Just Finished Episode 40 Part 2 And-

You've probably already done this, but what is the difference between "por" and "para"?

So this is an extremely important (and honestly really confusing) topic. First I have to say that in general, para is used more for a recipient of something and por usually means there's some kind of exchange happening

That's not the whole of it, but in everyday Spanish you're probably going to see para as "for" or "in order to", while por is usually "in exchange for", "per", or there's some kind of transaction or exchange

Now I'm going to go into more of the differences - but this tag also has more information overall

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First I'm going to talk about para because there's less things it's used for. Linguistically, para came from por + a... so it is literally "for" + "to" which is "in order to"

for / in order to [like para hacerlo "to do it" or "in order to do it"... or para que + subjunctive is "so that (something can happen)"]

recipients - specifically things like indirect objects, like sending letters to someone aka "that letter is FOR them"

opinions - para mí is literally "for me" but it comes out like "in my opinion"; but this can be used with any object pronoun para mí, para ti, para ella, para él, para nosotros etc.

when things are due - especially in school settings you'll see things like para el lunes which comes out like "on Monday" or "due Monday"

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With por you'll find a lot more meanings, and some of them are idiomatic like set expressions

First let me touch on a lot of the idiomatic ones because they're usually obvious and easy to list:

¿por qué? = why?

porque = because

por favor = please

por ejemplo = for example

por cierto = by the way

por ciento = percent [lit. "per cent" or "for each hundred"; as an example cien por ciento is "100%" which is used just like English either as literal mathematics or saying "totally" or "completely", or in reviews that something is very good] el porcentaje = percentage

el porvenir = the future, "what is to come"

por casualidad = by chance

por suerte = by luck, by chance

por consiguiente = therefore, consequently

por desgracia = unfortunately

por las buenas = "the easy way"

por las malas = "the hard way"

por fin = at last

por lo tanto = therefore

por lo visto = apparently

por todas partes = "(happening) everywhere", "all over the place"

por doquier = everywhere, every which way

por si acaso = just in case

por otro lado = on the other hand

And a few others but these are probably ones you'll see a lot - also for times of the day, when things are happening you use por - like por la mañana is "in the morning"

You might see something like mañana por la mañana "tomorrow morning" or mañana por la noche "tomorrow night" - por with a time of day means it's happening then. And it's almost always mañana, tarde or noche for "morning", "afternoon/evening", and "night"

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The other uses of por are a little less intuitive sometimes:

"through" - por el pasillo is "through the hallway", or por la ciudad is "through the city"

"by" / "around" - this is based on approximation but in directions it's used with estar, like está por ahí "it's over there", or está por allá "it's around over that way"...... or just saying like está por la biblioteca can be used sometimes to be like "it's around the library"

substitution - por is used like replacement or exchanging for "instead of"; like hacer algo por alguien can be "to do something for someone" in the sense of "so they don't have to" or "in someone's stead"; it gets translated as "to do something for someone" but it's not benefit it's instead of

with substitution you also see it for refunds and bartering and transactions in general

exchange - very similar to substitution, you'd see this for currency like un café por un dólar "a/one coffee for a dollar"; or if bartering something like tres manzanas por tres naranjas "three apples for three oranges"

"per" - just like substitution, this is a kind of exchange - but like por hora is "per hour", or por kilómetro is "per kilometer"

multiplication - por is translated as "times" or "multiplied by" in mathematics; you'll see tres por cinco as 3 x 5. In fact, por as "by" is so common in math that people abbreviate por as X...... so for example; x k? is por qué? in abbreviations [in math the common words are más "plus" (dos más dos is 2+2), menos "minus" (dos menos dos is 2-2), por "by/times" (dos por dos is 2x2), and then entre is "divided by" (dos entre dos is 2÷2) but literally "between"... but you can see dividir por/en/entre in general, it can depend on the country]

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There are times when you can see one or the other though. And they are different:

¿por qué? = why? el porqué = the reason, the reason why, "the why", motive

¿para qué? = for what purpose?, to what end?

