kobayashi ḫamṭu
language enjoyer, he/him
- i heard both of these today: "what are we solutioning here" "we don't have a solve for that" nouns and verbs, two ships passing in the night
- Telugu morphology is great because you can just take the ending from deictics like a-ppuḍu "then" (that-time) i-ppuḍu "now" (this-time) e-ppuḍu "when?" (what-time) and throw that thing on a verb to make a subordinate clause: nēnu iṇṭ-lō unna-ppuḍu.. "when I was home.." (1S home-LOC be-time..) 🤯
- literally what's not to love about this language
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuI have shot the man who was in Reno and whom you were probably hoping would live Forgive me I just wanted to watch him die
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuDispersal of the Tupí-speaking Tupinambá and Guaraní peoples across eastern South America, from 80 BC to AD 1700. The Tupí linguistic group is one of the most widespread in South America. For the first time, #archaeology helps trace its expansion 🏺 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuHere's a cool math fact: If we can go up a set of stairs at one or two steps at a time, the number of different ways we can go up those stairs will always be a Fibonacci number! Here's why:
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuthey're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Latin sentence of the day: Reliquit enim te, quam non relicturam nemo umquam poterit esse securus. "For she [Fortune] has abandoned you, she who nobody can ever be sure is not going to abandon them." (Boethius, Cons. of Phil., II.P1)
- (we read on to learn that Fortune hasn't really abandoned him, she is only treating him how she has technically always treated him: inconsistently.)
- Qui cecidit, stabili non erat ille gradu!
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuRead Nabataean!
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuIf you weren't following events in Gaza in 2023/early 2024, know that when the first photos of atrocities appeared, people lined up to shout that they were fake or staged. Now we know that not only were they real, the US actively worked to suppress the truth of the reports.
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuElizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
- omg this is incredible
- Announcing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuFucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
- The Good Place was a documentary
- just scheduled an italki lesson for telugu (it's been, like, 8 months)
- a nuclear waarheid, if you will
- i looked up the etymology of Coptic ⲣⲁⲥⲧⲉ "tomorrow" (as in ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ϥⲓⲣⲟⲟⲩϣ ⲉⲡⲉϥⲣⲁⲥⲧⲉ "don't worry about tomorrow"), expecting something normal, and discovered that it is originally the phrase "wake up, you!", the beginning of the morning prayer to the rising sun??
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuI had a colleague whose grant was cancelled because it had the phrase "linguistic diversity" in the title, so Palantir is dumb as a rock in addition to being evil
- SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology" The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders: www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuA big lexical project for Old Uyghur
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuTwo HRW employees that make up the entirety of the organization's Israel and Palestine program are stepping down after the leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a "crime against humanity." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuHow much you love your kid? That’s how much the mother in detention loves hers. How much the mother in Palestine loves hers. Just because you can’t imagine the unimaginable- their separation; death- doesn’t mean so many in the world are not enduring it.
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuThe Michael Jackson biopic is an awful idea but at least Gary, IN gets representation as the Midwest's Mordor.
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuAmericans have been so poisoned by TV copaganda slop that it largely doesn't register to them that police officers are not supposed to point guns at people guns are in principle not a tool of law enforcement, they are a tool of self-defense that we allow law enforcement officers to have
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- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuToday, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭu"By condemning these comparisons, the USHMM is not safeguarding Holocaust memory - it is policing historical memory so that it applies only to certain groups, stripping it of its power as a universal warning against dehumanization and state violence." www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuTeaching eco-criticism my intro to the bible course today. Excited to talk about one of my all time favorite things: Eduardo Kac's trans-genic installation, "Genesis" (c. 1999-2001). Gen. 1:26-28 translated as genetic code and bacteria writing back! | www.ekac.org/genesis.html
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuܠܘ ܥܝ̈ܢܘܗ̄ܝ ܐܠܐ ܐܬܪ̈ܘܬܐ ܗ̇ܢܘܢ ܕܐܝܬܝܗܝܢ ܗ̄ܘܝ ܥܝܢ̈ܘܗ̄ܝ ܒܗܘܢ܉ ܗ̣ܢܘܢ ܐܬܚ̣ܙܘ /law ʕaynaw, ʔellå ʔaṯrawwåṯå hånon d-ʔiṯay-hēn-way ʕaynaw b-hon, hennon ʔeṯḥzaw/
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuUnique opportunity to study Classical Persian, Urdu, and Chaghatay in Yerevan ferdowsi.org/ferdowsi-sum...
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭupicked up cross-stitch again as a break from everything, i started this 5 years ago and maybe one day it will be finished
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- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuHow do probabilists pronounce P̃? A student is trying to convince me they say "Pee-yay", like the Spanish letter ñ (eñe), and they are absolutely pulling my leg, right?
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuThis is why the "Odysseus actually traveled the Baltic" theory remains delightful
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuPlease help my friend leave Texas
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭu"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while" "A broken clock is right twice a day " Are there others/ others in other languages?
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuLook at the photos. The thing I heard often working on the USAID Gaza response from our partners in Gaza was the field of dead bodies - men, women, children - that fanned out around IDF checkpoints in the Netzarim corridor. Shot by IDF soldiers for no reason (unless "for fun" counts as a reason).
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuThe photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuMeeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuAccording to Google Translate, the modern Greek word for groundhog is μαρμότα (marmota), therefore a Greek-derived technical term for groundhog-divination would be marmotomancy (μαρμοτομαντεία). Marmotomancy Phil.
- yesterday the toddler was watching Peter Pan with some Spanish-speaking relatives. this morning: "can we watch the rest of Peter Bread?"
- this sounds made up or cherry picked but no it was actually as simple as this. and they were even watching in english so idk
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuas always
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuThe fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.
- ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuLiam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs “This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me
- Reposted by kobayashi ḫamṭuME: whenever i make fried eggs the yolks break but when i make scrambled eggs they don’t ALANIS MORISSETTE: i’m sorry but the lyrics are already done
- TIL Persian تيار tayyār "ready", which was loaned into a bunch of Central & South Asian languages, is apparently itself from Arabic طيار ṭayyār "flying, capable of flight"; cf. how we say "full-fledged" in English to mean "ready/complete"
- (also cf. colloq. Arabic طيارة ṭayyāra "airplane")
- anyway this was surprising to me because doesn't Persian typically preserve Arabic spellings? why ت for ط
- here they're making an important distinction between code-switching and loanwords ... but i just want to draw attention to paarattukku "farm"-DAT which to me really doesn't look like an Eng loanword but is!!
