mayrin

Раз уж Дневники штормят, и народ начал обустраивать убежище здесь, почему бы не вспомнить пароль от своего древнего аккаунта) Ну, и чтобы в записи висело что-то красивенькое:


Другие тесты и гадания от Шувани

Fandom: Jeeves and Wooster
Rating: G
Length: 111 words
Notes: This just came out of somewhere. A quick sketch, no real meaning. Oh, and there is allusion to a slightly slasher theme in there :D

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LOL, absolutely priceless XD

Professor Tom Riddle stepped into the Great Hall, his wand out and a ferocious look on his face. It did not escape notice by the crowd that his arm was covered in not so human colored blood.

Harry saw Dumbledore's twinkling eyes turn harsh and his smile disappear as Riddle entered the Hall. He stood in a swift motion, but was too slow to speak before Riddle's voice echoed through the Hall.

"There was a troll. In the dungeons. Thought you ought to know."

Extract from "The Other Side of the Coin" by Zennith6.
 

OMG, Russian Sherlock fandom managed to frighten English-speaking tumblrers.

Sherlock: A Study in Borscht.

kirilledinaction decided to translate some of the jokes made about impending official Russian dub here and made them seem like real thing. 

( jokes under cut )

 

Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
By GUY DEUTSCHER
Published: August 26, 2010
The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.

Quite an interesting article. Several quotes about gender in different languages:

"Let’s take genders again. Languages like Spanish, French, German and Russian not only oblige you to think about the sex of friends and neighbors, but they also assign a male or female gender to a whole range of inanimate objects quite at whim. What, for instance, is particularly feminine about a Frenchman’s beard (la barbe)? Why is Russian water a she, and why does she become a he once you have dipped a tea bag into her?"

 "When I speak English, I may say about a bed that “it” is too soft, but as a native Hebrew speaker, I actually feel “she” is too soft. “She” stays feminine all the way from the lungs up to the glottis and is neutered only when she reaches the tip of the tongue".

"Of course, all this does not mean that speakers of Spanish or French or German fail to understand that inanimate objects do not really have biological sex — a German woman rarely mistakes her husband for a hat, and Spanish men are not known to confuse a bed with what might be lying in it". 

One of the reasons I prefer English language to French is that I don't have to learn which thing is "she", which is "he", and whether gender is different from that in Russian))

Everything is bound to end.
Anything as enjoyable as "Jeeves and Wooster" TV series is bound to end quite fast, no matter how you try to make it last)) I've read the books long time ago and love them dearly, but watching these fellows come alive on the screen is something else entirely! Fry and Laurie managed perfect impersonation of the book characters and I just can't imagine Jeeves or Wooster looking like anyone else. Also I can't look at the sore expression on the face of House and not see Bertie's trademark gobsmacked one XD
Well, no one says I have to put DVDs away right now, so I'll go ahead and start watching anew))

Author: mayrin
Pairing: Musashi/Hiruma
Rating: PG
Language: Russian
Length: ~400 words
Disclaimer: mine is just the plot however small it is.

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