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The Galician words ‘palabra’ (“word”) and ‘parábola’ (“parable; parabola”) are so-called doublets: they stem from the same word, Latin ‘parabolam’.
‘Palabra’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘parábola’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Here’s episode 8 of my doublet series: Galician.
‘Palabra’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘parábola’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Here’s episode 8 of my doublet series: Galician.
December 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The Galician words ‘palabra’ (“word”) and ‘parábola’ (“parable; parabola”) are so-called doublets: they stem from the same word, Latin ‘parabolam’.
‘Palabra’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘parábola’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Here’s episode 8 of my doublet series: Galician.
‘Palabra’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘parábola’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Here’s episode 8 of my doublet series: Galician.
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THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
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The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”.
‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Pairs like this are called doublets.
Episode 7 of my series: Catalan.
Next: Galician.
‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Pairs like this are called doublets.
Episode 7 of my series: Catalan.
Next: Galician.
December 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Catalan word ‘metzina’ means “poison”. It stems from the same Latin word as ‘medicina’, meaning “medicine”.
‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Pairs like this are called doublets.
Episode 7 of my series: Catalan.
Next: Galician.
‘Metzina’ was inherited from spoken Latin, while ‘medicina’ is a late borrowing from written Latin.
Pairs like this are called doublets.
Episode 7 of my series: Catalan.
Next: Galician.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
got to spend the day talking to some older rural Puerto Rico Spanish speakers who have voiceless uvular fricative [χ] where other varieties have trill [r]. e.g. "carro" [ˈkaχo] and "rápido" [ˈχapiðo]
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
got to spend the day talking to some older rural Puerto Rico Spanish speakers who have voiceless uvular fricative [χ] where other varieties have trill [r]. e.g. "carro" [ˈkaχo] and "rápido" [ˈχapiðo]
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This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
Trump has revoked legal status for at least 1.6 million immigrants over the past year by cancelling programs like TPS and student visas.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
Remember: these are people who entered the country legally.
Trump never cared about “legal immigration" — just inflicting cruelty.
December 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is totally underreported. Trump is not just going after "illegals." He's going after people who were here legally, by changing their status.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
These are people who entered the US the right way, and never broke a law. Now they are subject to Trump's whim, his ICE goons, and inhuman detention.
at a restaurant here in PR and there are two different sections on the otherwise all-Spanish menu: "Bebidas" (e.g. juice and sodas) and "Drinks" (i.e. cocktails). and all i can think of is the cow vs. beef thing
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
at a restaurant here in PR and there are two different sections on the otherwise all-Spanish menu: "Bebidas" (e.g. juice and sodas) and "Drinks" (i.e. cocktails). and all i can think of is the cow vs. beef thing
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What's the probability of no one grabbing their own name when picking secret Santas? (Spoiler alert: e appears here!)
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What's the probability of no one grabbing their own name when picking secret Santas? (Spoiler alert: e appears here!)
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Hey what's with this diminutive(??) suffix -ukka?
Any other examples?
(Egyptian Arabic, Hinds & Bedawi)
Any other examples?
(Egyptian Arabic, Hinds & Bedawi)
December 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hey what's with this diminutive(??) suffix -ukka?
Any other examples?
(Egyptian Arabic, Hinds & Bedawi)
Any other examples?
(Egyptian Arabic, Hinds & Bedawi)
you should know that Christopher Nolan already made an Odyssey adaptation back in 2014 and it was called Interstellar
December 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
you should know that Christopher Nolan already made an Odyssey adaptation back in 2014 and it was called Interstellar
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Poverty can be a headache. ‘Micragna’, the Italian descendant of Latin ‘hēmicrānia’ (migraine), evolved to to mean “poverty”.
Later, ‘hēmicrānia’ was borrowed from Latin, becoming ‘emicrania’ - a doublet of ‘micragna’.
Here’s episode 4 of my 10-part doublet series:
Italian.
Tomorrow: Portuguese.
Later, ‘hēmicrānia’ was borrowed from Latin, becoming ‘emicrania’ - a doublet of ‘micragna’.
Here’s episode 4 of my 10-part doublet series:
Italian.
Tomorrow: Portuguese.
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Poverty can be a headache. ‘Micragna’, the Italian descendant of Latin ‘hēmicrānia’ (migraine), evolved to to mean “poverty”.
Later, ‘hēmicrānia’ was borrowed from Latin, becoming ‘emicrania’ - a doublet of ‘micragna’.
Here’s episode 4 of my 10-part doublet series:
Italian.
Tomorrow: Portuguese.
Later, ‘hēmicrānia’ was borrowed from Latin, becoming ‘emicrania’ - a doublet of ‘micragna’.
