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palin-tropos

gently takes the disco elysium fandom by the hand anybody who needs to hear this listen. stop thinking of harry’s bender in terms of “misbehavior”. he is severely suicidal and most of his outrageous actions are either attempts or, perhaps more tragically, trying to stop himself from attempting. he manages to save his own life by doing many of the things that he’s shamed for, like selling his gun, and inducing some kind of seizure from drugs and booze because he knows he’s had these amnesia episodes before and forgetting what made him want to die could be the only way out 

these are awful, last-ditch efforts from a man on the precipice and I genuinely have nothing but admiration for the strength it took to humiliate himself further so that he could have a second chance at life 

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Harry’s little speech impediment when he talks to the corpse is really cute and also sexy. It’s so charming. I love him and his jaw problems.

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Returning here to say he has trouble with the “th” and “s” sounds, and he just omits the s almost always. Also classical “f” or “v” sound instead of “th”. Sometimes omits “d” as well, seems hard consonants are not his style (unless you believe he also makes the necktie voice, which is VERY FUNNY).

So, Harry has trouble with pronouncing “sibilants”, and what he does is called “deletion” which, as I said before, he kinda just puffs out air or replaces the harsher sounds with a less frictive sound (hence the ‘f’).

((want to express that I am Canadian and I’m coming at this from a child psychology background and not a linguist background (I do speak both English and French though and I’m learning Korean!) before I continue.))

This is specifically an articulation disorder. Some or all of this is a choice that his VA has decided on, on account of it not existing to the same degree in the other characters Mikee Goodman voices (and I didn’t hear any in his interviews either but that’s on my memory alone).

Now, the game says Harry’s jaw twinge from polio affects the way he speaks. This I suppose means his speech sound disorder is either structural or motor, most likely motor since his jaw problems indicate compression on his nerves. Polio also affects your nervous system and can do so for years after the infection.

Harry definitely never had speech therapy and his speech may be further complicated when his jaw twinge acts up. Anyways I think it’s a cute and clever little detail that you can really only hear through Limbic system, Ancient Reptilian Brain, the corpse, or through Karaoke.


anyways feel free to correct me on this, speech pathologists and linguistic lovers!

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i'm currently in a master's program for speech language pathology and i just finished my classes on speech sound disorders and speech science, so i found this pretty interesting! i had to go rewatch the conversation with the hanged man cause it had been a while. i'm far from an expert, but i think the "th" (/θ/ and /ð/) -> /f/ or /v/ is a dialectal thing as opposed to an articulation issue. there's certain english accents that do it a lot. i'm american and terrible at knowing proper names for all the various english accents, but for a comparison i think of rose from doctor who. she has this kind of accent too.

english sibilants are /s/, /z/, /ʃ/ ("sh"), and /ʒ/ (spelled sometimes "j" or "zh" - this is the first consonant in jean vicquemare's name). from what i saw, the hanged man was using /z/ and /ʃ/ fine. i didn't notice any /ʒ/ words but i may have missed them. i did notice the /s/ deletion sometimes. i think it was almost always at the end of words, and often as part of a consonant cluster (like "-ts" becoming just "-t"). he pronounced it fine in initial and medial positions in words. so yeah! it sounds like he has a little trouble with /s/-final consonant clusters at the ends of words!

so i also went to go read the "law jaw" thought again to see how the game described it, since this is the only in-game text on harry having a speech impediment. my theory is that it has to do with some difficulty pronouncing /l/, but unfortunately the comparison to the hanged man as harry's actual voice ends here, because the hanged man pronounces all his /l/'s fine. he doesn't ever say "law" either so i couldn't check to see if it was maybe just that word.

according to the thought, when saying the word "law", harry's jaw shifts a bit sideways and the word sounds "oddly guttural and low". from what i know about articulation and the way sounds are formed in the vocal tract (as well as just testing it out loud myself), i actually don't think shifting the jaw to the side really does much to the sound at all. to be fair, i wouldn't expect the devs to know exactly how articulation issues happen.

i know this is definitely shifting away from canon here, but i think it's a tongue issue, not a jaw issue. if harry says "law" in a weird way, it's almost certainly the tongue that he's having a motor issue with, since that is the main articulator used in that word. the jaw and the lips aren't doing much other than keeping the mouth open. if the tongue is in the wrong place for the vowel, then obviously the vowel would sound different or distorted, and if it's different enough then that would change the whole word. so while that could be the issue with the pronunciation, i think it's the less likely option. i think maybe what is different about harry's pronunciation is that he's making a dark /l/ at the start of "law", when it would normally be a light /l/.

english has both dark and light /l/, it's just that light /l/ is usually pre-vocalic ("lake", "look"), while dark /l/ is usually post-vocalic ("roll", "feel"). the difference in how they're articulated is that the dark /l/ has the tongue higher up in the back, so it almost becomes a velar sound (even though the tip of the tongue still goes to the alveolar ridge). both sounds can appear in the same word on occasion, like in "lull". if you try to pronounce "law" with a dark /l/, i think "guttural and low" is not too far off in describing how it sounds!

this is even further speculation, but maybe harry has trouble with the /l/ in the word "law" specifically because the vowel (/ɔ/ or /ɑ/, depending on dialect) is a back vowel, meaning the tongue has to be further back - ie closer to where it would be for a dark /l/. however it's also a low vowel, meaning the tongue is low as well, so idk if this really holds up. but this kind of coarticulation (when a sound takes on features of a sound before or after it) is a very common thing in the production of speech, both in error patterns and in natural, perceptually correct speech. so it seemed like a fun idea to theorize on lol. if this were in fact the case, then harry would have a similar issue with other /l/ words containing similar vowels, like "lot" or "lost".

sorry for rambling so long. again, i am just a student so maybe this is all completely wrong. i enjoyed thinking through it though.

linguistics disco elysium harry du bois yeah i think analyzing his voice in the proper context of lenval brown's natural accent is important any british speech language pathologists in the audience /joking but am i
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This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science

Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower

The frog Xenohyla truncata.ALT

The creamy fruit and nectar-rich flowers of the milk fruit tree are irresistible to Xenohyla truncata, a tree frog native to Brazil. On warm nights, the dusky-colored frogs take to the trees en masse, jostling one another for a chance to nibble the fruit and slurp the nectar. In the process, the frogs become covered in sticky pollen grains—and might inadvertently pollinate the plants, too. It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported last month in Food Webs.

Scientists long thought only insects and birds served as pollinators, but research has revealed that some reptiles and mammals are more than up to the task. Now, scientists must consider whether amphibians are also capable of getting the job done. It’s likely that the nectar-loving frogs, also known as Izecksohn’s Brazilian tree frogs, are transferring pollen as they move from flower to flower, the authors say. But more research is needed, they add, to   confirm that frogs have joined the planet’s pantheon of pollinators.

Source.

Source: science.org
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