Leah
@dreamsofvenus.bsky.social
Linguist in LA. Vitam faciunt balnea vina Venus.
Which Rent characters do we think would be Trump voters now?
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Which Rent characters do we think would be Trump voters now?
Learned about a really funny law
December 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Learned about a really funny law
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Today's cool fact about language:
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Today's cool fact about language:
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
The so-called “visual” evidential ‹ḥdug› in Ladakhi is used by a woman who was born blind for all information that she obtains from her immediate vicinity through her other senses. People outside her family find this “pretentious” (b/c she hasn't “seen” any of it).
The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The mass and majesty of this world, all
That carries weight and always weighs the same
That carries weight and always weighs the same
Was Bonnie Prince Charlie the biggest failson of all time?
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Was Bonnie Prince Charlie the biggest failson of all time?
Gaelic is really the Yiddish of Goidelic languages
November 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Gaelic is really the Yiddish of Goidelic languages
Do we have any records of what kind of accent Bonnie Prince Charlie had when speaking English or Scots? It must have been phenomenally strange.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Do we have any records of what kind of accent Bonnie Prince Charlie had when speaking English or Scots? It must have been phenomenally strange.
Wiktionary says there was a proto-Muskogean form "¢akliCₐo". Anyone know what on earth ¢ is supposed to be? Perhaps an old typewriter-derived Americanist version of ç?
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Wiktionary says there was a proto-Muskogean form "¢akliCₐo". Anyone know what on earth ¢ is supposed to be? Perhaps an old typewriter-derived Americanist version of ç?
Thinking about this as per usual on Halloween. But only this year did I learn that an early 20c farmer found the actual Crom Cruach stone, the one supposedly smashed by St. Patrick. It's just sitting in the county museum in Cavan??? And no one on the entire internet has shared a good picture of it?
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Thinking about this as per usual on Halloween. But only this year did I learn that an early 20c farmer found the actual Crom Cruach stone, the one supposedly smashed by St. Patrick. It's just sitting in the county museum in Cavan??? And no one on the entire internet has shared a good picture of it?
I'm the guy in Poland going "I don't agree with their policy of slaughtering entire countries, but I think we should hear them out about those meat pies."
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm the guy in Poland going "I don't agree with their policy of slaughtering entire countries, but I think we should hear them out about those meat pies."
I was a copy editor for my college newspaper and if this had happened on my watch it would have haunted me for life.
Washington Post editorial board: Right-wing idiots who also cannot spell.
October 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I was a copy editor for my college newspaper and if this had happened on my watch it would have haunted me for life.
Been speaking Spanish enough at home that it's borrowing into my subconscious; I was just baffled for quite a long time trying to interpret "Wichita"
October 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Been speaking Spanish enough at home that it's borrowing into my subconscious; I was just baffled for quite a long time trying to interpret "Wichita"
The big protest downtown is during kiddo's naptime so we went to an early one in Alhambra
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The big protest downtown is during kiddo's naptime so we went to an early one in Alhambra
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Customer: I WAS IN THE FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA IN SCHOOL. THIS IS A REF TO THE CHICKENS I RAISED
DMV: MY COCK?
Verdict: DENIED
DMV: MY COCK?
Verdict: DENIED
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Customer: I WAS IN THE FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA IN SCHOOL. THIS IS A REF TO THE CHICKENS I RAISED
DMV: MY COCK?
Verdict: DENIED
DMV: MY COCK?
Verdict: DENIED
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Do you think in Mictlán they call it Día de Vivos
October 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Do you think in Mictlán they call it Día de Vivos
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personally however I would just have said that my friend's wife and I were organizing some kind of surprise birthday party for him, surely there's a compromise between 'noble sacrifice' and 'ballsdeep, your honor'
October 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
personally however I would just have said that my friend's wife and I were organizing some kind of surprise birthday party for him, surely there's a compromise between 'noble sacrifice' and 'ballsdeep, your honor'
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it's still happening in la, by the way. like not to be that guy. but it increasingly happening elsewhere doesn't mean it stopped here
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
it's still happening in la, by the way. like not to be that guy. but it increasingly happening elsewhere doesn't mean it stopped here
Charles I speedrun
Well that's not how appropriations work at all
*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Charles I speedrun
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Thinking again about this poem www.jstor.org/stable/20155...
They Shall Not Pass on JSTOR
Ai, They Shall Not Pass, The Iowa Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter, 1980), pp. 103-105
www.jstor.org
October 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thinking again about this poem www.jstor.org/stable/20155...
AU where nothing is different except we kept the Claudian letters
September 27, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AU where nothing is different except we kept the Claudian letters
During the first year of Covid I rented an apartment in Berkeley with a view like this out of one window. This brings me back the memory of many weird lonely days that year, brightened for a few minutes by a gorgeous sunset.
Sunset last night behind San Francisco Financial District, as seen from Emeryville, California.
#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin
#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
During the first year of Covid I rented an apartment in Berkeley with a view like this out of one window. This brings me back the memory of many weird lonely days that year, brightened for a few minutes by a gorgeous sunset.
How am I just now learning that Fionn mac Cumhaill was raised by two moms??
Bodhmall - Wikipedia
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September 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
How am I just now learning that Fionn mac Cumhaill was raised by two moms??
