rishab not rishabh

assamese american author, student, linguist, artist, science and cultural study enthusiast. he/him 🍉

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

one thing i've realized about a lot of religions is that, unless you are in a position of political power, being revered as a sacred or divine being is usually a form of dehumanization in and of itself

[aria the ninth @An_Aria_Blooms]

I think you all have a very Catholic Church-ified idea of ancient religions and ancient peoples. It can both be true for a person to be revered and prostituted, revered and sacrificed at the altar, revered and shunned. All of these were common outside of trans women.

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

instead of saying y is not a vowel, we should find the longest english word with no vowels, only syllabic consonants. e.g. "bull" gets pronounced with a syllabic l (i.e. as [bl̩]) in many dialects, so it has no vowels. that being said, it has four letters, but only two segments.

[Rare Facts @rare__facts]

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

[Yuni @Lycorysia]

I'm crying some poor naga girl who has nothing to do with the argument is getting her instagram doxxed cuz losers wanna debate about what ethnicities are Indian or not on twitter dot com 😭

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

northeastern indians genuinely break people's brains

[𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑎 ☀️🇮🇷🇺��� @earthtoroseyta]

THEY TRIED TO THROW AN EAST ASIAN IN THERE 😭😭😭😭

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

i also get to say "erm i'm actually northeast indian, we have different cuisine" as an excuse

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

me getting the most stereotypical dishes from north indian restaurants (palak paneer) because it's my favorite food anyway ✌️😗

[can i be loved genuinely @day6core]

no hate to u but to my fellow diaspora can we take the chicken tikka masala and garlic naan stereotype back from the white people bc this is what im also contributing to the group order

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

japanese is in the former category so it would break the pattern but there still could be a broader correlation, idk

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

all i can say atm (i haven't read many studies on this) is that i wonder if it has any correlation to which languages tend to fully borrow loanwords and which languages tend to calque them

[Zany @zanyfen]

Linguists seriously need a study on why some languages adopted six seven as the literal transliteration of the English (eg Russian children saying siks seven) vs the translation (eg roku nana in Japanese)

[doyichi⁶⁷🐚 @airfilter32]

Northeast Indians are just as Indian as anyone else in the country. There are around 60 million Indians with similar phenotypes.

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

damn she has like every actor in here

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Madonna premieres new song “Danceteria” in ‘Confessions II - The Film’ now on YouTube.

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

haven't they done that since the beginning though...? what mysterious prior era of fandom are you hearkening to where they DIDN'T do that?

[୨୧ ⋆ emin's gf @idcyaaaar]

fandoms don't just support celebrities anymore 😭 they create entire personalities, friendships, rivalries and narratives for people they've never met.

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

my parents mainly only used the term to joke about us diaspora assamese kids being american-born confused desis (abcd) and everyone who isn't assamese mainly only uses it to refer to northwestern indian culture so i've never ended up really identifying as desi

[Icarus @ashowhatt]

absolutely loathe the term desi

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

"monarch" exists, as do words like "liege" and "sovereign", but "lord" is like very explicitly male

[aether 🎱 @mythmakernami]

the nonbinary version of king/queen is lord btw…

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

it often leads to a) americans misinterpreting people who say something isn't racism as downplaying its severity or b) from a more international standpoint, downplaying the severity of racism bc it doesn't fit into one of the other molds that are more internationally understood

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

I hate how we refer to xenophobia, jingoism, religious persecution, colorism, casteism, and less hierarchical kinds of ethnic conflicts as "racism" when they are all different things and most of them are distinct from racism. It leads to people downplaying or outright

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

ignoring elements of bigotry and systems of oppression that don't fit into the "racism" mold (pseudoscientific ideas of skin color and genetic stock and such) because people don't actually know of any other way to refer to them and so basically don't acknowledge they exist.

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

but in spanish, the fact that estadounidense only refers to the us and not also mexico isn't considered to be indicative of the view that the us is more important than mexico or vice versa, so it really is just a difference in language

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

"only usa people call themselves american, the rest of the world calls everyone from the americas american" is so untrue because basically only hispano/lusophones do that, a lot of the actual rest of the world outside latin america calls people from the usa "american" 😭

[rishab not rishabh @the_authorling]

it's also interesting how there are countries other than just the usa use a name like "united states of X" but in latin american spanish, "estadounidense" only refers to people from the us, not mexicans, even though mexico is called "estados unidos mexicanos"