Antwerp train station.

It’s intriguing that you never see singular ‘they’ in Old English, even for someone of unknown gender. People always wrote ‘he’. The first record of singular ‘they’ is from 1300: some 700 years after the first English writings, and 400 years after connected prose became common.

Is ‘word-concept fallacy’ something philosophers and logicians talk about, or just Bible scholars?

Strange Reddit character I once encountered, #237: Depressed 19 year old gay guy from Kansas who was into knitting and textiles and dyes, and constantly engaged in suicidal ideation about his facial structure and desperately wanted to reconstruct and revive Proto-Gallo-Romance

We should go back to calling doctors “leeches” and the hospital the “leech-house”

This image is a pretty good litmus test for whether you’re a 5th-century Saxon invading the British isles: do you regard this man with respect, or disgust?

Can anyone supply me with the Common Brittonic for “Howdy, neighbor”?

If you could instantly learn one language fluently with no effort, which would it be? (I’m including dead languages like Old English and Proto-Indo-European.)

This happens in Beowulf: UNFERTH: Didnt you lose a swimming contest, loser? You’ll never defeat Grendel. BEOWULF: I was swimming in a suit of armor, and slayed NINE SEA MONSTERS on the ocean floor. I haven’t heard such tales of you, except that you killed your brothers. Bitch.

Frodo and Sam’s platonic love does NOT prove they’re gay. Any straight guy who says he wouldn’t run his fingers through Frodo’s hair and tell him he’s beautiful is lying.

Poll for STRAIGHT MALES only. Would you gaze lovingly into Frodo's eyes and kiss him deeply and tell him everything's going to be okay?

“There’s no proof the Anglo-Saxons were violent to the Britons” Saxons: hey guys, would you please give us some of your land? Thanks xoxo Britons: Sure, besties! Make sure you enslave us and replace our entire language and culture

>The Old English for a raspberry was 𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘫𝘦 or ‘(female) deer berry’, from an ancient belief that deer loved raspberries >Look up if its still true >“If you want to keep deer from eating your raspberries, you can try dropping a nuke directly on top of them”

The best way to get people to unfollow me is to say something thoughtful and original, so I always wonder how openly original thinkers ever become big accounts