@pymundgenealogy.bsky.social do you know who this rabbi mizrachi person is?

natan is a sound root, so what's up with latet being the infinitive?

Lost battles of hebrew academy part 1765443: MH speakers use hevi for give as well as bring (natan is still predominant for give I think)

بیلزن is plougher right? اگر بیلزنی باغچه خودتو بیل بزن "If you are a plougher plough your own garden"

There's a person on here I love, but they are on here way WAY too much, to the point where they have online enemies and grudges and stuff. I wanna tell them to delete bsky and twt, but it feels cruel to say so

Interesting tweet of the day: A polish person quoting a tweet about a holocaust victim. They say the tweet was using the tragedies of victims to spread propoganda (the tweet doesn't directly mention israel but the og had zionist in bio so...). But then they refer to this as "My history of my people"

Someone get these wiktionary editors a journal I wanna hear more

Pareidola is said to be an evolved trait, but isn't it just a side effect of... seeing? Neural networks have pareidola too, but no one trained them to have it, just a side effect of being trained to "see"

I really thought the orange part was islam's innovation but here we are I guess

Twitter's new arabic font...

Rap has quantitative meter right?

Gmar tov to all my observing followers! Remember health comes first fasting later

You can give hebrew 1 sound change/morphological change/ whatever at a time. What is the minimum set of changes required to make hebrew into arabic? Dialects are allowed, choose your favorite, from any time period for either

Weird conglomeration of the day: xatar monitoring (خطر مانیتورینگ) "risk assessment"

درس ادیب اگر بود زمزمهٔ محبتی جمعه به مکتب آورد طفل گریزپای را - A fucking liar 500 years ago

only = one + ly 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Today's mispronounciation: honekstly (honestly, columbian woman)

Shana tova umetuqa to all my observing followers! 🎊🎊🎊🎊

This is money laundering right? Trump is trying to send a huge sum to johnson and johnson in the guise of the lawsuit that's gonna come

How did nouns like قاض happen? Why is the declension so weird?

Herodotus records some sort of arabian female deity Alilāt. So *han- was already *al by ~430 BC. Kinda thought it was way older

"I think in arabic the q in Al qaeda is that kind of sound" - phonology lecture 1, place of articulation

Most interesting paper I've read in 2025. A whole new perspective on japanese, will help me make more native-like outputs. Honestly more helpful than a lot of textbooks I've read doi.org/10.1075/tsl....

My professoe is white. He says some of his /s/ as /ʃ/ (first -> firsht). Where is he from?

If باش bāš from older bawāš, I wonder if کاش kāš from older kawāš. But there is no root kaw-, so probably not

مند as a suffix is basically obsolete, but they did make 1 more word before the end: آبرومند "dignified"

Had a small hit of a mansplaining moment when this guy was trying to explain how old persian is basically sanskrit like ok right right ohhhhh

I read sharghzadeh tweets the same way I used to read counterpunch in highschool it's like cathartic selfharm kinda with a sprinkle of that svene in 1984 where they were shouting at that foreign president

عشایر have 2 locations. During the summer they come to their summer areas (یِیلاق), during winter they go to their winter areas (قِشلاق)

If you think about it a kimono is just a sleeved toga

The usual argument for why english doesn't "look germanic" is sth sth normans but some of these changes are just like, english is rly innovative. Like decking mit out for with, or getting rid of V2

چیست که almost sounds like qu'est-ce que, but is not cognate with it at all. Tune in next time for more unfun linguistic not really facts

Wait hathor isn't ha-thor she's hat-hor

How can writing be a recent invention if our brains do it automatically?

Wikipedia says offspring evolve to maximise parental investment in themselves at a cost to their sibilings. Wouldn't it make evolutionary sense for the offspring to cause its mother's infertility? Maybe by destroying the womb on exit? I wonder why no animal has evolved like this yet

Scallops taste god awful i rly don't know the insistence of putting them on seafood pasta

I actually really liked AI class now that I look back honestly. But learning how it works kinda takes the fun out of AI, like it's just matrox multiplication??? Ok

A tru topologist would know that a dress is a 3 holed torus

The republicans are gonna ban interracial marriage so forgive me for saying this but I hope the people who were saying democrats are just as evil as republicans are haunted by the suffering they've caused forever

Apparently the word actually is persian in origin. But more importantly persian has no native word for "but", which is weird

That's certainly... a way to transcribe that

If a=b and b=c then a=c, but if a~=b and b~=c then not necessarily a~=c. In fact a~=b also does not imply b~=a even though the difference between the numbers is identical in both cases (19 is about 20, but 20 isn't about 19)

Rice is a borrowed cognate of برنج!! The more you know

What's up with old persian forming infinitives from past participles?

This is the closest to modern english sentence I have ever seen in old english. It basically looks like early modern

5 percent is literally 5 per cent a.k.a 5 for every 100 a.k.a 5/105 = 4.76%

When you put Proto-semitic next to most semitic languages, you're like "oh I can see that, that's a beautiful easy transition". Not sth you can say about IE

Wiktionary says from french eschec et mat. This is a lot closer to the actual persian word for checkmate: کیش و مات, kīš means check, māt means "checkmate" on its own, really just "game end"

If checkmate is from شاه مات where does the "ck" come from? I call bullshit

Rumi keeps rhyming می‌کنم like the present stem of kardan is kan- instead of kon-