Here’s episode 4 of my 10-part doublet series:
Italian.
Tomorrow: Portuguese.
update, her "cuatro" sounds more like /kwatho/ now
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
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
update, her "cuatro" sounds more like /kwatho/ now
toddler creating a separate "be" verb in German on the basis of the infinitive _sein_:
- "du musst vorsichtig sein"
- "ich sei vorsichtig!" (i be careful)
"du seist grün, papa" (handing me a green car from a board game set)
- "du musst vorsichtig sein"
- "ich sei vorsichtig!" (i be careful)
"du seist grün, papa" (handing me a green car from a board game set)
December 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
toddler creating a separate "be" verb in German on the basis of the infinitive _sein_:
- "du musst vorsichtig sein"
- "ich sei vorsichtig!" (i be careful)
"du seist grün, papa" (handing me a green car from a board game set)
- "du musst vorsichtig sein"
- "ich sei vorsichtig!" (i be careful)
"du seist grün, papa" (handing me a green car from a board game set)
toddler adding ergativity to Spanish by saying "me quiere.." for "yo quiero.."
December 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
toddler adding ergativity to Spanish by saying "me quiere.." for "yo quiero.."
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I think this is also part of what is meaningful to people about languages. Each one has its own ways of imperfectly capturing thought and feeling, and those imperfections become familiar and important and part of the feeling itself.
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I think this is also part of what is meaningful to people about languages. Each one has its own ways of imperfectly capturing thought and feeling, and those imperfections become familiar and important and part of the feeling itself.
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That we need the files of a dead man to corroborate the reported trauma of over a thousand women - and that even those files need to be cartoonishly redacted - pretty much says everything about whose experience is considered real.
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
That we need the files of a dead man to corroborate the reported trauma of over a thousand women - and that even those files need to be cartoonishly redacted - pretty much says everything about whose experience is considered real.
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It'd probably look a lot like this, from Enmerkar and the lord of Aratta, lines 536-541:
"After the messenger spoke as such, the lord of Aratta received his kiln-fired tablet from him. The lord of Aratta looked at the tablet. The transmitted message was just nails, and his brow expressed anger."
"After the messenger spoke as such, the lord of Aratta received his kiln-fired tablet from him. The lord of Aratta looked at the tablet. The transmitted message was just nails, and his brow expressed anger."
you ever read a book so bad you wanna go back to mesopotamia and uninvent writing
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It'd probably look a lot like this, from Enmerkar and the lord of Aratta, lines 536-541:
"After the messenger spoke as such, the lord of Aratta received his kiln-fired tablet from him. The lord of Aratta looked at the tablet. The transmitted message was just nails, and his brow expressed anger."
"After the messenger spoke as such, the lord of Aratta received his kiln-fired tablet from him. The lord of Aratta looked at the tablet. The transmitted message was just nails, and his brow expressed anger."
another good one i recently learned about via a Medieval Latin reading is "ransom", from Fr. rançon, < Latin redemptiō(nem), making it a doublet of "redemption"/rédemption
The French word ‘employer’ (to emploi) has the same origin as ‘impliquer’ (to imply).
The former was inherited from Latin, while the latter was borrowed from it later.
They’re called doublets.
Stay tuned for doublets in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch and English.
The former was inherited from Latin, while the latter was borrowed from it later.
They’re called doublets.
Stay tuned for doublets in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch and English.
December 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
another good one i recently learned about via a Medieval Latin reading is "ransom", from Fr. rançon, < Latin redemptiō(nem), making it a doublet of "redemption"/rédemption
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The French word ‘employer’ (to emploi) has the same origin as ‘impliquer’ (to imply).
The former was inherited from Latin, while the latter was borrowed from it later.
They’re called doublets.
Stay tuned for doublets in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch and English.
The former was inherited from Latin, while the latter was borrowed from it later.
They’re called doublets.
Stay tuned for doublets in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch and English.
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The French word ‘employer’ (to emploi) has the same origin as ‘impliquer’ (to imply).
The former was inherited from Latin, while the latter was borrowed from it later.
They’re called doublets.
Stay tuned for doublets in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch and English.
The former was inherited from Latin, while the latter was borrowed from it later.
They’re called doublets.
Stay tuned for doublets in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch and English.
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2 more verses of the X-mas Gospel, in Nordic 7th century speech:
⁴ Þā̃ fōɹ ɞuk Jōsēfř uppaf Gaɫilēō̃ ūř Natsaɹēþā̃boɹg, upp ī̃ Jūþēō̃, tiɫ Dāfīþsboɹgāř, su hæitīř Bētlihæimř, fyɹiř þi͡y at hānn was af hūsē ɞuk kynjē Dāfīþs, ⁵ tiɫ at lātā̃ wɹītā̃ sik tiɫ skatts meþ Maɹjō̃ sīnnē fæstāřmœyjū ō̃lẽhtřē.
