kobayashi ḫamṭu
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"quid tamen ageret? nihil praeter chlamydem, qua indutus erat, habebat: iam enim reliqua in opus simile consumpserat.
arrepto itaque ferro, quo accinctus erat, mediam dividit partemque eius pauperi tribuit, reliqua rursus induitur."
Sulpicius Severus, Vita Martini
arrepto itaque ferro, quo accinctus erat, mediam dividit partemque eius pauperi tribuit, reliqua rursus induitur."
Sulpicius Severus, Vita Martini
Also for the feast of Saint Martin, a 1492 rendition of perhaps the most famous episode from his life.
[Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 15, f.253r]
[Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 15, f.253r]
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"quid tamen ageret? nihil praeter chlamydem, qua indutus erat, habebat: iam enim reliqua in opus simile consumpserat.
arrepto itaque ferro, quo accinctus erat, mediam dividit partemque eius pauperi tribuit, reliqua rursus induitur."
Sulpicius Severus, Vita Martini
arrepto itaque ferro, quo accinctus erat, mediam dividit partemque eius pauperi tribuit, reliqua rursus induitur."
Sulpicius Severus, Vita Martini
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Also for the feast of Saint Martin, a 1492 rendition of perhaps the most famous episode from his life.
[Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 15, f.253r]
[Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 15, f.253r]
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Also for the feast of Saint Martin, a 1492 rendition of perhaps the most famous episode from his life.
[Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 15, f.253r]
[Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 15, f.253r]
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In a few years there will be movies about their personal anguish over atrocities they had no choice but to participate in
GUARDIAN: “Israeli soldiers described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers… use of human shields, opening fire unprovoked…” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In a few years there will be movies about their personal anguish over atrocities they had no choice but to participate in
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Egyptian Arabic idiom of the day:
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Egyptian Arabic idiom of the day:
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
زِهِقْت
zihíʾt
"I'm sick of it, I'm fed up."
It can take an indirect object with min, e.g.
[zɪhɪʔtə mɪnə ʃːuɣl]
"I'm sick of work."
came across this gem in Coptic reading group today:
ⲟⲩⲗⲁⲥ ⲛⲥⲁⲣⲝⲡⲉ ⲡⲁⲗⲁⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲟⲩϩⲏⲧ ⲛⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲡⲉⲧⲙⲙⲟⲓ
"my tongue is a tongue of flesh, and mine is a human heart"
(referring to the author's own human limitations in writing adequate praises of a saint)
ⲟⲩⲗⲁⲥ ⲛⲥⲁⲣⲝⲡⲉ ⲡⲁⲗⲁⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲟⲩϩⲏⲧ ⲛⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲡⲉⲧⲙⲙⲟⲓ
"my tongue is a tongue of flesh, and mine is a human heart"
(referring to the author's own human limitations in writing adequate praises of a saint)
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
came across this gem in Coptic reading group today:
ⲟⲩⲗⲁⲥ ⲛⲥⲁⲣⲝⲡⲉ ⲡⲁⲗⲁⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲟⲩϩⲏⲧ ⲛⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲡⲉⲧⲙⲙⲟⲓ
"my tongue is a tongue of flesh, and mine is a human heart"
(referring to the author's own human limitations in writing adequate praises of a saint)
ⲟⲩⲗⲁⲥ ⲛⲥⲁⲣⲝⲡⲉ ⲡⲁⲗⲁⲥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲟⲩϩⲏⲧ ⲛⲣⲱⲙⲉ ⲡⲉⲧⲙⲙⲟⲓ
"my tongue is a tongue of flesh, and mine is a human heart"
(referring to the author's own human limitations in writing adequate praises of a saint)
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Today in linguistic example sentences 🍅
(Source: Gueche Fotso's 2024 illustration of resumptive pronouns for left-dislocated topics in Nda'Nda')
(Source: Gueche Fotso's 2024 illustration of resumptive pronouns for left-dislocated topics in Nda'Nda')
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Today in linguistic example sentences 🍅
(Source: Gueche Fotso's 2024 illustration of resumptive pronouns for left-dislocated topics in Nda'Nda')
(Source: Gueche Fotso's 2024 illustration of resumptive pronouns for left-dislocated topics in Nda'Nda')
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Weekly Georgian Etymology: ლეკვი leḳvi 'puppy', from Old Georgian ႪႤႩႥႨ leḳvi, from Georgian-Zan *leḳw-, an ancient loan from Indo-European *lúkʷos, metathesis of *wĺ̥kʷos 'wolf': cf. Greek λύκος, Proto-Italic *lukʷos. It is thus cognate to English wolf and Latin lupus.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Weekly Georgian Etymology: ლეკვი leḳvi 'puppy', from Old Georgian ႪႤႩႥႨ leḳvi, from Georgian-Zan *leḳw-, an ancient loan from Indo-European *lúkʷos, metathesis of *wĺ̥kʷos 'wolf': cf. Greek λύκος, Proto-Italic *lukʷos. It is thus cognate to English wolf and Latin lupus.
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Het is niet alleen de geluidsoverlast die #bladblazers zo mateloos irritant maken. De herfstkleuren zijn prachtig, er is geen reden het uitzicht te versjteren.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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maslov'sche beduerfnispyramide update
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
maslov'sche beduerfnispyramide update
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Anyway does anyone know of any good Avar or Ingush dictionaries? Paging @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social who does stuff with languages of the Caucasus. Ok if in Russian and not English.
