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Thanks for the resource

After reading it I was wondering about Mia

I am basically monolingual (English) with Canadian core French (fairly useless) and some Korean. I lived in France for 3 months and spent the whole time hearing my name pronounced wrong because it has a "th" sound. This made me wonder, what would be a universally pronouncible name?

From what I know: can't be an L/R name because some languages don't distinguish that boundary, no J because some languages don't have that sound, no TH obviously, really avoid H in general. So I think, heavy on the vowels, what about Adam? My colleague who speaks Japanese informed me that in Japanese M must be paired with a vowel sound, so Adam was impossible but Aiden would work.

So I was thinking, Miyo, maybe Eve? I know that sometimes a word will have a different meaning in another language, but let's ignore that. What name would be easily pronouncible in the most languages? It doesn't have to follow name rules in every language, just be a normal name from a language that other people can say without distorting. Is there a chart somewhere that shows sound overlap for languages? Does every language have M? I'm so curious.

All the "Austen novels explained badly" Tabloid Covers

Most of the original text is from this post by @redwooding

Re-did the Pride & Prejudice one to look more tabloid-y and changed John Thorpe's caption to the funny version. Note: gigs during the regency period was a type of carriage.

Fake tabloid cover for "The Meryton Mirror" with close up if Keira Knightley playing Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice 2005 with big yellow text in all caps that says "Misanthropic smartass keeps rejecting men!"

To her right is a photo of Mrs. Bennet with a quote beneath: "No one cares about my poor nerves!"

In a red box below there is a bulleted list with two points in yellow text in all caps that reads, "One of the rejects bails out her wayward sister" and "she marries him!"

The lower right has a small portrait shot of Matthew Macfadyen playing Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice 2005 from the scene where he is standing in the rain. Black text in a bright yellow box below his picture reads, "Filthy rich jerk reforms, bails out worst enemy and crush's wayward sister, and scores with crush!"

Small white text in lower right corner reads, "text from tumblr post by @redwooding" and "photoshopped on Photopea by @taciturn-nerd"

Characters from the 2009 adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma photoshopped to look like a tabloid magazine cover. The magazine name is "Highbury Herald".

Highlighted story in a small rectangle at the top has Mr. Knightley's photo with the headline, "Rich man waits for his hot neighbor's schemes to blow up in her face" and "when they do he scores with her!"

Top right has a small photo of Miss Bates with a circle that says "Exclusive Interview" and the caption "Humiliated in front of her closest friends" under her photo.

The main large headline under the magazine name says "Rich, tactless busybody hurts nearly everyone!" Underneath is a photo of Emma Woodhouse. To her right is a photo of Emma and Mr. Knightley kissing with the caption "feels ashamed and apologizes and marries Mr. Always Right!"

In the lower left is a small photo of Mr. and Mrs. Elton looking smug and a photo of Harriet Smith crying with the caption to the right that says "Newlyweds terrorize teen over embarrassing heartbreak!"

Small white text in lower right corner reads, "text from tumblr post by @redwooding" and "photoshopped on Photopea by @taciturn-nerd"

Characters from the 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility photoshopped to look like a tabloid magazine cover. The magazine name is "Devonshire Daily".

Small highlighted story at the top has a cropped photo of Colonel Brandon with the text "Rich depressed man waits for his crush's bad relationship to blow up in her face" and "when it does, he scores with her!" There is also a small photo of Marianne Dashwood.

Main story in the middle has the large headline, "Egotistically romantic teen ignores dadbod for wildman!" and two bulleted items below say "ignores sister's misery" and "gets rejected by wildman" with a photo of Marianne Dashwood and smaller black and white photo of Willoughby.

Lower left has a photo of Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars with the caption, "sister scores too!"

Lower right has a photo of Marianne marrying Colonel Brandon with the caption, "Devastated, recovers, and marries dadbod!"

Small white text in lower right corner reads, "text from tumblr post by @redwooding" and "photoshopped on Photopea by @taciturn-nerd"

Characters from Love and Friendship 2016, the movie based on Jane Austen's novel, Lady Susan, photoshopped like a tabloid magazine cover. The magazine name is "The Churchill Post".

The top headline reads, "Infamous flirt seduces married men across England!" with a subheader that reads, "and her sister-in-law's younger brother!" There is a large photo of Lady Susan to the right with a smaller photo of Reginald De Courcy to her lower left with a smaller headline to his right that reads, "Gullible man engaged to serial homewrecker" with two bullet points below. The bullet points are "Weds the teenage daughter instead!" and "Mother marries daughter's ex-fiancé!"

A tall rectangle in the lower right has two photos stacked. One is of Frederica Vernon above a photo of James Martin. The headline above them says "Mother tried to marry me to an idiot!"

A quote underneath Reginald reads, "I didn't think I would fall for her tricks!" with a smiling photo of Lady Susan below that. In the lower right corner is a photo of Frederica and Reginald smiling and standing next to each other.

The lower right has small text that reads "inspired by Tumblr post by @redwooding" and "photoshopped on Photopea by @tacturn-nerd"

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lol pride and prejudice jane austen Emma sense and sensibility mansfield park lady susan persuasion northanger abbey summaries of jane austen novels photoshopped as tabloid headlines created with permission from @redwooding

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god-made-it

1 year ago

a meme

first panel is someone looking at some text that says "i write and create a new character"

next panel the person blinks, and text next to them that says [three immersive daydreams later]

final panel the person opens their eyes surprised to see text that says "they’re now way more important to the story than before and have a complex backstory because i like them too much"

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writers on tumblr same writing is hard

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god-made-it

2 years ago

True. But if you listen long enough and expand your definition of related you will find a thread of coherency weaving through out

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neurodivergent screenshot neurodivergent joys is this not normal what do normal people do anyway

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god-made-it

1 year ago

Long time no art!

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space 3d art retro futuristic starship spacecraft hard science fiction Hard Sci Fi

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god-made-it

3 years ago

“It is our responsibility as scientists … to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed. It’s OK to say, “I don’t know."” ― Richard Feynman

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god-made-it

2 years ago

why aren't there more mysteries that take place in nursing homes & retirement communities. i want to watch a group of deranged retirees-cum-amateur-detectives combine their powers of:

decades of life experience

boredom-fueled busybody shamelessness

access to the most gossipy next-door-neighbors in existence

"I am too old to be arrested and/or give a shit" attitude

and solve crimes. this should be an enormous subgenre.

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