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The correct professional way is: “For fuck‘s sake (hereinafter: ffs)”

「食」の🍙の部分

Living the Good Life Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century BRill 2017 Introduction on editor's Academia academia.edu/39760210/_Intr… Ch.1 academia.edu/39760215/_Sett… Conclusion academia.edu/39760219/_Conc… Consumption as Knowledge academia.edu/40396288/_Cons…

This bamboo slip 遷陵以郵行洞庭 is part of 里耶秦簡, a large collection of official files from Qin dynasty 秦朝 According to 游逸飛 (2015), this slip should be read as: “from Donting 洞庭 to Qiangling 遷陵 by mail 以郵行” The destination is written first!

Amusingly, the word zhuxi 主席, which mostly means 'chairman, president' in contemporary Mandarin, has an older meaning of 'abbot' :D (besides, of course, the more obvious meanings of 'the seat of the host,' 'to host a banquet,' 'host of a banquet' etc)

Voio Egas Moniz-Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ In my view, the Khotanese yirrūṃcinä comes from Old Turkic yürüng-čïn (which surely entered to Mongolian as yürüng-čin) academia.edu/6007636/Dai_MA… Academia

Fascinating! ‘Yes’ apparently started off as the equivalent of German ‘doch’ or French ‘si’ before becoming a general affirmation like ‘yeah’ 😁

There's an extinct glyph depicting a tattooing tool, created for the word {笮} "tattooing of the face (as punishment)". How do we know it? I will describe everything in the following thread. First, it's used in its basic pictographic form on Shang bronzes, as a clan sign. /1

- Ministers talking about forced evacuations ✅ - Ministers dehumanising Arabs who “are not really sovereign” ✅ - Plans to set up kill zones ✅ - CGI animation used to justify said kill zones ✅ - Mass death of civilians 🔲 - Starvation 🔲 - Torture camps 🔲 - ICJ case 🔲

The last time Netanyahu said Israel was at war with a terrorist group and not civilians, Israel began killing tens of thousands of civilians.