#langsky
⁴ Þā̃ fōɹ ɞuk Jōsēfř uppaf Gaɫilēō̃ ūř Natsaɹēþā̃boɹg, upp ī̃ Jūþēō̃, tiɫ Dāfīþsboɹgāř, su hæitīř Bētlihæimř, fyɹiř þi͡y at hānn was af hūsē ɞuk kynjē Dāfīþs, ⁵ tiɫ at lātā̃ wɹītā̃ sik tiɫ skatts meþ Maɹjō̃ sīnnē fæstāřmœyjū ō̃lẽhtřē.
#langsky
Last year I took comments, now a rerun:
¹Ænn waɹþ ī̃ þā̃ dagā̃,þat bʊþ gɪ̃nk ūt fɹā̃ Augustē kæisāɹā̃ þat miþigaɹþr̥ allř skuldē wɹītā̃-sk tiɫ skatts.
²Ænn waɹþ þā̃ wɹitɪ̃nt tiɫ skatts fyɹstū̃ sinnē, þā̃ Kyɹinīř was sti͡yɹandē yfiɹ Syɹj̃ō̃.
³Ænn fōɹū̃ þā̃ allēř at wɹītā̃-sk tiɫ skatts, hʷæɹiř ī̃ sīnā boɹg.
#langsky
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¹Ænn waɹþ ī̃ þā̃ dagā̃,þat bʊþ gɪ̃nk ūt fɹā̃ Augustē kæisāɹā̃ þat miþigaɹþr̥ allř skuldē wɹītā̃-sk tiɫ skatts.
²Ænn waɹþ þā̃ wɹitɪ̃nt tiɫ skatts fyɹstū̃ sinnē, þā̃ Kyɹinīř was sti͡yɹandē yfiɹ Syɹj̃ō̃.
³Ænn fōɹū̃ þā̃ allēř at wɹītā̃-sk tiɫ skatts, hʷæɹiř ī̃ sīnā boɹg.
#langsky
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December 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
2 more verses of the X-mas Gospel, in Nordic 7th century speech:
⁴ Þā̃ fōɹ ɞuk Jōsēfř uppaf Gaɫilēō̃ ūř Natsaɹēþā̃boɹg, upp ī̃ Jūþēō̃, tiɫ Dāfīþsboɹgāř, su hæitīř Bētlihæimř, fyɹiř þi͡y at hānn was af hūsē ɞuk kynjē Dāfīþs, ⁵ tiɫ at lātā̃ wɹītā̃ sik tiɫ skatts meþ Maɹjō̃ sīnnē fæstāřmœyjū ō̃lẽhtřē.
#langsky
⁴ Þā̃ fōɹ ɞuk Jōsēfř uppaf Gaɫilēō̃ ūř Natsaɹēþā̃boɹg, upp ī̃ Jūþēō̃, tiɫ Dāfīþsboɹgāř, su hæitīř Bētlihæimř, fyɹiř þi͡y at hānn was af hūsē ɞuk kynjē Dāfīþs, ⁵ tiɫ at lātā̃ wɹītā̃ sik tiɫ skatts meþ Maɹjō̃ sīnnē fæstāřmœyjū ō̃lẽhtřē.
#langsky
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It turns out the abyss was actually staring at someone it knows behind me. Embarrassing.
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It turns out the abyss was actually staring at someone it knows behind me. Embarrassing.
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Red-Haired People’s Winter Festival, also known to some as ‘Christmas,’ is nearing. Happy Angmo Winter Solstice, everyone! Chiok ta̍k-ke âng-môo tang-tseh khuài-lo̍k! 祝逐家紅毛冬節快樂！ 😁🎄🤶
December 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Red-Haired People’s Winter Festival, also known to some as ‘Christmas,’ is nearing. Happy Angmo Winter Solstice, everyone! Chiok ta̍k-ke âng-môo tang-tseh khuài-lo̍k! 祝逐家紅毛冬節快樂！ 😁🎄🤶
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All the good typographers are part of the resistance
Excuse my language but this looks like absolute dog shit.
I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center:
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
All the good typographers are part of the resistance
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hear me out. these are just arabic conjugational prefixes (t-, y-) added to french verbs 😎
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
hear me out. these are just arabic conjugational prefixes (t-, y-) added to french verbs 😎
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White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.
85% of CEOs are white men.
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
All but one US President has been a white man.
65% of all elected offices are held by white men.
Roughly 30% of the population is white men.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???
December 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.