Using por qué as "why" is much simpler and a general question, but para qué is a specific question like "what do they hope to achieve" is the feeling behind it

Both get translated as "why"

Next is votar

votar por (alguien) = to vote for someone, to vote in favor of someone

votar para (algo) = to vote for something

This is usually more cut and dried, but votar por tends to be used specifically with candidates

votar para normally comes with nouns or with verbs, but not people

In other words votar por quién "vote for who?" vs. votar para qué "vote for what?"

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Others are a little weirder like para siempre is "forever" and that's the one you see the most

You can see por siempre in poetry/lyrics and it's like "in perpetuity" or "everlasting", it just comes out very fancy"

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The other that's a little confusing is with directions; para can mean "up to", while por can mean "going through"

We were taught things like para el parque is "going in the direction of the park" or "going up to the park"... while por el parque means "through the park" like crossing through it or going past it

para in directions can sometimes be used like hacia "toward", while por is an intention to go through or "cross"

As a saxaphone player, I understand this deeply

bari saxthur got lucky in that kayne didn’t write him a part in The Wager so he didn’t have to go to the world’s longest and ugliest rehearsals

HOLLY FUUUUUUCK

WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST LISTEN TO

Episode 52 spoilers:

Sir Vale and the general decline of the rest of the party, the brief realization that nothing they did mattered at the end, that the map led to nowhere and they were not ment to come back from the trip. I was devastated right along with Arthur at that plot point- and THE DEATH OF ANTOINE.

"I was kind"

"very- Very."

"...I was loved"

"Unconditionally"

I don't know why that scene in particular fucked me up, but it did. Arthur hugging Antoine in his last moments in hopes of giving him warmth and comfot, telling him he could rest, I could feel myself breaking apart along with Arthur, and when Antoine died, I snapped back along with Arthur in acceptance just as fast its jarring.

And when John brought up the possibility of bringing Antoine back, you best believe I shot down that offer on my end so fast. He deserves to rest, he was just given his go to, don't take that from him.

And everything with Lilith was crazy. The realization at the end about just how far back Lilith actually knew about Arthur- AND FRICKIN KAYNE.

OH MY GOD THIS COMEDIC ASSHOLE.

"Fruit of my loins"????

BRINGING BACK ANTOINE WHEN MY BOY GOT TO REST???

"SEWING THAT TURKEY BACK UP"?????

AND THEN IMPAILING LILITH IN THE HEAD??

AND WE CANT FORGET ABOUT YORICK.

YORICK IN KAHOOTS WITH KAYNE??? YORICK THANKING ARTHUR AND ARTHUR AND JOHN BELIVING HIM AT THE END???

YORICK GETTING CRUSHED????

Will we ever see him again? Who knows.

The ending was brutal as hell. I enjoy binging the episodes while playing Minecraft so its a lot of Arthur screaming in the background while I replant my crops. Proud to say I'm finally caught up for the first time since I started listening to Malevolent and I can't wait to scroll through the Malevolent tag unafraid of spoilers.

Maybe I should have tried screaming instead...

Sometimes, I wonder if anyone will hear the words I speak towards the wall. Then again, can I really expect anyone to when I know no one will answer? Maybe I'm hoping for a spontaneous thought, an unexpected action that will lead me to a different room that's not filled with silence.

Emphasis on cannibalism

— Trista Mateer ,“I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends”

one thing i need to start living by is “become the thing that you want” if i want friends who throw themed parties maybe i should start throwing those parties. if i want someone who writes me love letters maybe i should start writing letters for the people i love. if i want to hang out at museums and pretty cafes maybe i should invite my friends to these places. and maybe even then i won’t find the kind of people i want to be around. but then i would have become the exact person i want to be around. and maybe that’s good enough.

I finished reading the stranger the other day, and I could not articulate how the book made me feel. I talked about the book to two different teachers and have lacked an answer to the question, "What did you think about it?" both times. I understood and empathized to a degree on what Mersault was going through and his overall viewpoint. Not in whole, but enough I feel. It's a strange feeling. Funny enough, I feel absurd when trying to explain it.

As a dark academic who has searched long and hard for a subculture of dark academia to wear this summer, something that matches the summer atmosphere, I am going to coin a new subculture of dark academia.

I present: Explorer Academia.

Repost so I can find later

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)