#polari — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #polari, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: s***post
Using two binary gender symbols to signify a single gender-neutral #toilet is common but seems strange to me (why not use some icon related to a toilet)?
Therefore, I propose these new meanings for the symbols, based on reading them in #Polari.
🚹🚺: omi-palone toilet, i.e. a toilet exclusively for gay men
🚺🚹: palone-omi toilet, i.e. a toilet exclusively for lesbiansAdopting this will greatly reduce queues! (At the expense of denying most people toilet service, probably breaking discrimination laws, and force-outing people, assuming it's enforceable.)
(This is a joke. Those who use these symbols, or set them as a standard: I do get that many customers will be looking for 🚹 or 🚺 symbols and this allows that.)
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Julian & Sandy — Keep Britain Bona
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"This is a parade pause," cried he, "which does one good; it gives such an elegance to misfortune! Another day I will do the same: I will sit in my library, in my nightcap and powdering gown, and give as much trouble as I can; -- or, perhaps, I may defer it, till Kitty runs away."
https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/115049574633000850
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Polari in DQB2: Article about the gay slang that shows up in the English localization of the game Dragon Quest Builders 2
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-coded-gay-jargon-in-dragon-quest-builders-2
#dragonquest #polari #games #slang #dqb2 #lgbt #gay #+ -
i feel like just reading the polari dictionary is giving me so much information about the time and the culture of its collection and use. like specifically, the amount of terms for certain things and the lack of terms for others, and the variety of specific words.
it's impossible to make conclusions without further context - are these remembered for a specific reason, what's regional, how were these collected? by whom, when?
but it's fascinating how much a snapshot of language can still reveal.
#gayhistory #polari #lgbqtqhistory -
New YouTube video from Olly Alexander:
✨ ‘When We Kiss’ is out today 🫦 !! #newmusic #polari
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2024: book sixty-nine (audiobook seventeen) #bookstodon #audiobooks #fiction #metafiction #richardmilward #maneatingtypewriter #polari #nice
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There's a guy downstairs sanding down my parquet floor who has a logo on his van proudly proclaiming that he's a "Certified Bona Contractor".
I'm sure fans of Polari will find that reassuring.
He seems to be doing a pretty bona job so far, at any rate.
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I was today years old when I learned that #ACDC means #bisexual in #Polari.
And just a few days before that I learned that the movie “Inauguration of the pleasure dome” used #GlagoliticMass by #Czech composer #LeošJanáček as soundtrack, which is extremely interesting for me due to family stories that are connected to all of this in a way.
And - by the way - there’s a beer named #TarasBoulba.This was a great weekend.
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 translation: Discussion on Reddit about an amazing localization of a Japanese videogame with lots of clever slang
https://www.reddit.com/r/DQBuilders/comments/cg1sd8/who_did_the_english_translation_for_the_us_release/
#dragonquest #translation #language #polari #games #dqb2 #dqb #+ -
calls a chat client « #polari », does not acknowledge the choice of name in the docs
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What a shame, on the other hand, that @paulbaker had his Mastodon account on the now defunct mastodon.lol server and no longer seems to have an account in the Fediverse. I'm very much looking forward to meeting him: he's famous among corpus linguists for his corpus-linguistic work, of course, but he has also done fascinating work on #Polari, a secret language/slang used by gay men in Britain into the 1970s. 1/2
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« A new version of #Polari, a terrific looking #IRC client for #Linux desktops, is out » by @omglinux
› https://www.omglinux.com/linux-irc-client-polari-updated/ -
Proud Pink Sky (Redfern Jon Barrett @Redfern ) – In an #AltHistory, the end of WWII sees the formation of Berlin as an independent #gay state with #polari as an official language. Now 24 million strong and a glittering futuristic metropolis, it is divided into an assortment of gay and lesbian districts (Twinkstadt, Diesel, Paw, Adonis…) including a hetero district for the immigrant straight labour and Q; which houses those who don’t fit into the strict categories of Gay and Lesbian. Those who as #bisexual, #trans+ and #polyamorous are seen as diluting the gay state and a fifth column for heterosexuals. Same-sex monogamous marriage is a requirement for full citizenship in Berlin.
