I'd appreciate it very much if it were possible to smuggle in an episode on "De lykanthropis oratio" by Andreas Arvidi Stregnensis. Also low-hanging fruit to attract Neolatinists from Tartu, I know.

See on ka koht, kus kole palju inimesi korraga surma sai. Kas või surnute hingede lepitamise mõttes on loogiline, et seal midagi oleks.

Seda muidugi, aga kunstilise väärtuse määramine on ka problemaatiline, mõne jaoks pole isegi Linnahallil piisavalt kunstiväärtust, see kriteerium on ka ühiskondlikult tõugata-tõmmata. Ja just seepärast on hea arutada.

Ja minu meelest oli täitsa hea nali, et Peeter I ausambast tehti viiesendiseid, aga büstile halastati. See on liiga huvitav teema, et seda 1) kohe mustvalgelt ära politiseerida; 2) liiga tõsiselt võtta (nii palju lolli nalja saab teha).

Kultuuripärandi piirid on alati tõugata-tõmmata ja milgi määral poliitilised. Mul oli korra 1990-ndatel Joškar-Olas imelik, kui Lenini kuju pysimist põhjendati sellega, et ajalugu on oluline. Ja IRA hävitatud Briti mälestusmärke ei ole Iirimaal ka taastatud.

I really can't help thinking of them as Thought and Memory, Huginn and Muninn although Avrana Kern is clearly not Odin.

Roman Jakobson!

The red lines should ideally be embroidered in red yarn, as these have been inspired by traditional embroidered textiles.

seda võib käsitada ettevõtlusvormina, vrd ka mees-ilma-koerata-ettevõte

Usually the ħ is the telltale glyph, especially if there are odd Italian words in an otherwise non-Indo-European text. Basque has no very odd diacritics, though ñ might be a giveaway, especially if z & x are frequent.

[ðɛːʳ] is for "there", of course. My vocabulary notebooks had three columns: spelling, pronunciation in IPA, meaning (translation). So we were taught a new alphabet to make sense of the fact that spelling and pronunciation diverge. Most languages written with an alphabet don't have this problem.

I learnt to read in my first language that is written phonemically and I was initially, at 7 years old, taught English written in IPA, [kæt] for cat and [ðɛːʳ]; at some point the actual orthographic spellings were introduced, with IPA relegated to new vocabulary sections. Made sense.

First-language German instruction is thankfully free of problems specific to English. German orthography is phonemic and predictable but English uses a mess of inherited spellings that can be pronounced in various unpredictable ways: dictionaries for foreigners need to say how a word is pronounced.

Peter the Great taxed even civilian beards to discourage growing them

thus the so-called "tactical beards" go way back, apparently, and could be found even in some parts of the Byzantine military

"Arkhamians"; "A Portrait of the Cultist as a Young Man"

Of course Tolkien, a fan of the Kullervo cycle, used this motif in the tale of Túrin Turambar.

Currently halfway through "The Sword Unbound" and this passage from Kalevala (rune 36, end) keeps haunting me (this translation by John Martin Crawford, 1888):