a silly hc I like to think about is that most Jedi have a very vague concept of money.
sure they know what money is and get the principle of exchanging it for goods and services, but they grow up without having to use it in the Temple so what’s the point of knowing the price of a jogan fruit if you can just ask for one in the refectory?
The accounting department is traditionally run by non-Jedi because none of them knows how taxes work or what a balance sheet is. Accountants working at the Temple are the most exasperated people in the galaxy and their daily conversations are like,
“master Kenobi went on a 2-week long mission and didn’t ask for an allocation. Again. I wonder if he’s going to admit he forgot and call for help at one point or try to sell most of his clothes at the highest price possible. Can’t wait to read his report.”
“can someone explain to me how Master Fisto left a month ago with 400 credits and came back withtwice that amount? What did he do to earnthat much money?”
“remember that time Master Jinn asked us to send him the equivalent of the GDP of a small mid rim planet because he gambled on a Force-intuition? yeah, I don’t miss this guy.”
anyway my point was actually: Anakin Skywalker, who grew up working in a shop and has never paid a price he didn’t bargain for before, is one of the only Jedi the accounting department considers responsibleandpragmatic.
My favourite kind of thing in people learning a second or third language is the sliding scale of formality that you never notice before you hear someone using words that aren’t wrong, they very consicely describing the matter at hand, but not in a way that a native person would say it.
Like you’ve just moved somewhere and are having guests over for the first time, and you know your cat is going to be a pushy little shit, and now you have to figure out how to warn people about that. And you know exactlythe words you’d use in your ownlanguage, but you’ve never heard them here, so you pick up a dictionary, look up the exact words, learn how to pronounce them, compose the sentence and tweak it until the grammar is perfectly correct, and then memorise it, so you have it prepared.
And then next day you’re letting people in and it’s been exactly 30 seconds before little Masha is inside someone’s purse, hat, shirt, or altogether managing to be in every single person’s personal space at the same time, and you take out the sentence you composed: “Pardon, the cat is inevitable.”
Reddit germans refusing to use any anglicized words to the point of absurdity VS tumblr germans using the most abhorrent denglish you’ve ever seen
Here’s possibly the weirdest way to translate shitpost:
“in a nutshell” is at least a bit more obvious
Honorable mentions to that guy who translated “pov” into a row of words that couldn’t possibly sound any more unnatural:
That’s child’s play.
Take a look at the French reddit guidelines to avoid English words to the point of complete absurdity :
I can’t decide what’s funnier: insisting on making French versions of brand names like Youtube and Reddit, or for some reason, doing it to “Merica Fuck Yeah”
batman: … the function of the communication devices is-
superman, looking at stuff in orbit around the earth: huh! that’s the baseball my dad got me for christmas. you can still see neil allen’s signature on it.
superman, tears in his eyes: i never thought i’d see this again
op your tags are an absolutely necessary addition
[ID: screenshot of tumblr tags reading “#superman regularly knocks/punches/throws things into orbit only to find it again when he himself is in space #sometimes nasa makes him do a cleanup route of space and he finds like used towels. clothes. baseballs. a dinosaur toy he didn’t like #nasa’s like ‘wow its so great you helped us clean space trash. can you tell us the origin of what you found?’ #and he’s holding up like an old t-shirt ‘well the label says made in china’ #nasa: who do you think would send old t-shirts and children’s toys into space? #clark: well presumably a young alien who is learning how to deal with his powers and did not think nasa would drag him for it #clark kent #superman #superfam”]
Back in 1997 a group of guys decided to do research in to what people liked in music and hated in music. From that they engineered two songs. “most wanted music” witch was basically what pop music was at the time and “most unwanted music” and oh boy it’s undiscribable