The story follows the teen William who flees the homophobic persecution of Britain with his lover but struggles to find a place in the city’s rigid hierarchy. Meanwhile, Cissie and her family move to the city’s heterosexual district while her husband takes construction work. But while he falls into religious propaganda, Cissie explores life in the illegal trans district as tensions mount between the state and its undesirable residents.
I have to say, I’ve long been enamoured by the idea of a gay homeland to feel safe in, as flawed as the idea is (and have occasionally wanted to write a novel on this myself). To have this played out but the state centred on the community’s internal biphobia, transphobia etc. is very uncomfortable. The fact the city’s majority wants to be seen as normal and respectable enough to be accepted by the wider world (despite the distinction never mattering to bigots) sounded very familiar to groups like Mattachine, those who want to throw the radicals under the bus and conform to cishet values as much as possible. Put on a suit and tie, get married and be as non-threatening as possible rather than burn down the system that oppresses us. I never imagined a gay state being anything other than a revolutionary one and this is both innovative and depressing/sobering at the same time.
Then that the rest of the world never progressed on gay rights while everyone fled to Berlin is also a key part of why the gay nation idea has always been a risk - if you all leave, how will things improve for the kids born after you? We’re not free unless every queer child is born into that freedom.
Yet at the same time, the arguments for the safety found inside the nation used by various characters are particularly poignant in today’s climate, even if those most in need of it are those who are discriminated against in Barrett’s Berlin. All this really serves to underline the importance of unity within the community as the one thing that has got us through our darkest eras.
All in all, it is a fascinating and engaging book (especially for me as someone who has long been intrigued by the idea and is a nerd for #queer history, Berlin, and Polari). My only note is that there was only a partial resolution and I feel there is far more potential to the world created that is touched upon by this book. Like seeing a town through a train window as you whizz by. I’d love to read more exploring other aspects and dynamics within the city, and different eras of its history.
Barrett is on Masto (tagged at the top) and has a trailer for the book in their feed.
Fun factoid, there have been minor attempts to create a gay nation, such as the attempted takeover of Alpine County, California. None have really got very far at all though. But our migration to our communities has been common enough throughout our history so I wouldn’t say it is implausible that it could still happen.
And as always, support your local queer bookshop. They’re our little Berlins (without the dystopic element); Gays the Word and Common Press in London.
#Bookstodon #Books #QueerBooks #LGBTQ+ #TransBooks #Transgender #SciFi
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A spot of #Polari in your 70s #DoctorWho!
Carnival of Monsters (1973)
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"Oven Bottom Muffins"
Probably all the Carry On films I was exposed to as a kid, but this just sounds like it should mean something naughty or cheeky.
Or it was a phrase in Polari. Imagining it being said in a Kenneth Williams voice ...
#muffins #DoubleEntendre #bottom #OvenBottomMuffins #fnarfnar #polari #ooher #ooherrmissus
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The #queer origins of the word "zhuzh"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/style/jeuje-zhoosh-zhuzh.html
(Found while googling it to figure out how to spell it!)
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Working through my ever-growing backlog of podcast eps, and I'm blown away (again) by @mattbaume's Sewers of Paris; specifically this episode with Prof. Paul Baker on #Polari, #Section28, #AgathaChristie, and #AreYouBeingServed. #podcast #recommendation
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@rooster Are you in the UK? I'm of an age to remember 'Round the Horne 'on BBC radio. They used a lot of #Polari which was, and in some quarters still is, the coded language for LBGT folk. The most rememberd line not Polari 'cos I've forgotten most, is "o hello I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy" there is a whole web site which is a peek into the UK's under the radar history. Be well friend, stay safe. xxP
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Congrats to the majority of you who answered <Being complimentary> where 'dolly' = nice/attractive and 'ecaf' is backslang for face.
The following short video from the #BBC gives a general explanation of #Polari
And the video below is a short excerpt from the 1960's #BBC #comedy #radio show #RoundTheHorne featuring the use of Polari.
As with a lot of English comedy, it's all about delivery amply demonstrated here by Kenneth Williams.
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#Polari first came about in the theatre and the #gay #subculture in #Britain in the 1950s and 1960s.
Born largely out of a need for discretion in a potentially hostile environment, it provided a convenient shorthand for #LGBTQ communication and was popularised by #KennethWilliams in the #BBC #radio #comedy show #RoundTheHorne during the 1960's.
Hence, if an #LGBTQ speaker of Polari said to you that you had a 'dolly ecaf', they would be:
