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matt 🍉 ElIa Wind Everything is just a late dialect of Proto-Indo-Yahgan-Dene-Algi-Siouan-Tuu-Kx’a-Niger-Nilo-Afro-Tamil-Uralo-Sibero-Sumerian. Or Proto-Austro-Hima-Sentinelese-Trans-New Guinea-Sepik-Goroka-Wagiman-Nyunganesian Those are the two language families.

Personally, I’m not sure if this is the myth I’d choose to decorate my airport

"what are their prefixes?" "s-/tʃk-"

Our May/June seminars (Wednesdays 16.30 BST from 14th May) include Sumerian, Latin, Oracle Bone Script, Khipus, Nahua writing and Unicode for minority scripts... and you can watch online! Here is the programme, link in next comment.

as global temperatures rise, tucson AZ should become a “night city” where the hours for everything are reversed, saving energy and increasing tourism. there could be a “night mayor” who rules the shadows in his cape and does battle with his enemy—and identical twin—the day mayor

"...and who was the author of Jane Eyre?" "Emily Brontë?" "Turn the engine off and step out of the truck for me, sir."

Might be worth a look if you’re unaccustomed to prevocalic ɱ (e.g., Païta-Drubea [ɱãã] ‘part of palm’; Tenyidie [ɱə̂] ‘refuse’; South Teke [ɱíì] ‘eyes’) or to “crazy rules” like this:

“Robots can be your friends, maybe even better than human friends,” says giant loser

Happy May Day! I translated parts of a speech by Socialist presidential candidate (and Hoosier!) Eugene V. Debs into Latin. This was a valuable project for really digging into Debs’ language. I was also struck at how flawlessly ciceronian much of what he said was! 🔗 ⬇️

Oscan word of the day: Múíníkúm ("held in common, communal", here in the neuter nominative singular). Since this book, on Oscan (and Umbrian), is in fact held in common, in the sense of being owned by the Institute library.

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. HBO ok its a show called "chicago pope" where this guy named rob is from chicago but he's also the pope. he gets into all sorts of mischief around town and of course eats a lot of various meats and sausages and stuff. I want 50 million dollars

Since the new pope is a native English speaker, "habemus papam" must now be pronounced /hǝbiːmǝs peɪpǝm/ to properly honor our diachronic heritage. We had a whole vowel shift for this, and a great one it was too.