kobayashi ḫamṭu
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language enjoyer, he/him
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Standing Together
about 3 hours ago
A horrifying attack: Last night, Israeli settlers attacked the outskirts of Taybeh, a Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank. They set fields on fire, threw Molotov cocktails at homes, and attempted to torch a gas station. (1/4)
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bobby
about 2 hours ago
recently got a glimpse of intra-italian racism when one of my friends got called a “tomato italian” by a self-described “lemon italian”
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Markˣ
about 1 hour ago
Emiratis from Fujairah have two major tribes and they greet each other "how are your onions" and "how is your honey" as a jest, because that is what they are known for.
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n8wau, Sir nummonchem, qut mata monchu. "He says, 'Sir, I'm going,' but he does not go." (Matt. 21:30)
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Massachusett word of the day: num-monchem */nə-mãːtʃiː-m/ "I go" monchu */mãːtʃiː-w/ "she goes, he goes" (note the suggested relationship to Sanskrit mañc- "move", etc. 😅)
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Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic
about 17 hours ago
Speakers of Lebanese (or other Levantine) Arabic - I have a question! What is the difference between: 1) mā ǝl-u žlēde 2) mā byeˀdar 3) mā ˁam yeˀdar 4) miš ˀēder
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Rachel Eugenia
about 19 hours ago
From an Assimal book published in 1979 in a lesson called “on the airplane” when was the last time you asked for cigarettes on a flight?
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i'm not usually a "the old ways were better" guy but i recently bought a box of ticonderoga #2 pencils and a manual sharpener, and wow i didn't realize how much i missed this tactile experience. plus i can always physically see how much pencil i have left. and i can erase stuff!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
about 21 hours ago
Update on Huda: She is still under observation, struggling to breath, and her body is still bloated. But, she's improving. Thanks to you all over 2,000 was raised yesterday. Can we keep it going for this family?
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Stephen Hopkins
1 day ago
"king of the Franks" Among the wurst puns I've seen
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Prof. Nicole Holliday
1 day ago
At a coffee shop in Memphis: Customer: “What’s shakin’ bacon?” Barista: “well you know, I’m feeling like a small ball in tall grass”. Humans remain undefeated at language 🤩
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Massachusett word of the day: mohkissonash */mahkəsən-aʃ/ shoe-INAN.PL "shoes"
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update: i say this all the time now
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Ματθίας Γκρεμοχωριός
2 days ago
I need to do more investigation but the Italian version of Athenaze may possibly be an unexploited mine of potential future wojak memes.
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can somebody explain to me why "I love a man" sounds OK to me (= 'there's a man that i love') but for some reason "I love a book", to mean a specific book, is triggering my ungrammaticality sensor (unless it means 'I love books'/'I love a [good] book')
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Local Observer🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉
2 days ago
If Iraqis hadn't taught the world how to read and write thousands of years ago I wouldn't have had to suffer from reading your shite takes now in 2026.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker
2 days ago
I recently got some incredible news: I've received a grant from the Cosmos Institute (
cosmos-institute.org
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Cosmos Institute
Cosmos Institute is the Academy for Philosopher Builders
https://cosmos-institute.org
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this specific thing (where you encode not the subject or object, but 1. highest-person participant and then 2. whether the subject is higher or lower than the object, hierarchically) is AFAIK common throughout the Algonquian languages but otherwise I'm not sure. QTing so others can answer too
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Jay Moschella
2 days ago
As is typically the case, the pages of the haggadah are stained with food and wine from centuries of use at the seder table. The gutters are actually full of matzah crumbs! Anyhow, this is not Boston Public Library f.2026.54
bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...
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Thierry Ennui
2 days ago
(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this
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Dr. Jeremy Swist
2 days ago
Translating "ὦ μακάριε" in Plato's dialogues as "bless your heart!"
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a bit of historical phonology i don't fully understand yet is why M -sh corresponds with Abenaki -l, both in this INV morpheme and in the inanimate plural ending -ash/-al (but not much otherwise; W Ab /l/ normally = M /n/). what happened word-finally?
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Massachusett word of the day: koowomonish ken */kə-wamãːn-əʃ kiːn/ 2-love-INV 2SG "I love you" the INV "theme marker" morpheme tells us that the person hierarchy (i.e. 2 > 1 > 3 > 3') is inverted, with a 1 subject acting on a 2 object.
