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Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak
@ksymil.bsky.social
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Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology.
📍 Kraków, Poland
🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
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scardanella.bsky.social
Neues Jahr, neue Umfrage für Karmapunkte 🌞https://survey.academiccloud.de/f/477614?lang=de
Norm & Kreativität von Sprache in Social Media
survey.academiccloud.de
January 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
ksymil.bsky.social
❤️
www.wosp.org.pl
Logo Wielkiej Orkiestry Świątecznej Pomocy: czerwone serce z nazwą akcji. Plik pochodzący z Wikicommons.
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Oh, the irony ... 🫣

Il[=r]oniaノ事 'On irony'
January 1, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Chinese is written in columns R>L while Mongolian and Manchu are written in columns L>R -- unless they aren't! 🤓

Here's e.g. some Manchu text ("Dai Hiyo") in columns *from right to left* -- just like the Chinese text right below (Daxue 大學, The Great Learning), from which it was translated. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
"Die Daten wurden extrapoliert."
vs.
"Die Daten wurden extra poliert." (Data Enrichment?)

🤔
December 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Samuel Robert Ramsey 2025 The Japanese and Their Language: How the Japanese Made Their Language and It Made Them (Sino-Platonic Papers 372) @ sino-platonic.org/complete/spp...
sino-platonic.org
December 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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muromachi-bot.bsky.social
モライギキ（貰ひ聞き）ほかの人々が話したり、言い争ったりするのが聞こえてくること。（日葡辞書）
December 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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yraneac.bsky.social
www.tibetanreview.net/china-revise...
China’s revised national language law punishes those who ‘interfere’ with others’ learning, use of Mandarin - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Dec27’25) – China’s top legislature has passed a revised Law on the Standard Spoken and Written Chinese Language on Dec 27 and it will come into force on Jan 1, 2026. The new law w...
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December 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
💡⛰️: "kein Brot. u. keine Ehre: Metaphysica, Logica, Critica"

(Puh, da muss ich ja echt mal überlegen, wo "mein" Fach eigentlich hingehört ... 😆)

< 1800 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's vermischte Schriften, Bd. 1, S. 266 @ www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/...
December 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Are these by any chance ... Eleph🐘-🐜ants? 🤭

< 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili @ books.google.de/books?id=lJs...
December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
This is so cool -- the 1715 catalogue of Dillingen-based printer & publisher Johann Caspar Bencard (1649-1720), providing the titlepage for each book, sorted by language (Latin > German) and format (folio > quarto > etc.)! 😻

Are there more examples like this? 🧐

< books.google.de/books?id=NYV...
December 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ksymil.bsky.social
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Jaime González-Bolado, “Found in Transliteration: Japanese Names in Missionary Sources on Hideyoshi’s Invasions of Korea”
doi.org/10.69307/jap...
Found in Transliteration
This research note examines the complex transliteration practices used by the Jesuits in Japan during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuri …
doi.org
December 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
Your annual reminder that if you get this cracker joke and are confused by it, it's apparently because "ffi" is a special character in some fonts and when the typeface is changed to one that doesn't have it, those letters disappear. It's supposed to be "coffin medicine".
A Christmas cracker joke which reads: What kind of cough medicine does Dracula take? Con medicine
December 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Es geht doch wirklich nichts über eine "regelmäszige" und nicht "unregelmässige" Orthographie! 🤡

< Hoffmann 1877 Japanische Sprachlehre @ books.google.de/books?id=w-2...
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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bungakureport.bsky.social
国立国語研究所「日本語史研究用テキストデータ集」にて、日葡辞書，言海の見出し語データ（txt，xlsx）が公開（2025-10-30）
www2.ninjal.ac.jp/textdb_datas...
日本語史研究用テキストデータ集 | 国立国語研究所
国立国語研究所共同研究プロジェクト等で作成したテキストデータ（TXT, XMLなど）を公開しています。
www2.ninjal.ac.jp
December 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ksymil.bsky.social
דער קראָקעװער שמועסקרײַז װעט זיך טרעפֿן׃
דעם 17טן דעצעמבער 2025, 6 אַ זײגער אין אָװנט
קראָקע, אסתּר־גאַס 5, קאַפֿע „אַלכעמיאַ“.

אַלע זענען האַרציק פֿאַרבעטן, מיר װאַרטן אױף אײַך!

#ייִדיש #קראָקע #שמועסקרײַז
דער פּלאַקאַט פֿונעם קראָקעװער שמועסקרײַז, מיט די אײגענע ידיעות װאָס שטײען אינעם סקיט גופֿא.
December 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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theoldgermanicguy.bsky.social
Da etliche kleinere Fehler beseitigt wurden, dachte ich, dass es mal wieder Zeit für einen erneuten Upload wäre ...
GRUNDRISS DER GOTISCHEN ETYMOLOGIE
This is as far as I am concerned the final version of the Grundriss der Gotischen Etymologie (2024) - only misspellings, missing words in the index or forgotten literature will be corrected/added. Wit...
www.academia.edu
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
"The existing language of Japan, taken as a whole, is neither Japanese nor Chinese, but a jargon made up of Japanese and mis-pronounced, and often mis-used, Chinese;"

Quite a thing so say ... and of course in English. 😅
(Featuring also: ear- and eye-languages. 🤔)

< books.google.de/books?id=RR3...
December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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grantscheam.bsky.social
Die einzige Chance, in unserer heutigen Zeit nicht verrückt zu werden...

... besteht darin, es bereits zu sein.
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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ingeveb.bsky.social
NEW INTERVIEW 🦚

A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

ingeveb.org/blog/convers...
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath | In geveb
Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath talk Yiddish dictionaries, lexicography, and how the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary came to be.
ingeveb.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Some books really deserve a sticker or something on their cover saying:

⚠️ No primary sources were harmed* in the making of this book. ⚠️

(* Or even looked at for that matter.)
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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juedstudien.bsky.social
#Chancen | The Hebrew and Yiddish subdivision at John Hopkins University offers a PhD program in Jewish Languages and Literatures | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#yiddish #hebrew #phd

Deadline for submission of all materials: January 15, 2026
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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mattitiahu.bsky.social
I opened up my copy of Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä's Notes from an Island to find the Politikens Boghal receipt with the tagline "It's not hoarding if it's books" on it, which I never noticed before.

Having recently packed and shipped several crates of books overseas I feel a bit uncomfortable.
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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viewsproject.bsky.social
Become part of this movement to safeguard minoritised communities and their linguistic and cultural heritage - check out the website here. You can get in touch to join or come along to a meeting first to find out what it's all about.

www.scriptkeepers.org
Script Keepers Network – Safeguarding Scripts
Script Keepers Network Unites People To Protect And Revitalize The World’s Endangered Writing Systems.
www.scriptkeepers.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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viewsproject.bsky.social
The next meetings of the Script Keepers Network will be next Sunday, 14th December, all very welcome. Here are the zoom registration links:

09:00 ET (14.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

16:00 ET (21.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM