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doug henning

2 years

Well, here goes: mastodon: @likethemagician @mastodon .online discord: Doug Henning #3704 instagram: @doughenningjr facebook: tiktok: @doughenningjr tumblr: @dauntlessdouglas

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doug henning

@likethemagician

4 years

This charming infographic is genocide denial animated.

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@simongerman600

4 years

Animated map shows the US population density. There is a lot of history condensed in this little map. Source:

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@RichardPJohn @SarahElzeini Except where it counts.

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@PepperDrawin @BOMBSHELL Personal 👏 property 👏 is 👏 different 👏 from 👏 privately👏 owned 👏 means 👏 of 👏 production 👏

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Ray Bradbury: In my book Fahrenheit 451, I invented the people-hunting Mechanical Hound as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the people-hunting Mechanical Hound from the classic sci-fi novel Fahrenheit 451.

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NEW - Throwflame unveils the "Thermonator" — the first-ever flame-throwing quadruped robot dog.

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@likethemagician

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@SwampCommunist Ah, yes, the utopian condition of… [checks notes] biting each other if we stray too close to each other’s territory.

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@likethemagician

4 years

It’s doing a great deal of ideological work, showing the North American continent as a terra nullius waiting to be settled by and filled with the only people who matter, American citizens.

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@likethemagician

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This involves an interesting feature of Sumerian: imperatives begin, rather than end, w/ the verb stem, followed by the rest of the prefix chain in its usual order: 𒀊𒁀 𒍣𒉺𒉘𒈬 𒋩𒈠 AB-BA ZI-PA-AŊ₂-ŊU₁₀ SUR-MA abba zipaŋ-ŋu sur-m-a-b father throat-my squeeze-VEN-FIN-3NH:DO

A. Z. Fοrеmаn: Sеrious Philology, Sillу Βеhavior

@azforeman

6 months

People ask me the strangest questions

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doug henning

@likethemagician

4 years

I know it’s a meme based on a restricted census data set, but you much more rarely see the complement: the estimated populations of those displaced and killed by American (and pre-American European colonial) settlers animated as a slow continent-spanning wave of ruination.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

6 months

Even earlier, Qazwīnī's "Wonders of Creation" (~1250CE) depicts Blemmyesesque wuraŋutan (ꦮꦸꦫꦤ꧀ꦒꦸꦠꦤ꧀) in Java: جزيرة جابة... فيها قوم شقر وجوههم على صدورهم... "On the island of Jāba... there is a tawny people whose faces are on their chests"

Odysseas 🇵🇸

@RealOdysseas

6 months

imagine being some portuguese explorer coming across this majestic being

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@SaintNeauxbody @motorresx @KeepItKlassy_ And as usual, since it’s about the borders of Oklahoma, the subjugation of Native peoples was its antecedent.

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@PolicyWorkshop3 @DavidVeevers1 @LeandadeLisle It is thought to be a cognate of cannabis via taboo metathesis of early Persian kānab(a) > *bānaka~bānaga > Hindi भाँग bhaṅg, Persian بنگ bang. Hemp is also related via κανναβις > West Germanic *hanapiz > Old English henep > hemp.

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doug henning

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This is the curse of the comparative linguist/anthropologist: your field of study’s specific knowledge overlaps with the obsessions of some of the worst people on the Internet. (Cf. also human genetics and Old English/Norse literature)

Marcel Dumas, PhD, IWSB 🇩🇴🇭🇹

@anarchyinblack

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If I ever met a white person in the real world who knew the difference between a Khoisan, a Yoruba, and an Afar, I would be 100% certain that they were among the most racist people I had ever encountered.

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@scottoland @MissPavIichenko @fightstickart Somebody made a meta-game out of this where they discuss game programming.

My Dinner with André by Gumpy Function

A Simpsons Fan Game for the Game Boy. Play in your browser

gumpyfunction.itch.io

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doug henning

@likethemagician

2 years

@puchicadanny @jcookanthro @warghetti It’s got lots of spellings: choquía, chuquilla, zoquía, etc. But it comes via Mexican Spanish from the Nahuatl stem xoquiya- in words like xoquiyaliztli “fetid smell, stench of sulfur” or xoquihyāya “for something to smell like egg”.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

4 years

Since this blew up, I recommend The Indian Slave Trade by Alan Gallay to learn more about the destruction of Native populations from FL to AK by war, slavery, and colonization. And support @Survival and the First Nations COVID-19 Emergency Fund:

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@likethemagician

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Big news for Internet Egyptology

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doug henning

@likethemagician

2 years

@Manaf217 @BaytAlFann Many on Soqotra speak a dialect of Arabic but there is also a Soqotri language, related to the Modern South Arabian languages like Mehri and Shehri in Yemen and Oman. These form their own branch of the Semitic family.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@greffoir204 @jlucchesi @BB996688 How do you scream?

