My bf studied japanese in high school and often says “gambate!” (not sure of spelling) to be like. encouraging. I think it means roughly “let’s get this bread.” However, as someone who took spanish in high school, it always sounds like a command to me. And as near as I can tell, in spanish it would mean “go shrimp yourself.”
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I’m definitely not a fluent speaker, so I could be wrong, but here’s how I got there:
In Spanish, some (informal, I think?) commands are formed by dropping the “r” from the end of an infinitive verb. (Every infinitive verb in Spanish ends in r.) For example, “to run” is “correr.” If you want to tell someone to run, it’s “corre.” If you want to tell someone to do something to something/someone, you append a little pronoun thing to the end. From “besar” (to kiss) we get “bésame” (kiss me). From “cocinar” (to cook) we get “cocínalo” (cook it). From “callar” (to silence) we get “cállate” (silence yourself/shut up).
So, “gambate” immediately reminds me of “cállate,” which is a rude command. It would be formed from the verb “gambar” and the second person object “te” for “you/yourself.” But “gambar” isn’t a word in Spanish. However, “gamba” is a word. It means “shrimp.” So while it isn’t technically grammatically correct, in the same way we “verb” nouns in English, the noun “gamba” is being used in the place of a verb here. “Gambate” (or more properly “gámbate” to maintain the correct stress for both the Spanish and Japanese). “Go shrimp yourself.”
Native spanish speaker. You’re quite right about your linguistics here, and spanish speakers love to make up new words by conjugating existing words (at the very least, my parents do)
My confusion stemmed from never having heard the word gamba before. To my knowledge the word for shrimp is camarón
So i looked it up and apparently gamba actually means prawn. So it’s actually go prawn yourself
‘Autistics always love talking to other autistics, it’s always effortless for autistics to communicate with eachother’ stop!
telling!
lies!
Autistics are, basically, min-maxed relative to allistics. That means we do often get along with eachother EXTREMELY well and quickly, like, to an extent that wouldn’t make sense to allistics- but it ALSO means that when we don’t get along, that’s fucking it. We’re magnets. We either attract or repel, and fucking Nothing will change how we react to eachother after that
Two incompatible autistics are like two male betta fish in a teacup. Peace Was Never An Option
Any autist saying ‘that’s not true’ 100% guarantee hasn’t spent enough time with a variety of other autistics lmao
not understand second part so don’t know if agree but first part very very agree because
as nonverbal (ALL TIME) high support need autistic. many of me been badly treated by regular people. are themselves autistic, but speaking & lower support needs.
have been harrass, made fun, mocked, very ableist things, call fake, call slurs. have been ignore, leave out (because don’t realize people like me exist or on purpose exclude), silenced. infantized, demonized. call be privilege for be nonverbal & hsn. call me gatekeep because tell them not change our own words. be told should not exist, should be killed. all done by some speaking / LSN autistics who close minded refuse see autism different from them & refuse look at own advantage, who want believe they most oppressed so my mere exist threaten them.
and these. just tiny bit of what went through. both online and in person. with people don’t know, and with people me know. who told should call friend. who say they friend. who say they exactly like me because both autistic but convenient ignore how me nonverbal & hsn mean very very different experience. and who ignore me exist in first place, never respond to anything me say (through AAC), as if air.
honestly can say. all me semi/nonverbal/speaking mid/hsn autistic friends. experienced at least some of these.
not say allistics no do any this, or speaking lsn all bad, or nonverbal hsn people magical good people who no do bad thing.
“autistics always connect better with other autistics” is idea take from double empathy, which. entire thing of it, never ever included nonverbal & higher support need autistic people & people w ID during study or develop theory. it very sanitized sheltered view of “autism”.
all what bread say . not autism people at least not often pretend like really care just get right to kick and bully .
autism people done so so so much pretend like and then blame hate because , everyone else know these things can do these things can figure out . that means when gwydion make mistake is not really mistake , because is just bad person not try hard enough ! ( when . have more than just autism in brain . )
happen so much that destroy chance almost anyone actually become friend , because can not know that not secretly think these things and have plans hurt or try blackmail or anything .
so is the thing where apparently people have trouble telling “affect” and “effect” apart related to how english speakers love to slur all their vowels into an undifferentiated mess or is that a coincidence
[image ids: The first image is the flex tape meme, with the guy labeled “english” and the leaking water labeled “a e i o u” - the flex tape slapped over the leak in the second half of the meme is labeled with the IPA symbol for schwa.
The second image is the expanding brain meme, in five stages. the first stage is a vowel diagram, showing the point of articulation in the mouth for five (english) vowels: a e i o u. the diagram gets progressively more complicated moving down as IPA notation for various vowels are added…until the final diagram, where there is only one vowel, and it is schwa. end id.]
[Video summary: Dr. Lindsey uses video clips of native English speakers to demonstrate that native speakers usually pronounce words with elided vowels in unstressed positions. The schwa vowel sound is the most common sound in English.]
Currently, I sleep with a 15 lb blanket. It no longer feels particularly heavy. If I continue to pile more weighted blankets on top of it, I can get strong as fuck in my sleep. Eventually I’ll look like Goku just from sleeping
Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. A good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. Btw
Unironically waiting for the bus in the rain rn. Real ones know ✌️🌧️🚌☔
I’ve been here for over an hour soaking wet and pathetic and a truck driving by fully stopped in the street and reversed into the parking lot behind me. This older gentleman got it and came up to me and said “can I give you a gift?” And I asked “what’s that?” And he gave me an umbrella from his truck and left. Now I’m dryer. The world is full of kindness and beauty btw. If you even care. Message to all my sopping wet sweeties
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