Philological Essayist @PhilologicalEssayist@qoto.org
Always eager to broaden knowledge, and my digital library, on languages and philology. Writes at: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com
Joined Nov 2022
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“the chosen one” meme is not enough
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RT @kevinrothrock
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/6/23673043/twitter-substack-embeds-bots-tools-api
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1644375890892029963
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RT @PhDniX
Here's a Proto-Amazigh reconstruction as requested by @irzastan . Big thanks to @ait_kisou who had a lot of excellent suggestions while translating this. Again, happy to answer any questions on the reconstruction! https://twitter.com/bnuyaminim/status/1641770193788469249
A new post on Substack for the first time in quite some time: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/p/a-sign-of-life-after-quite-some-time?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
New article authored by yours truly. On a project concerning endangered manuscripts in Southeast Asia. https://digitalorientalist.com/2023/03/28/dreamsea/ #DigitalHumanities #SoutheastAsia #Philology
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The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked
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@linguistics @languagelearners #indigenouslanguages
Fundraising campaign by an indigenous grassroots organization aimed at priting 2000 copies of a Nawat dictionary for free distribution. Nawat is the last, endangered Uto-Aztecan language in El Salvador. 👇
@DrJHAmsterdam I guess Post or Spoutible will be the prime candidates to succeed Twitter. I heard good things about the latter, but it's also the platform that was launched more recently (criticism will become more common over time). Mastodon has its raison d'être, but with its decentralized architecture come some setbacks (could be mitigated or offset with some strong bookmarking and group functions).
Oops, this week has been underway for quite some days, and I have not posted this week's music/album recommendation yet. So to make amends here it is: Zarathustra (both name of band and title of the album) (1972) - https://youtu.be/vbDQbECT8B0.
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I have a little article on the history of translation in #Iranian cultures in Sonja Brentjes's new book on #sciences in #Islamicate societies:
Zeini, Arash. 2022. Multiple translation activities: Translation in Iranian cultures. In Sonja Brentjes (ed.), Routledge handbook on the sciences in Islamicate societies: Practices from the 2nd/8th to the 13th/19th centuries. Routledge.
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The authorities in St. Petersburg are looking for the hackers responsible for recently hijacking screens at the Hermitage museum to display images of Russian war atrocities committed at Bucha. https://www.fontanka.ru/2023/01/31/72019754/
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RT @bnuyaminim@twitter.com
Northwest #Semitic languages have a special particle for 'there is/are', 'il y a', 'es gibt' etc.: #Hebrew yēš, #Syriac iṯ, #Biblical #Aramaic ʔīṯay, #Ugaritic i͗ṯ, etc. Based on the *yi- vs. *ʔī-, Lipiński reconstructs the stem as *yθ, with no vowel! 1/13
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bnuyaminim/status/1619996809736376322
Another week, another album recommendation from yours truly. This time it's Second Life, a West German hard rock band, with its eponymous album from 1971. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLtvjOIXY9c (Next week I'll recommend something more typical of Krautrock).
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RT @shakerr_ahmed@twitter.com
German in Arabic script!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/shakerr_ahmed/status/1618654509999480832
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As some of you will know, I have just started my ERC Consolidator Grant project QurCan "The Canonization of the Qurʾānic Reading Traditions". I'm currently looking to fill two post-doctoral positions to join the project as soon as possible!
Retweets very much appreciated!
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On the topic of macrons (◌̄, ¯, ¯: one of the #diacritics featured in the major latinization systems for #Ottoman Turkish, hence used e.g. in our https://github.com/QHOD/ota-keyboard input method), we learn from a nice editorial cartoon that those matter in other languages as well, namely for Māori: https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/24-01-2023/the-side-eye-the-stink-a. Thanks @klim for sharing #encoding #typography
My personal musical recommendation for coming week: Toad (1971) from Switzerland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SB13tb9YKg
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New article out on my Substack site: 天學問答 - Argumentative Text Against Catholicism by Korean Scholar An Chŏngbok 安鼎福 from 1790 AD) - Part 1. Many more parts will follow. Read, and enjoy! Critical comments always welcome, as well as new subscribers to my (free, I may add) Substack newsletter! - Link: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/p/argumentative-text-against-catholicism .
New article out on my Substack site: 天學問答 - Argumentative Text Against Catholicism by Korean Scholar An Chŏngbok 安鼎福 from 1790 AD) - Part 1. Many more parts will follow. Read, and enjoy! Critical comments always welcome, as well as new subscribers to my (free, I may add) Substack newsletter! - Link: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/p/argumentative-text-against-catholicism .
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RT @gyankotsu@twitter.com
a quick reminder about why learning tangut characters separately is a bad choice
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gyankotsu/status/1613385731334103047
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THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer
Always eager to broaden knowledge, and my digital library, on languages and philology. Writes at: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com
Joined Nov 2022
