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The chapter has two titles, but is in English. I tried to keep it accessible and formulaic so that it could be easily translated.

Documentação das Línguas Nacionais de Timor-Leste: Uma Revisão da Literatura 1998-2024

Documentation of Timor-Leste's National Languages: A Literary Review 1998-2024

Right before TL's independence, linguist Geoffrey Hull wrote a similar document which outlined language resources up until 1997. Pre-internet-2.0!!! It was a fantastic resource for all kinds of scholars; I've been updating it periodically over the years just because. I'm so happy I got to do this!!

I’m glad I’m not the only person who occasionally rereads this piece for unknown reasons.

Actually, this Reagan-era judge bench slap thing feels VERY much like Elrond finally dragging his actual blacksmith ass to work the shards of Narsil at the 11th hour (why didn’t he do that IMMEDIATELY after he called the Council????)

I had to look this up on German Wikipedia! Thank you for this valuable cultural morsel, was für 1 nice Lesm :)

(Reminds me of lolspeak)

All this to say, I’m really stoked about this unique little publication and I can’t wait to share it!!!

Sounds a bit flippant (or at least very ADHD) to say I wrote an article in 48 hours, but it was for data that I’d been meticulously collecting for nearly 10 years with no real idea what to do with it until early this year. Losing track of the deadline is on me, but so was pulling it off in the end.

It’s also a win because it was WAY over the word limit but the revisions are basically “write more here, be less concise there, add that critical discussion section you wanted” 🤩🤩

This one is an especially big win, because I wrote the entire thing in 48 hours while my partner was out of the country with his sibling so I was single-parenting AND prepping for a houseguest.

I missed literally every single talk (and about 25% of the 2 plenaries I was able to sit in on), but I gather that stickers got a lot of love this year!

(It is possible that my opinion is unacceptably biased but I will hear no dissent)