Dr. Word Person
@drwordperson.bsky.social
Linguist with an interest in various dead languages (Ancient Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin...) Ph.D. UCLA, Indo-European Studies; currently an MS student at Uni Stuttgart. Native of Texas.
I enjoy lutes, languages, plants, recorders, and rocks.
I enjoy lutes, languages, plants, recorders, and rocks.
@mishellbaker.bsky.social Would you be interested in seeing some baffling "American" food I found in Germany? Idk if your current symptoms make the very idea of food something terrible but if so I don't want to make anything worse!
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
@mishellbaker.bsky.social Would you be interested in seeing some baffling "American" food I found in Germany? Idk if your current symptoms make the very idea of food something terrible but if so I don't want to make anything worse!
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I have a book launch today, and because I like making lists of books and talking about other people's books, here are some OTHER book launches now and coming up!
Threading~
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Threading~
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November 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I have a book launch today, and because I like making lists of books and talking about other people's books, here are some OTHER book launches now and coming up!
Threading~
📚😍📚
Threading~
📚😍📚
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Bumping my database of intersex ownvoices books + a bonus list of ALL books by Black intersex authors, for #IntersexAWarenessWeek!
#IntersexAwarenessDay was on Shabbat... so this is me belatedly letting you know about some of my intersex book resources!
Intersex books BY intersex authors:
www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-own...
All the books (any topic) by Black intersex authors:
www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-bo...
Intersex books BY intersex authors:
www.bogireadstheworld.com/intersex-own...
All the books (any topic) by Black intersex authors:
www.bogireadstheworld.com/a-list-of-bo...
Suddenly a database! All the intersex #ownvoices books | Bogi Reads the World
www.bogireadstheworld.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Bumping my database of intersex ownvoices books + a bonus list of ALL books by Black intersex authors, for #IntersexAWarenessWeek!
I spent the summer on the outskirts of a town with 30,000 people and good (but not excellent) bike infrastructure, and getting around by bike was absolutely the best transportation experience of my life.
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I spent the summer on the outskirts of a town with 30,000 people and good (but not excellent) bike infrastructure, and getting around by bike was absolutely the best transportation experience of my life.
I am currently eating a German bakery item that seems to be a banana wrapped in marshmallow cream (?) laid out on a cookie and dipped in chocolate. I have to give this one an A+. Why has no one else thought of this?
October 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I am currently eating a German bakery item that seems to be a banana wrapped in marshmallow cream (?) laid out on a cookie and dipped in chocolate. I have to give this one an A+. Why has no one else thought of this?
@oakleaf.bsky.social Random German field at sunset!
September 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
@oakleaf.bsky.social Random German field at sunset!
@captainawkward.bsky.social I don't think you know about @iambic.bot yet, but you need to.
September 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
@captainawkward.bsky.social I don't think you know about @iambic.bot yet, but you need to.
Fantastic example of the effects of language contact on today's Tagesschau (German news). The newscaster reads so many American words with American r's (President Trump, Arizona) that immediately afterwards they pronounce a German word with an American r (gereist).
Start at the ten second mark.
Start at the ten second mark.
tagesschau in 100 Sekunden
Rund um die Uhr kompakt und aktuell informiert mit dem tagesschau-Nachrichtenüberblick in 100 Sekunden.
www.tagesschau.de
September 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Fantastic example of the effects of language contact on today's Tagesschau (German news). The newscaster reads so many American words with American r's (President Trump, Arizona) that immediately afterwards they pronounce a German word with an American r (gereist).
Start at the ten second mark.
Start at the ten second mark.
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Finally watching The Last Kingdom and have encountered one of my historical/fantasy writing pet peeves, which is having just one or two 'old-timey' ways to say something like 'money' and then using them over and over again almost like proper nouns.
In tLK, 'silver' and 'wealth;' like 'coin' Skyrim.
In tLK, 'silver' and 'wealth;' like 'coin' Skyrim.
September 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Finally watching The Last Kingdom and have encountered one of my historical/fantasy writing pet peeves, which is having just one or two 'old-timey' ways to say something like 'money' and then using them over and over again almost like proper nouns.
In tLK, 'silver' and 'wealth;' like 'coin' Skyrim.
In tLK, 'silver' and 'wealth;' like 'coin' Skyrim.
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Oops. They let me make a trailer again. Go buy borderlands 4! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_a...
Claptrap Needs Friends | Borderlands 4
YouTube video by Borderlands
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September 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oops. They let me make a trailer again. Go buy borderlands 4! www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3_a...
Mushroom gathering season is here!!!!
(These are Pfifferlinge!)
(These are Pfifferlinge!)
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Mushroom gathering season is here!!!!
(These are Pfifferlinge!)
(These are Pfifferlinge!)
@andreagrimes.com Central Market is having a yodeling blitz tonight????????? www.austinchronicle.com/events/music... Apparently they're having a German food festival right now and this is one of the events. Can you go and report back?
