Arrived in Prague and ran in to the fantastically interesting Danny Bate who wowed me with linguistics snippets over 🫖 and mezze 🫒 🫓.

My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you

Merovingian cursive:

Just getting ready to record my podcast debut - wish me luck!
See you soon Danny Bate !

Over the years, Prague has served as the backdrop to many great music videos. In this post I write about my four favorites (with the YouTube links), plus a few honorable-mention picks in the photos. There are lots of household names. Did I get it right?
markbakerprague.com/best-music-vid…

What an excellent article about epenthesis! It helped me understand why we have number and numeral.

No és promo d'un pòdcast en què surto, és promo d'un pòdcast sobre llengües que està francament bé 😬
(Danny Bate, el fantàstic creador)

A més, en el meu capítol podeu sentir un anglès fascinat amb l'aprenentatge de català, que això sempre fa festa!

open.spotify.com/episode/6g1Ne8…

Limpsaa Jämpsästä! Epenteesi eli Thor, Donner ja 'thunder', tai pulveri vs puuteri.
Samoin murt. talt(e)rikki ’lautanen’, viron taldrik << alasaks. tallor-ken < muinaisransk. taill(e)or ‘leikkaaja, leikkuulauta’ (> engl. tailor ’räätäli’).
Jaa mitä? Lue!
dannybate.com/2024/04/17/hum…

Last year I was asked to give a talk at the NISIS Autumn School about the textual history of the Quran. Here's a thread summarizing the points of that presentation. Specifically the presentation addresses some of Shoemaker's new objections on the Uthmanic canonization.

academia has you beefing with someone 3k miles away who is also one of only 4 people on earth who likes the same stuff as you