Cameron the Apostate
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Writer, thinker, journalist, photographer, lover of languages and language. Fabulous tales and simple stories. A decade+ veteran of Twitter
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Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
January 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.
Reading Japanese when you only speak Chinese - the border-crossing power of characters www.instagram.com/reel/DRa_M-b...
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jessiez888When you can read Chinese #chinese #japan #language
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November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Reading Japanese when you only speak Chinese - the border-crossing power of characters www.instagram.com/reel/DRa_M-b...
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Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
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“Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind”
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind”
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
—from Dune by Frank Herbert
If you pointed something sharp at me and insisted I choose my favourite Latinism in English, my choice would probably be 'disaster', from the negative prefix 'dis-' (think 'disorganised') and 'astrum', star (ultimately a borrowing from Greek). So a disaster is something that happens under a bad star
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
If you pointed something sharp at me and insisted I choose my favourite Latinism in English, my choice would probably be 'disaster', from the negative prefix 'dis-' (think 'disorganised') and 'astrum', star (ultimately a borrowing from Greek). So a disaster is something that happens under a bad star
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Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Four. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Four - Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons
Art historian Dr Nina Ramirez reveals the codes and messages hidden in Anglo-Saxon art.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons, tomorrow at 8pm on BBC Four. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
Beer for real men
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Beer for real men
The masculine urge to study Classical Greek for the first time in my life, even though I have no time to do so
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The masculine urge to study Classical Greek for the first time in my life, even though I have no time to do so
Why has all of the colour gone out of the world? www.instagram.com/reel/DRSq3bS...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Why has all of the colour gone out of the world? www.instagram.com/reel/DRSq3bS...
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I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
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Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
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Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
@dannybate.bsky.social Is another great vowel shift underway? www.instagram.com/reel/DRMpbH3...
Pronunciation Studio on Instagram: "A lot of people have been asking about this modern vowel shift in British (Southern) English. I think the best way to understand it is to compare 3 accents:
RP - R...
6,322 likes, 143 comments - pronunciation.studio on November 18, 2025: "A lot of people have been asking about this modern vowel shift in British (Southern) English. I think the best way to understand...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
@dannybate.bsky.social Is another great vowel shift underway? www.instagram.com/reel/DRMpbH3...
Of late my life has been afflicted by several of those annoying types who say they're going to do something, then...don't. Life's stand-uppers. It shows a fundamental disrespect for other people's time and energy. I know it can be hard to say no at times, but /1
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Of late my life has been afflicted by several of those annoying types who say they're going to do something, then...don't. Life's stand-uppers. It shows a fundamental disrespect for other people's time and energy. I know it can be hard to say no at times, but /1
@dannybate.bsky.social Yesterday I learned that the Old Norse term for French, the language, was 'valska': an immediately recognisable root if ever there was one !
October 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
@dannybate.bsky.social Yesterday I learned that the Old Norse term for French, the language, was 'valska': an immediately recognisable root if ever there was one !
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Edward the Confessor, holding court in Oxford, agreed to Northumbrian rebels’ demands to outlaw Earl Tostig #OTD in 1065. The king sent Harold Godwineson, earl of Wessex, to inform the northerners, who were camped in Northampton. #medievalsky
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Edward the Confessor, holding court in Oxford, agreed to Northumbrian rebels’ demands to outlaw Earl Tostig #OTD in 1065. The king sent Harold Godwineson, earl of Wessex, to inform the northerners, who were camped in Northampton. #medievalsky
A frustrating thing in life: how often decisions you've been pondering are suddenly made for you by external forces. Example: I've been using, inter alia, a particular office space in my town since not long after covid. Lately it's been going downhill though, and I'd started using a better /1
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
A frustrating thing in life: how often decisions you've been pondering are suddenly made for you by external forces. Example: I've been using, inter alia, a particular office space in my town since not long after covid. Lately it's been going downhill though, and I'd started using a better /1
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Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
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Incredible, incredible stuff. Literally hang this in the actual Louvre.
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Incredible, incredible stuff. Literally hang this in the actual Louvre.
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Hey Bluesky: any friendly neighbourhood Latinists out there know of a source for the 1980s-era paperback editions of this legendary-but-long-out-of-print Latin textbook?
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hey Bluesky: any friendly neighbourhood Latinists out there know of a source for the 1980s-era paperback editions of this legendary-but-long-out-of-print Latin textbook?
Hey Bluesky: any friendly neighbourhood Latinists out there know of a source for the 1980s-era paperback editions of this legendary-but-long-out-of-print Latin textbook?
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hey Bluesky: any friendly neighbourhood Latinists out there know of a source for the 1980s-era paperback editions of this legendary-but-long-out-of-print Latin textbook?
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Yes #sophiefromromania, I am eating a biscuit
October 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Yes #sophiefromromania, I am eating a biscuit
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Will I be able to follow the plot of World War 4 if I haven’t seen 3 yet?
October 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Will I be able to follow the plot of World War 4 if I haven’t seen 3 yet?
The edition with the steering wheel splash screen was the first browser I ever used
Netscape Navigator also sparked the first major software-bundling debates & helped shape the early web ecosystem. Netscape set the tone for the browser wars & the modern web we use today. A true icon of early internet innovation.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The edition with the steering wheel splash screen was the first browser I ever used
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WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
October 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE
Beware of Chinese tattoos if you don't speak Chinese
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October 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Beware of Chinese tattoos if you don't speak Chinese
A distinctive feature of Northern British English: the use of 'love' /lʊv/ as an informal, friendly way to address strangers of the opposite sex. Shopkeepers use it to address customers - "alright love? /əraɪt lʊv/ A variant you will also sometimes hear is 'pet'
October 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A distinctive feature of Northern British English: the use of 'love' /lʊv/ as an informal, friendly way to address strangers of the opposite sex. Shopkeepers use it to address customers - "alright love? /əraɪt lʊv/ A variant you will also sometimes hear is 'pet'