Tag: wakanda

fieldofirym:

fieldofirym:

impratical:

libertarirynn:

whyyoustabbedme:

Let’s not forget that lighter people are/always have had more representation in movies so there’s really no reason to be pressed.

Is anyone on earth capable of just enjoying things anymore?

Not for the past decade no.

Hi. Light skinned people, shut the fuck up now, here (the Dora, back left; she’s in the fucking movie, pay attention):

Also, yes, I noticed her cause she hella stood out.

See? Now you can’t not see her.

I have one kind of stupid linguistics-nerd nitpick about Black Panther. The place-name “Wakanda,” the location posited for it, and the structure of the personal names are, I think, meant to suggest that it’s a Bantu ethnic group. They had Wakandans speak Xhosa as a stand-in for the native language of Wakanda. The linguistic problem, though, is that Xhosa is one of the Bantu languages that fairly recently – a few hundred years ago – borrowed clicks from genetically unrelated Khoisan languages due to intermarriage (this article explains how and when the borrowing happened). I got the sense that Wakanda has been isolated for more than a few hundred years – longer than there have been clicks in Bantu languages like Xhosa and Zulu. So they probably should have used Swahili, a Bantu language that doesn’t have clicks.

On the other hand, the number of people who are likely to know that that’s historically implausible is so minimal that it really doesn’t matter that much.