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@likethemagician

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𓅓𓂝𓍿𓈖𓏦𓅡𓏱𓀀𓁷𓏤𓏏𓉔𓏏𓂾𓂻𓀀 𓂜𓄔𓅓𓈖𓀀𓈖𓆑 mt̠n b3.j ḥr nht.j n sdm.n.j n=f “Look, my soul is wronging me I cannot listen to him.” - Dispute of a Man with His Ba ca. 1850 BC

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It's actually well sustained by many scholars that the ancients did not have an inner sense similar to ours, that the subject of ancient greece was otherwise individuated. JP Vernant argues that there is no inner-monolog in the Iliad. Achilles for example, when he stops himself

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doug henning

@likethemagician

4 years

This is an excellent point. Oklahoma was "empty" until land rush when the government gave away millions of acres to settlers and the census kicked in.

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@HoboPolitic @SwampCommunist

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@likethemagician

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Yolngu WOTD rrupiya "money" < Makassarese ᨑᨘᨄᨗᨕ rupia < Sanskrit रूप्य rūpya "silver, rupee" Also doy' "money" < the inherited Makassarese word ᨉᨚᨕᨙ doe' "money" These & many other loans into Yolngu langs come from 18thC trepang hunters trading w/ the Top End (map).

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@PepperDrawin @BOMBSHELL Damn 👏 you 😡 hoist 👏 by 👏 our 👏 own 👏 petard 💣

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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Ah, yes, the Classical Tamil language of…[checks notes] Triassic Gondwanaland.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

6 months

Annual reminder on this, her most mistakenly holiest of days, that Ištar was never actually pronounced /ɪʃtar/ much less cognate with Easter. ʕAθtar (𒀭𒀾𒁯 AŠ₂-DAR) > Eɬtar (𒀭𒁹𒁯 EŠ₄-TAR₂) > Iɬtar (𒀭𒅖𒋻 IŠ-TAR, 𒀭𒋻 IL₃-TAR) > Iɬɬar (NB 𒀭𒅖𒄭 IŠ-ŠAR, NA 𒀭𒄑𒊬 IS-SAR)

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@LaymansLinguist

6 months

Etymologically speaking, no.

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@likethemagician

4 years

@europhile_ @bountay_ @TheEpicDept Marx was famously from a Jewish family. His father became Lutheran to stay employed as a lawyer. Allegations of “anti-Semitism” come from misreading Zur Judenfrage, an essay responding to Bruno Bauer’s worries about Jewish assimilation.

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@JenniferMusial @LoreeJSmitty Yep. Pali मेत्ता mettā is not only used in the Theravada Buddhist canon to describe the ideal of loving-kindness but descended from Sanskrit मैत्री maitrī “friendship” < मित्र mitra “friend, one bound to you”. So its etymology matches the way we are bound to each other by it.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

4 years

@PepperDrawin @BOMBSHELL So 👏 was 👏 my 👏 reply 👏

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doug henning

@likethemagician

3 years

New favorite Sinitic language: Dônđäc aka Jinhui dialect. It’s a Wu dialect with preglottalized voiced stops in lieu of the unaspirated series, likely a feature of the oldest dialects bordering Austroasiatic languages at the time of the initial spread of Old Wu.

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doug henning

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The whole conjugation of ee is funny. Here are some forms: ee = eat d’ee = ate gee = to eat eeee = will eat eeym = I’ll eat eeyms = I’ll EAT eemayd = we’ll eat eeagh = would eat eein = I’d eat eedeyr = eater n’eeee = will eat (dependent) Ta mee gee ee = I eat it (feminine obj)

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@AGHNN867 @SaintNeauxbody @motorresx @KeepItKlassy_ Indeed. I meant it was the condition for the slavery question to arise in the first place; the settlement of Texas and Oklahoma required the displacement and removal of Native peoples beforehand. It was an oppression that laid the groundwork for more oppression.

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@likethemagician

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@imjustluca @_living_well @Chinchillazllla @BudrykZack cat lawyer, his warrants malfeasant

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doug henning

@likethemagician

1 year

This scene would have gone on a lot longer if Henry Sr. had had to explain this to Indy

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doug henning

@likethemagician

4 years

Thanks for posting a version of the complement gif from the same account! No density data and limited to the US (Canada and Mexico don’t get off scot-free here) but at least it shows the land loss.