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the purpose of a system is what it does
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 days ago
Read this whole piece.
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Eliot Higgins
3 days ago
Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:
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Nick Stone
3 days ago
He lives in a pineapple under the sea.
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Leah McElrath
3 days ago
The directive from Bari Weiss to make the protesters killed by ICE look “more violent” came after Scott Pelley voluntarily had already gone to great pains to make them look violent in the first place:
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Massachusett word of the day: netomppaog */n-iːtãːpaː-ak/ 1-friend-ANIM.PL "my friends" cf. Abenaki nidôbak /nidɑ̃ˈbak/
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Anthony Etherin
3 days ago
DISTANT MUSIC (Palindrome) Emote to me. Refill a note. By eking, I sedate my awe. Now all I give, lines dash, promote, to visit inward — rose, yet raw. Art eyes, or drawn it is. I vote to morph sad, senile vigil. Law, one way, met a design I key. Be tonal, life remote to me!
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول
3 days ago
Iraq's World Cup star Aymen Hussein was detained and questioned for nearly seven hours after arriving at Chicago O'Hare Airport with the national team. Hussein was eventually allowed into the United States, but team photographer Talal Salah was denied entry after being held for more than 10 hours.
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elia ayoub
3 days ago
7 months old. He was in his mum’s arms when the Israelis shot him dead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/palestinian-baby-shot-dead-israeli-troops-occupied-west-bank
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#StupidSuez
4 days ago
Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby
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Danielle Binks
4 days ago
Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/palestinian-baby-shot-dead-israeli-troops-occupied-west-bank
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Issa Amro
4 days ago
The funeral! They took another innocent life! We will remember his name: "Sam Fahd Abu Haykal" He will meet Hind Rajab and the over 3.000 of palestinian children killed in Gaza by the Israeli Army in heaven. 5/5
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Goots (ready for Fall 🍁)
4 days ago
Thinking about this very Central PA English - "don't" in third person - "rather" as a verb - "lotta people that's gonna miss it"
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Residents Devastated After Dunkin’ Donuts Closed by Fire
YouTube video by WNEP
https://youtu.be/Q1IXyujNbVE?si=SSgbSA2nVqiQLEoZ
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Joel S.
4 days ago
"Authenticity" is overrated as a political ideal. Everyone is ultimately performing. We should want people to signal virtue rather than vice, even if it is ultimately insincere. The idea that inner authenticity matters more than actions is a culturally Protestant one anyway.
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Massachusett word of the day: unnont8waonk */ənãːtəwaːãːk/ "language" the first part is the root for "speak", and -onk (*wãːk-) is a suffix that forms abstract nouns. cf. Abenaki lôdwawôgan
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she just said "der banane" and immediately corrected herself to "die banane". first time i have noticed this
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#StupidSuez
4 days ago
Yeah lol Gallant literally declared genocidal intent on Oct 8th. People are just mad that some were correct that early.
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kadxudā
5 days ago
There is a particle xu(b), from Persian, in the Iraq-Gulf region which is used similarly IMO (screenshot is about Iraqi). Although it has more uses beyond that.
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is it true that, in English, non-final /ŋ/ is only followed directly by a vowel if there's a morpheme boundary between them (e.g. hang-er) or if the word sounds like a word with a morpheme boundary (e.g. hangar)? what's an example of a monomorphemic word with /ŋ/ followed by a vowel that isn't /ɚ/?
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!
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Yair Wallach
5 days ago
Haaretz: IDF soldier shoots and kills 7 month old baby in Hebron, wounding his parents
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Joel S.
5 days ago
“Germany can swiftly compensate victims of the Holocaust while invoking strict legal technicalities to deny reparations to Africans.”
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘They are disturbing the dead’: reconstructing the site of the forgotten first genocide of the 20th century
At least 3,000 Herero and Nama people died in a German concentration camp at Shark Island, Namibia. A new forensic exhibition in Berlin is using digital technology to unearth how colonisers scarred a ...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/05/namibia-shark-island-herero-nama-genocide-fractured-lifeworlds-spore-initiative-berlin-forensic
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Felicia Davin
5 days ago
super long shot, but does anybody around here speak Provençal? or anything in the Occitan language family? I have a word question
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although (to OP's point) there's nothing stopping a willing neo-latinist from using them
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