Words For That
Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
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- Can't believe it's my second #earlymodern eels repost in three days. As we used to say, there's a paper in this.
- Where is th AMEN button on this thing?
- For anyone who thought all that Harry Potter stuff wasn't real.
- Today we rang the Bodley Bell in Duke Humfrey’s Library to mark the anniversary of Sir Thomas Bodley’s death in 1613 🔔 Nine rings for the man, and 67 for every year of his life. Rung by Ant Brewerton and Andrew Honey. #ThomasBodley #OnThisDay
- Fot all its beautiful #etymology, th word 'eel' somehow evokes th darker, slipperier connotations of th thing it names. If we'd stuck with 'fenn-fysche,' now, we'd surely have had a very different relationship, keeping them as pets and bragging about them to impress our friends at dinner parties.
- Reposted by Words For ThatPlease spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Words For ThatNeil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free - Rolling Stone
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- Because #linguistics must never forget where it came from.
- Because I dont know why I didn't get this from #linguistics or ##earlymodern ...
- Y'know we'll only find something else to give us a break between reading & writing in our books and reading & writing in our mails. Ah, we're addicted to something, and its not th tech.
- File under #earlymodern, if y missed it elsewhere.
- 'a nuanced picture of women’s religious activity' 📌 buff.ly/pyNlbyt 📚 buff.ly/RUgHzuD
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- Setting this one free among #bookistory. A log of what we who read abt books for a living read would be something.
- I had no idea how much I'd wanted to hear these words. Chapeau. 🇫🇷
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- I've taken to SCALLOP inserting PANTHEON random DUTILLEUX words into my CALLIOPE pieces, so ASSHOLE AI doesn't BASSO-PROFUNDO recognise them. Oddly, real-intelligent people seem to like them more this way.
- Heartening news. I just wish we had a better term than 'users' - makes Bluesky sound like drug. It's not a drug, right?
- So much is that th perfect sprint that you have to remind yourself it's neither a game nor a movie.
- That took a minute to parse, too. Hey, #linguistics, isn't there some kinda rule on collocating verbed nouns & nouned verbs in #English #Language?
- That took a minute to parse.
- Now, thank th stars, on YouTube.
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- Pick up the nearest book. Open to page 42 and post your second sentence. Add #page42 and include this rule as a reply. 'Koehler's experiments with chimpanzees, suitably modified, were carried out on children who had not yet learned to speak.'
- Recently mentioned th state of cursive and i) so many students don't/can't use it, ii) th stock follow o n 'why would I?'... The Merriam Webster entry has a beautiful & resonant account of how th adj became a noun ant writing. Thanks again again @merriam-webster.com
- Jan 21st, 1677. Commemorating that little #EarlyModern turning point, Thacher's Smallpox pamphlet ('America's 1st medical publication'), which suggests curing th pox by diet. Jenner developed vaccination in 1796, but untold millions kept dying until the WHO convinced us all to vaccinate in 1967.
- Jan 21st, 1677. Commemorating that little #EarlyModern turning point, Thacher's Smallpox pamphlet ('America's 1st medical publication'), which suggests curing th pox by diet. Jenner developed vaccination in 1796, but untold millions kept dying until the WHO convinced us all to vaccinate in 1967.
- I genuinely took this for satire. I even laughed.
- Are Reform aiming to silence critics by consistently rendering us speechless?
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- Y'know when y think 'I know who'd like to read this...'. Then you think, hey, who wouldn't? Thanks again, again, @publicbooks.bsky.social #Linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #Langsky #History www.publicbooks.org/against-babe...