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@radiotystnad

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@JosefiniSthlm @SResjo @dahbjo @likethemagician Här är ett alternativ

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@digs680 @beefalosoldier It’s a classic

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Them: “So, what do you read in your spare time?” Me:

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@Pegasus1318 @D_McWaters @LilNasX Eald tūn rād

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@likethemagician

4 years

@voxdotcom Weird. This is from 3 minutes ago.

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@viperwave @Reverend_Carter Except George Miller

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@likethemagician

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@JenLovesBugs @theemdphd Did somebody say viscous cycle?

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@likethemagician

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New IPA unlocked: s = atswai ɑ = aae ks = recast f = gh ɪ = o ʃ = ti We can also spell “bookstores” as <brorcerecastbtawerpsss> with b = br from February ʊ = orce from Worcestershire t = bt from debt ɔ = awe from drawer ɹ = rps from corps z = ss from scissors

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god tier orthographic flex

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@CowardLegend @ToTheMaxMichael Not too shabby really.

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Catherine ζ-Jones

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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The chest-faced men of Java obv resemble early European depictions of Blemmyes (hist’ly the Beja of the upper Nile’s eastern desert) as acephaloi “headless”, but that belief I suspect comes from sightings of a different great ape: gorillas, whose modern range reaches South Sudan.

doug henning

@likethemagician

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Even earlier, Qazwīnī's "Wonders of Creation" (~1250CE) depicts Blemmyesesque wuraŋutan (ꦮꦸꦫꦤ꧀ꦒꦸꦠꦤ꧀) in Java: جزيرة جابة... فيها قوم شقر وجوههم على صدورهم... "On the island of Jāba... there is a tawny people whose faces are on their chests"

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doug henning

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If you happen to have an adventurous enough social life & think you might have an opportunity to pronounce this in the 3rd millennium BCE-style, I recommend something like: [ap'pa, tsipʰaŋ'ŋu 'surmap!] w/ usual final stress but hypothetical initial stress on the imperatives.

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@promisewoo @XCXBABES @bjorkspears @shrekswifey2 @xenbie Once you realize Lorelai, Rory, and Emily are all broken and terrible in their own ways, all the pieces of the show come together.

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@AwfulPundits @LLW902

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@shrikex0r @ellle_em @cathyepage @kim_crawley Fascism abroad eventually comes home.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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Among the Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq, the general negator is عيب ʕēb < “shame, fault”. It likely developed from ʕēb-iḏa-VERB “a shame if VERB” a construction still attested for negation in qeltu dialects further upriver, north of Tikrit.

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@Dr_W_E_Bulmer @CoKeynesian Nothing new about that:

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@likethemagician

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@Verdun_Gal @DannyDutch Here’s a review article of the various lithophones that have been discovered, mostly as parts of caves that show signs of being repeatedly struck to maximize resonance.

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@likethemagician

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To represent the ǃXóõ vowels, you could use the octonions: height, backness, nasalization, murmuration, glottalization, pharyngealization, stridency, length.

Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠

@langofmind

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If imaginary numbers just give an additional axis for the vowel chart, arguably languages are already using it! Vowels can vary in lots of dimensions: height, backness, rounding, tone, phonation, and length.

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@likethemagician

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Moreover, this map is a great example, as they say here, of how data that is incomplete or too coarsely analyzed misleads and reinforces particular historical interpretations.

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@Interactioneer

4 years

An example of data being used to adjust the way we think. And in this example, not in a good way.

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@jqayyye @carterforva I came to make this joke. But let’s not forget Aaron Burr who conspired to attack Mexico with a hired army to establish a slave empire in the Southwest.

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@AGHNN867 @SaintNeauxbody @motorresx @KeepItKlassy_ Absolutely. They're deeply entwined and overlapping. But I get the concern about focus.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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ipa guys are like “check out this sound, really hard to pronounce right? isn’t that awesome?”

rudy betrayed

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ipa guys are like “try this beer, tastes terrible right? isn’t that awesome?”

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@mcflattop @Charliestolz @Roborosky15 The Navigators are gonna be a lot weirder-looking when they show up in Messiah

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@IcarFaem @AlsikkanTV That’s the book the movie was based on. They changed the title to Framed. The sequel (of a sort) is Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?

