🚨SPOTTED🚨 Luwian glyphs in this Turkish kids book at the Sydney language bookstore

Anyone happen to have the textbook Азербайджанский язык без репетитора or know where I can buy it?

The Dutch words ‘zolder’ (“attic”) and ‘solarium’ (“tanning salon”) are doublets: they both stem from Latin ‘sōlārium’ (“roof terrace”). Dutch ‘solarium’ is a late borrowing, while ‘zolder’ was borrowed into the Germanic ancestor of Dutch. Here’s number 9 in my series: Dutch doublets from Latin.

do you also sometimes feel like literally anything worth doing in life requires knowledge of Persian poetry

Syriac sentence of the day: ܚܘܐ ܚܝܠܐ ܥܙܝܙܐ ܘܬܩܝܦܐ ܕܐܠܗܘܬܟ ܕܥܡ ܐܢܫܘܬܟ ܚܕܐ ܗܘܬ. ḥawwā ḥaylā ʕazzizā w-ṯaqqifā ḏ-alāhuṯāk d-ʕam nāšuṯāk ḥḏā=wāt "Show a great and powerful wonder of your divinity, which was one with your humanity."

Coptic word of the day ϣ(ⲉ)ⲡ-ⲡ⸗-ϩⲙⲁⲧ "thank, be grateful" as in P. Kell. Copt. 53 81.18-20 (ed. Gardner, Kell. Lit. 2) ⲛⲑⲉ ⲟⲩⲛ ⲉⲧⲁⲓ̈ϣⲡ⳿ ⲡⲟⲩϩⲙⲁⲧ⳿ ϣⲡ⳿ ⲡⲟⲩϩⲙⲁⲧ⳿ ϩⲱⲕ⳿ "So be grateful to them yourself, just like I've been grateful to them"

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.

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?

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.

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]

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.

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

What's the probability of no one grabbing their own name when picking secret Santas? (Spoiler alert: e appears here!)

Hey what's with this diminutive(??) suffix -ukka? 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

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.

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)

toddler adding ergativity to Spanish by saying "me quiere.." for "yo quiero.."

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

It turns out the abyss was actually staring at someone it knows behind me. Embarrassing.

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！ 😁🎄🤶

All the good typographers are part of the resistance

hear me out. these are just arabic conjugational prefixes (t-, y-) added to french verbs 😎

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.

the toddler was around the corner w her abuelo & the dog, she comes back saying sth like /gamano/ presumably imitating sth she heard. we couldn't figure it out but i asked her what it meant. she thinks & says "nicht Gras!" turns out abuelo was saying "grama, no" telling the dog to stay off the lawn.

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi is one of 13 Americans killed by Israeli forces in Palestine since 2003. The Israeli government has not held anyone criminally accountable for these crimes. DAWN is calling on Congress to demand that the State Department investigate these killings: dawnmena.org/u-s-congress...

some memorials to Gaza genocide victims in a bookstore in Ponce, PR

youtu.be/sxfxy-3dGz0?... it's a known problem!

Trials when

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

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There's a major design oppurtunity awaiting any filmmaker who wants to put something wild onscreen by drawing on what we know of actual bronze-age fashion, that's all I'm saying

In Breton, you get triwec'h (three six) for saying eighteen. You also get tri-ugent (three twenty) for saying sixty and hanter-kant (half hundred) for saying fifty.

see here for more Latin+Aramaic transcription/translation information romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions...

in my mind certain languages have this little curtain between "weird teen words" and "normal teen words" and i often mix up where that curtain falls 11 12 Dutch English German 13 14 15 Spanish 16 French Italian i think 17 18 19

was just ordering coffee here in puerto rico and had to tell them how many ounces i wanted. i couldn't come up with '16' and was standing there pondering what the Spanish cognate of Fr. 'seize' < sēdecim should be. i was about to say sth like *seice until memory kicked in and i said dieciséis

Again, nobody really denies that Israel is an apartheid state anymore, the only question is whether or not you think that's good.

Syriac sentence of the day: ܚܡܪܐ ܥܠ ܐܪܥܐ ܐܫܕ ܗܘܐ. ܘܡ̈ܐܢܐ ܒܚܢܗ ܣܐܡ ܗܘܐ. ḥamrā ʕal arʕā āšeḏ=wā w-mānē ḇ-ḥanneh sā'em=wā "He was spilling the wine on the ground and putting the goblets in his lap." (Alexander the Great, in disguise as his own ambassador, being a dick in the court of Darius III)

There is modern Sanskrit literature about everything. There is also a Sanskrit epic poem about Jesus Christ, titled Kristubhāgavatam, published by P.C. Devassia in 1977, which won the main Sanskrit literary prize in 1980 😁

good news: Arthur Rimbaud at age 15 wrote a mini-epic in Latin hexameter about the ancient Numidian king Jugurtha bad news: it's a subtle nod to the French occupation of Algeria and the futility of resistance

Renaissance-era Latin sentence of the day in 1526, when the city of Basel goes into lockdown after a sudden explosion, Erasmus is cautioned to remain indoors because, as he writes, "It's not very safe to run into armed men; weapons instill wildness in the mind, especially when there's no danger."

who wants to do this with me in 2026

There was a general strike last week in Portugal and this guy I was talking to today was not teaching and didn't have any meetings so he had to email HR like "btw I'm also on strike, please put me on the list if you didn't notice my absence"