just realised i think i have both centre and center orthographically sometimes i don't think it's a 100% consistent distinction but i think maybe centre is like the place (usually a something centre), but the middle of something is a center something?

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

i really need to stop looking at the comments on anything related to the artemis mission i'm getting ragebaited so hard

Yay space :)

when did everyone decide that everything that happens involving the US is actually a distraction from something else? i feel like i missed the memo

ça fait huit ans que je suis venue au québec en tant qu’immigrante et on a *jamais* questionné le fait que je sois ici on prétend souvent qu’être contre l’immigration c’est pas être raciste, mais j’ai de la misère à imaginer que c’est pas parce que je suis blanche

New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism ideophone.org/oxford-unive... Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it #academicsky

potentially stupid question, but does anyone know if there's anything about the arabic prepositions most transparently derived from nouns (like ones that just look like the construct accusative of an existing noun) that actually makes them not nouns?

i feel like papers (and other stuff too, for that matter) should link to archived versions of pages so they they're less likely to just end up with dead links within a few years that will just continue to point to nothing for the rest of eternity

I love that الإشمام, which seems to refer to pronouncing /y/ in some contexts, is the verbal noun of 'make sniff/smell'. I never would have thought to describe it that way but it just kinda makes sense