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To quote the Hyksos using the script of the turquoise miners of the Sinai: 𓏴𓀠𓏲𓂧𓆓𓈖𓁶𓂧𓉐𓏴𓉐𓁶𓁶𓁶𓁶𓁶𓁶 thlkn mrkbt b-rrrrrr /tahlukūna mirkabātu bi-rurururururu/ 3p-go-PL chariot-NOM.FPL brrrrrrr

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@LiatLNS @PepperDrawin @BOMBSHELL It’s important to distinguish products from the machinery and buildings used to make them. Owning the latter (the means of production) functions as leverage capitalists wield over labor to maintain power. This Quora answer covers a lot of the bases too.

Why do communists make a distinction between private property and personal property?

Answer (1 of 8): Because it is an important distinction to make. Owning a t-shirt (personal property) and owning a factory that manufactures a t-shirt (private property) are radically different forms...

www.quora.com

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@likethemagician

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Gov. Landry: “Moses, the original lawgiver.” 𒌷𒅗𒄀𒈾 (Urukagina):

The Recount

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) invokes biblical figures as he signs a law requiring public school classrooms in the state to display the Ten Commandments: “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses."

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@puchicadanny @jcookanthro @warghetti I suspect chuquilla is actually a kind of folk etymology that interprets choquiya as chuco + -illa! This is called an eggcorn, after the example of mishearing of acorn as egg + corn.

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doug henning

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Not to be outdone, here's "OK, boomer" in Early Dynastic Sumerian proto-cuneiform Old Babylonian signs: 𒀭𒈾𒋗𒄄 <an-na šu-gi₄> /ʔan=ak šugi/ [ʔana ʃuki] heaven=GEN senior/unfit.for.work "Indeed, elder" (Betcha didn't realize gi₄ was a wheat stalk...)

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@likethemagician

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I prefer *[t].mˤaw lˤrak tˤoŋ

Leanne 莉安 ⭐️🚩

@Leannenist

1 year

If you spell Mao like Mao Tse-Tung, I am instantly suspicious of you.

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@SwampCommunist @Dante45p Also greater amounts of preserved habitat

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@europhile_ @bountay_ @TheEpicDept Yes. Read the context. It’s wordplay; he switches back and forth, using Judentum in both meanings. He’s riffing on the cultural stereotype of Jews as hucksters and how they won’t be free of that until “Judentum” i.e. commerce under capitalism is abolished.

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Following a convo with @ZachMRubin (and consultation of Jagersma 2010) we have a new rendition: 𒀜𒁕 𒈁𒈬𒇇 ad-da ere₁₃-mu-u₈ adda ere-mu-ʔ father throttle-ventive-1sgDO Probably 3rd millennium [ʔetsʰemuʔ] since the OB reading e-re with a LU sign may indicate the ř-phoneme.

doug henning

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@ZachMRubin I found 𒋗𒁇𒈬𒇇 šu bar-mu-u₈ šu bar-mu-ʔ hand open-ventive-1sgFPP “set me free” with the glottal first person object so we could probably say “Adda, eremuʔ !”

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@TrekCore Obviously the title “Vōx” actually refers to her glorious return.

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@likethemagician

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PSA: thanks to cuneiform, we can reconstruct יהוה as being pronounced /jahwa/ with a mater lectionis -ה, realized variously later as alphabetic yw /ja:wa/, yhw /jahu~jaho/, and ⲓⲁⲟ /ja:w/.

doug henning

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@azforeman It’s been done in Neo-Babylonian: 𒀭𒅀𒀀𒄷𒌑 DINGIR-ia-a-ḫu-ú = Yahû 𒀭𒅀𒀀𒈠 DINGIR-ia-a-ma = Ya(h)wa Cf. Tropper’s article

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@starfoxmike @staticbluebat @punishedzizek Find the real one.

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@LeavittAlone The last time I glanced at the library books on the black Billy shelf the libraries had been closed for a month, and I wondered if I would have chosen differently if I had known these were the last books, the ones that would live forever in our apartment.

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@likethemagician

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@SwampCommunist Probably a mix of social pressure combined with the horrors of the present Gaza invasion. This go-round has radicalized a lot more people.

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@likethemagician

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Forever? For evre, evre? For ǣfre, ǣfre? For ā in fēore, ā in fēore? Furi aiwą in firhiwi, aiwą in firhiwi? Preh₂i h₂óyu h₁én pr̥kʷéwey, h₂óyu h₁én pr̥kʷéwey?

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@likethemagician

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@smilingnodding What’s the most you ever lost in a fortune teller?

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Proposed Afroasiatic topologies! Tag yourself. I’m Bender 2007 (minus Omotic)* *Unless the prefix conjugation is not inherited from pAA, in which case I’m closer to Voigt 1989.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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Here is a terrific demonstration of the complexities of Mayan hieroglyphs. Glyph conflation is like Brahmic conjunct consonants on steroids.