Yodel Blitz
www.austinchronicle.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@andreagrimes.com Central Market is having a yodeling blitz tonight????????? www.austinchronicle.com/events/music... Apparently they're having a German food festival right now and this is one of the events. Can you go and report back?
Apparently in German "du kleine Lese-Ratte" (you little reading-rat) is the way you call someone a bookworm (which is, in itself, a very weird expression)!
What's the equivalent expression for a reading animal in your language?
What's the equivalent expression for a reading animal in your language?
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Apparently in German "du kleine Lese-Ratte" (you little reading-rat) is the way you call someone a bookworm (which is, in itself, a very weird expression)!
What's the equivalent expression for a reading animal in your language?
What's the equivalent expression for a reading animal in your language?
Mikey is this *THE* King Pretzel????? Have we found his domain??
(Spotted in Freinsheim, Germany)
(Spotted in Freinsheim, Germany)
August 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Mikey is this *THE* King Pretzel????? Have we found his domain??
(Spotted in Freinsheim, Germany)
(Spotted in Freinsheim, Germany)
@oakleaf.bsky.social @captainawkward.bsky.social You have to watch this video-- but turn the subtitles on.
Pöpcørn | Recipes with The Swedish Chef | The Muppets
YouTube video by The Muppets
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August 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
@oakleaf.bsky.social @captainawkward.bsky.social You have to watch this video-- but turn the subtitles on.
It is blackberry season!!! And please send me your best recipes because I need your help, y'all. I am gathering approximately twice this many blackberries from the woods per day. What do I do with them all??? The jam jars are full, omg.
July 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It is blackberry season!!! And please send me your best recipes because I need your help, y'all. I am gathering approximately twice this many blackberries from the woods per day. What do I do with them all??? The jam jars are full, omg.
Real earthshaking development here.
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Real earthshaking development here.
Does anyone know how to check in advance whether a bike frame will fit you? I'm looking for a used bike and it would be nice to know before I go all the way out to look...
July 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Does anyone know how to check in advance whether a bike frame will fit you? I'm looking for a used bike and it would be nice to know before I go all the way out to look...
I moved to Germany with very little in the way of physical belongings, and reconstructing furniture and housewares has been...actually not that much of a challenge! What did I do? Where does someone like me get more stuff????
Well, picking it up from the side of the road, usually.
Well, picking it up from the side of the road, usually.
June 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I moved to Germany with very little in the way of physical belongings, and reconstructing furniture and housewares has been...actually not that much of a challenge! What did I do? Where does someone like me get more stuff????
Well, picking it up from the side of the road, usually.
Well, picking it up from the side of the road, usually.
I have happy news, everyone! (Now that my life has settled down a bit.) I have been accepted to (and joined) the Computational Linguistics Master's program at the University of Stuttgart!
Oh dear, you already *have* a Ph.D., you say. Why are you *doing* this to yourself, you say.
Well...
Oh dear, you already *have* a Ph.D., you say. Why are you *doing* this to yourself, you say.
Well...
June 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I have happy news, everyone! (Now that my life has settled down a bit.) I have been accepted to (and joined) the Computational Linguistics Master's program at the University of Stuttgart!
Oh dear, you already *have* a Ph.D., you say. Why are you *doing* this to yourself, you say.
Well...
Oh dear, you already *have* a Ph.D., you say. Why are you *doing* this to yourself, you say.
Well...
@oakleaf.bsky.social Have a very impressive school building! From Emmendingen, Germany.
May 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
@oakleaf.bsky.social Have a very impressive school building! From Emmendingen, Germany.
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🚨 Northern Cities Vowel Shift Pope Confirmed 🚨
May 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨 Northern Cities Vowel Shift Pope Confirmed 🚨
Tonight somebody told me that whenever they look at the Big Dipper, they see a shopping cart, and now that's it, that's the end, the whole constellation is ruined for me, it's just The Shopping Cart now and I can't see it and think of anything but the vastness of endless parking lots.
May 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Tonight somebody told me that whenever they look at the Big Dipper, they see a shopping cart, and now that's it, that's the end, the whole constellation is ruined for me, it's just The Shopping Cart now and I can't see it and think of anything but the vastness of endless parking lots.
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Many therapod dinosaurs were unable to pronate their hands. This means that the hands would have faced each other, not the ground.
What did they use they hands for, particularly if they had giant heads and short arms?
New proposal: cats cradle.
What did they use they hands for, particularly if they had giant heads and short arms?
New proposal: cats cradle.
May 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Many therapod dinosaurs were unable to pronate their hands. This means that the hands would have faced each other, not the ground.
What did they use they hands for, particularly if they had giant heads and short arms?
New proposal: cats cradle.
What did they use they hands for, particularly if they had giant heads and short arms?
New proposal: cats cradle.
@oakleaf.bsky.social I saw this utterly amazing selection of tulips today and thought of you!
April 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@oakleaf.bsky.social I saw this utterly amazing selection of tulips today and thought of you!