I have a lot of work to do to fill in the blanks for Avar and Ingush when I find proper dictionaries of these, but this is what I have so far.
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Anyway does anyone know of any good Avar or Ingush dictionaries? Paging @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social who does stuff with languages of the Caucasus. Ok if in Russian and not English.
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The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.
Biden knew that Israel was committing crimes against humanity in Gaza and then decided to keep US commitments to Israel, shortly before handing it over to Trump
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Biden Discussed Potential Israeli War Crimes In Gaza. He Kicked The Can To Trump.
New intelligence shocked officials in late 2024, spurring heightened fear of U.S. liability, HuffPost has learned. The period saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken ask if Israel’s actions constituted ...
www.huffpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.
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sociolinguistics / raciolinguistic ideologies / linguistic racism
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
sociolinguistics / raciolinguistic ideologies / linguistic racism
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Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’
Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais
Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’
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The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Another disaster in the UK: The Dept of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham is being closed. Here's a petition:
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Another disaster in the UK: The Dept of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham is being closed. Here's a petition:
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
for '9' in Spanish toddler has finally moved on from /meve/ to /mweve/
i think of all the voiceless stops /k/ took her the longest to be able to do, still she does it fine in most other words except these ones where there is a following labial
she also does "cuatro" /ˈpato/ but i assumed that was a labiovelar > labial thing
she also does "cuatro" /ˈpato/ but i assumed that was a labiovelar > labial thing
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
for '9' in Spanish toddler has finally moved on from /meve/ to /mweve/
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The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.
“The Committee’s unfounded accusations, dependence on clearly compromised sources, and selective presentation of ‘evidence’ represent an unprecedented abuse of congressional power—designed not to find the truth, but to silence leadership that refuses to yield to political pressure.”
— GMU-AAUP
— GMU-AAUP
Congress Accuses GMU President of Lying About DEI Efforts
The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee accused George Mason University's president of lying about DEI practices and likely violating civil rights laws. He has denied the claims.
www.insidehighered.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The federal government is putting its full weight behind purging Black people from public life and the press and opposition party is silent as it does so.
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The most fun orthographical fact I know about Welsh is that the lack of a <k> is purely due to English printers not having enough of them for the Welsh Bible, so William Salesbury told them to use <c> instead.
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The most fun orthographical fact I know about Welsh is that the lack of a <k> is purely due to English printers not having enough of them for the Welsh Bible, so William Salesbury told them to use <c> instead.
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The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow
an unrelated question i have is why the spirantization situation for perfect verbs, as Thackston gives it, apparently differs from this paradigm in Greenspahn's Intro to Aramaic.
specifically: why does the 3rd radical ב not have dagesh lene in 1cs kiθveθ & 3fs kiθvaθ?
cf. Syriac keθ/b/eθ, keθ/b/aθ
specifically: why does the 3rd radical ב not have dagesh lene in 1cs kiθveθ & 3fs kiθvaθ?
cf. Syriac keθ/b/eθ, keθ/b/aθ
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
an unrelated question i have is why the spirantization situation for perfect verbs, as Thackston gives it, apparently differs from this paradigm in Greenspahn's Intro to Aramaic.
specifically: why does the 3rd radical ב not have dagesh lene in 1cs kiθveθ & 3fs kiθvaθ?
cf. Syriac keθ/b/eθ, keθ/b/aθ
specifically: why does the 3rd radical ב not have dagesh lene in 1cs kiθveθ & 3fs kiθvaθ?
cf. Syriac keθ/b/eθ, keθ/b/aθ
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The whole difference is how homogeneous your society is. Big social programs are easier when the majority population thinks "people like me" are benefiting, and harder when the majority population thinks "people like them" are benefiting.
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The whole difference is how homogeneous your society is. Big social programs are easier when the majority population thinks "people like me" are benefiting, and harder when the majority population thinks "people like them" are benefiting.
taking Thackston's description of Syriac stress at face value, the 2mp & 2fp perfects are stressed differently:
masc. /kə-ˈθav-ton/ vs. fem. /kə-θav-ˈteːn/
is this correct? and/or do the main Syriac traditions abide by this?
why does f. *-tina yield long /eː/ but m. *-tunu yields short /o/?
masc. /kə-ˈθav-ton/ vs. fem. /kə-θav-ˈteːn/
is this correct? and/or do the main Syriac traditions abide by this?
why does f. *-tina yield long /eː/ but m. *-tunu yields short /o/?
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
taking Thackston's description of Syriac stress at face value, the 2mp & 2fp perfects are stressed differently:
masc. /kə-ˈθav-ton/ vs. fem. /kə-θav-ˈteːn/
is this correct? and/or do the main Syriac traditions abide by this?
why does f. *-tina yield long /eː/ but m. *-tunu yields short /o/?
masc. /kə-ˈθav-ton/ vs. fem. /kə-θav-ˈteːn/
is this correct? and/or do the main Syriac traditions abide by this?
why does f. *-tina yield long /eː/ but m. *-tunu yields short /o/?
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Lingule
A fun little language game
lingule.xyz
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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i took Exactly One Quarter of irish in undergrad and one of the more enduring impacts it has had on me is the urge to do the irish vocative prefix + initial consonant mutation when i address a friend by name
November 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
i took Exactly One Quarter of irish in undergrad and one of the more enduring impacts it has had on me is the urge to do the irish vocative prefix + initial consonant mutation when i address a friend by name