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@likethemagician

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@Alejandro27655 @iaspidefulva Egyptology is OKAnubis

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A common one used to! Modern “sneeze” comes from Old English fneosan which derives from Proto-Indo-European *pnew-, so it’s cognate with Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma) “breath” and Swedish fnysa “snort”.

Michael Bench-Capon

@MikeBenchCapon

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Why don't English speakers struggle to say things like "fnargle" and "fnub"? None of our actual words begin like that

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@likethemagician

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@_drpepperswife @lobohombreriera @abs_sweetmarie Herbert describes a very Lynchian Navigator in Chapterhouse:Dune, published after the movie.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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Pharyngeal-nasal confusion is not uncommon. It also happens in ayin-bearing Hebrew words in Yiddish, famously the name יענקי Yanky < diminutive יאַעקל Yaŋkl, < יעקבֿ Yaŋkov < Heb. יעקב Yaʕqob “Jacob” with ŋ reflecting ʕ.

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@likethemagician

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/i:ʔ/

Anthony Bonato

@Anthony_Bonato

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I've always wondered how to pronounce ∃

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@grapefruitzzz @YAMCHAnthegangZ @EPM106 @emgeejay @SkyRaiderG7 Assignment:Earth It was supposed to be the soft pilot for a spinoff show about Gary Seven and Isis, his shapeshifting cat, along with Terri Garr as Roberta Lincoln, his secretary who discovers he works for aliens.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@_THEREALFBI @tmkeesey @WyattDuncan

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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鳥居 (とりい /torii/) “temple gate” actually comes from Japanese 鳥 /tori/ “bird” + 居 (ゐ *wi, modern /i/) “seat”, a nominalization of 居る *wiru (modern iru) “exist, be”

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@arabic_bad

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@easycartoons @limitlessjest

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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Link to the British Library's manuscript of ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt, backed up at the Qatar Digital Library:

‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā ibn...

The London Qazwīnī. Encyclopaedic work on cosmology by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد بن محمود القزويني, d. 1283). The text is lavishly illustrated with 368 paintings. In t

www.qdl.qa

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@bradkasbird @ziibiing Same thing happened in Cheyenne: mo:swa > mo’é “elk” and this was extended to mo'éhno'ha “elk-dog” = “horse”.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

4 years

@europhile_ @bountay_ @TheEpicDept Marx’s target as always was the capitalist system. He’s addressing the stereotype in hyperbolic fashion to argue that political emancipation requires not emancipation from Judentum-Jewishness as Bauer argued but emancipation from the sarcastically substituted Judentum-commerce.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@nicomuhly

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doug henning

@likethemagician

3 years

When your dialect has both nonrhoticity and the cot-caught merger

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doug henning

@likethemagician

1 year

A beautiful new translation by @SophusHelle of this Neo-Assyrian lament, also published as "Elegy for a Woman Dead in Childbirth". The cuneiform and Andrew George's transliteration are below:

Sophus Helle

@SophusHelle

1 year

The Assyrian Elegy: an anonymous poem, c. 700 BCE, mourning a woman who died in childbirth.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

3 years

Hauling out /h/ a 🧵

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doug henning

@likethemagician

1 year

Occurs to me that the standard French formulation of the three daily meals is the equivalent of calling breakfast “little breakfast”, lunch “breakfast“, and dinner “brekkie”.

doug henning

@likethemagician

1 year

Swiss is more conservative here, since déjeuner (like Spanish desayunar) literally means to break a fast, from des- added to jeuner < Latin ieiunare “to fast”. But amusingly so does dîner, itself from Old French disner (hence the circumflex) < disiunare < Latin disiēiūnāre. 1/2

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@blueB0wser @pleeshelpme @HypraSeaPea @ciscofur Sneed isn’t nonsense, just a word we don’t use anymore. Comes from Old English snæd “cut off”, referring to a detached island. It’s related to snide (“cutting” wit) which derives from the now more obscure snithe “to cut, lance”

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@mugrimm @Lexialex An interesting discussion. Allow me to add an additional perspective on race and socialism from Kwame Ture (of SNCC and the Black Panthers) if you hadn’t seen it: This channel is excellent btw. Full of speeches by Angela Davis, Sankara, et al.

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doug henning

@likethemagician

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@LeavittAlone We rarely moved things; we busied ourselves with the small objects, the macbooks & the succulents & the iphones. We zoomed & made bread & swept under tables & couches & beds & beanbag chairs, but left them where they were; the tortoise-shell toilet paper holder was never empty.

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