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[Brixton @Brixton]

힘줬어..😊

[roku @rokuxvii]

pro tip just get in shape so you can justify having unusual/weird hobbies

[Brixton @Brixton]

what

[robin @legendpoe]

category is: straight wasians that are not chopped and not queerbaiting thats worth gooning over

[Brixton @Brixton]

your first fascist experience is your body
@sighswoon

[Brixton @Brixton]

@moonpetal76 my first name

[Brixton @Brixton]

@0x49fa98 Steroids are way more accessible than they used to be, yeah, and use is more widespread than ever, but there are also plenty of crazy physiques that are totally natural.

People really underestimate how big a difference genetics can play with regards to building a nice body.

[Brixton @Brixton]

Japanese is full of homophones like you mentioned, but I feel like they're not leveraged quite the same way as they are in English poetry. Since Japanese has a writing system that completely disambiguates its homophones, poets often play with its specificity more than its ambiguity.

For example, the word "thought" in Japanese is pronounced "omoi" おもい. This happens to share its pronunciation with the word for "heavy" おもい (重い). But, I don't see poets play with that homophonic ambiguity much.

In Japanese, you almost never simply write "omoi" phonetically, but rather write it with a Chinese character (usually "思い", where 思 represents the idea of "thought"). But beyond that, there are a few other options you can choose that offer a bit more nuance:

思い standard
想い rarer, slightly emotional
憶い very rare/literary, feels more nostalgic

Each of these are pronounced "omoi", and all, in essence, are the "same word", but because of the associations each of those Chinese characters have in other words (consideration 思考; "imagination" 想像; "reminisce" 追憶; etc.), they all bring a slightly different nuance.

[Brixton @Brixton]

@hokuto_tatsumi ようこそ！！

[Brixton @Brixton]

backpack and biceps

[Brixton @Brixton]

올해는 더 단단하고 크게 ❤️‍🔥

[Brixton @Brixton]

@Discord61379352 it’s a posing room haha

[Brixton @Brixton]

flexxxxx

[Brixton @Brixton]

@QiaochuYuan Tanha (tṛ́ṣṇā त���ष्णा) originally meant "thirst" (and is actually directly related to the English word)

In Punjabi, the word for "love" (teh ਤੇਹ) derives directly from this. Not sure where this idea that it originally meant "fused to" is coming from.

[Brixton @Brixton]

@JoshuaDKaye_ jupiter in scorpio, trine mars 🙊

[Brixton @Brixton]

@visakanv naturally✨

[Brixton @Brixton]

@hungry_ghost_ @balefulrays just curious to hear your line of thinking (as someone w/ this placement), but what makes you feel like 12th house sun would elicit this response/immunity to ego-death?

[Brixton @Brixton]

too small

[Brixton @Brixton]

You dodged the おも/어머 part, but that's fine. I'm not particularly convinced of a-bi and pi-ko being related either to be frank.

But there's a wealth of perfectly solid cognates to sift through if you take the time to look into it. I'm not going continue this over X.

Some of the greatest living historical linguists of Japanese and Korean support the hypothesis (Bjarke, Whitman, Martin, Unger, to name a few); just because it has not been definitely proven doesn't mean it won't ever be. Those of us who find the evidence collected so far convincing will keep digging, and people like you who push back will help us make sure our arguments are robust!

[Brixton @Brixton]

@ShirokaneChoja @TambovGlasser @vintagemapstore Japanese also has the word “omo” (母).

아비 (the older word for father in Korean) also has a proposed cognate through Old Japanese “piko” (彦) (pi + ko).

The point I’m trying to make is just that it’s an open question and there are decent arguments in favour of a relationship.

[Brixton @Brixton]

I mean… what I just gave you was a list of words that have a proposed common etymology. I wasn’t talking about grammar at all.

But while we’re on the topic, function word cognates (grammar words) are actually more reliable as evidence of two languages’ relationship than shared content words (which get borrowed between unrelated languages all the time).

Japanese and Korean have plenty of proposed content word cognates:
섬/しま, 바다/わた, 곰/くま, 닭/とり, etc.

But it also has proposed function word cognates:
interrogative -까/-か, plural -들/-たち, past tense -ㅆ-/-し (Old Japanese)