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30 | they/them | 🔞 | red fox, occasional fennec | strong opinions on spirals vs concentric circles | cartwheeling up & down the animacy hierarchy
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This is what people mean when they talk about love languages, right?
“Zargulla is amazingly rich in directives to domestic animals—which is not all that surprising given the cultural focus on animal herding, and the variety of animals bred (which include sheep, oxen, cows, goats, and fowl). Amha (MS-b) divides the directives into 'dispersals' (telling animals to move away from a certain location) and summons (telling them to come nearer to the speaker). Summons involve repetition, lengthening of vowels, and 'what appears to be a more friendly or normal intonation'. In contrast, dispersals…” “…involve 'exaggeratedly raised voice, and the forms are pronounced with a higher speed. Special forms used for oxen, cows, goats and other animals are listed in 9.18:” [table 9.18, listing examples of Zargulla summon and dispersal commands to various domesticated animals]
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Best way I can summarize my whole deal is that this is really the proper way to interact with me:
Cover of “Imperatives and Commands” from the Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory series
October 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM