Upgraded version of the Jataka Stories Database version2.jatakastories.div.ed.ac.uk

A great resource to learn Syriac paleography: hmmlschool.org/syriac/

'Taiwan Plains Austronesian Latin scriptsand documents from the 17th to the 19thcentury: A bibliographical survey' by Chung-pui Tai Keywords: #Siraya, #Favorlang, #Basay, #Sinkanmanuscripts, #TaiwanPlainsAustronesians Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

I can’t help but giggle at how funny Middle Low German looks like next to Middle High German. I mean, sure it’s two dialects of a language continuity but don’t tell me you don’t find “De man is ok” funny!

Very sad to hear. The first linguist that informed the wider world about the existence of minority Tai scripts in parts of Vietnam and Laos, and still has provided some of the only existing documentation of these.

You can also do such historical diagrams on a broader, even global level! Here's a 1926 Japanese representation of world history ("Table of the rise and fall of the countries of the world" 世界各國興亡表). Such visualizations also tell a lot about how history is constructed...

Amazing calligraphy writing the Jiemo jing 羯磨經, in the collection of the Nakamura Fusetsu Museum of Calligraphy.

I think there's maybe really something here, look at this. I got GPT to respond to the prompt from this uml.edu/docs/sample-es…. Then I got a sequence of embeddings for each word in both the human- and GPT- authored essays. You can see how the human one moves around more.

I've posted this already, but I'll post it again because it is so nice: 知之之之之道也, Classical Chinese for "knowledge is power" (= know it 知之, getting there 之之, is the path to 之道) 🤣 [Inspired by Gvd Gabelentz' Chinese Grammar, still a good read after 140+ years!]

Reminder that one can show that 'election' results in Russia are manipulated based on statistical anomalies in the official data github.com/dkobak/electio…

At least two frequent Mandarin words have had their pronunciation changed to avoid sounding like 'f*ck': 1. 入 ('to enter') should be rì, but became rù; rì as f*ck is now written 日 (㒲) 2. 鳥 ('bird'), should be diǎo, but > niǎo (diǎo: male genital, Canto 'f*ck')

Pages from a 14th-century Turkish-Arabic dictionary from Mamluk Egypt, arranged into diamonds with Arabic words on the right and their (Kipchak) Turkish equivalents on the left.

نوروز پیروز و سال نو خجسته باد

'The history and current situation of theHmong writing system' by Yijun Long and Haitao Liu Keywords: #Hmongwritingsystem #languageplanning #writingformsandstructures Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

Some items of Assam-Tibet trade in the more recent era include: Tibet - rock salt, woollens, gold dust, cowries, Chinese silk etc. Assam - rice, silk clothes, iron, lac, buffalo horns, pearls, corals etc. The famous 16th century Brindabani bastra of Assam for example, was /

Incredible work by the Wells Fargo analyst who ordered the same burrito bowl 75 times at eight different Chipotles in NYC to prove the portion size inconsistency 🤣

Spoke to Hon. D.G. National Museum over phone and pleaded lowering the outrageous charge of 1000 Rs/folio for National Museum Manuscript Scans. On being encouraged to make official communication. I wrote the following email Thanks Hon. D.G NM to give me your kind audience.

William Han i think it might also be partially a cantonese transcription from her time running for office in SF — 錦麗 is gam lai

There are creative ads, and then there are Thai ads

no i won't stop posting random Han cursive forms