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I consider myself a πολυΐστωρ. That is Latin for someone who can be wrong about almost any subject. I remove many of my posts after one week. They usually have no lasting value. Either. http://amazon.com/author/magnuslewan

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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · 2d

Finalement !

Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 3d

What it would look like if Finnish followed French orthography.
As someone who probably still goes as Mrs. Yanne in some French records, this somehow breaks my brain :D.

(BTW still bigly mad that literary Finnish wasn't codified based on Savo dialect. It would've been gloriously silly.)

What it would look like if Finnish followed French orthography.
A map of Finland, showing the provinces and their capital cities, written in French orthography. For example, Lappi is La Pyil and Rovaniemi Rauvanne-Nyllémy; Helsinki is Elsinequi and Uusimaa is Ousimaex.

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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · 2d

Hobbit Tyrannosaurus?

Nature @nature.com · 3d

Decades of debate over the identity of a medium-sized Cretaceous predator may finally be over

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · 3d

Ja, det är säkert kummin du tänker på. Det finns också ost med kryddpeppar, men det är inte lika gott som kummin eller en riktigt vällagrad Danbo, Havarti, Gamle Ole, Sorte Sara eller Maroilles, till exempel.

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · 3d

Uppenbarligen skrivet av någon som inte rest i Sovjet på 1980-talet.

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · Aug 18

En bokstavs skillnad.

Hagtorn och havtorn.

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 24

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And so on…

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 24

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That never was ther no word hem bitwene
Of Ielousye, or any other tene.
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 23

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And God, that al this wyde world hath wroght,
Sende him his love, that hath it dere a-boght.
For now is Palamon in alle wele,
Living in blisse, in richesse, and in hele;
And Emelye him loveth so tendrely,
And he hir serveth al-so gentilly,
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 23

竜, ryū, dragon.
Image: Ceiling decoration by Hokusai 北斎 in a Festival Float kept in the Hokusai Museum in Obuse in the Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
#WOTD

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 22

I had not noticed that the middle telescope had two "eyes", which implies that the two side telescopes are "arms". I guess there is much more to discover in the drawing.

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 22

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'I trowe ther nedeth litel sermoning
To make yow assente to this thing.
Com neer, and tak your lady by the hond.'
Bitwixen hem was maad anon the bond,
That highte matrimoine or mariage,
By al the counseil and the baronage.
And thus with alle blisse and melodye
Hath Palamon y-wedded Emelye.
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 22

More star gazing.

This time an illustration by Tove Jansson from her book Kometen kommer.

Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 21

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And, though he were a povre bacheler,
Sin he hath served yow so many a yeer,
And had for yow so greet adversitee,
It moste been considered, leveth me;
For gentil mercy oghte to passen right.'
Than seyde he thus to Palamon ful right;
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 20

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And ever hath doon, sin that ye first him knewe,
That ye shul, of your grace, up-on him rewe,
And taken him for housbonde and for lord:
Leen me your hond, for this is our acord.
Lat see now of your wommanly pitee.
He is a kinges brother sone, pardee;
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 19

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And loketh now, wher most sorwe is her-inne,
Ther wol we first amenden and biginne.
'Suster,' quod he, 'this is my fulle assent,
With al thavys heer of my parlement,
That gentil Palamon, your owne knight,
That serveth yow with wille, herte, and might,
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 18

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'What may I conclude of this longe serie,
But, after wo, I rede us to be merie,
And thanken Iupiter of al his grace?
And, er that we departen from this place,
I rede that we make, of sorwes two,
O parfyt Ioye, lasting ever-mo;
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 17

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Out of this foule prison of this lyf?
Why grucchen heer his cosin and his wyf
Of his wel-fare that loved hem so weel?
Can he hem thank? nay, God wot, never a deel,
That bothe his soule and eek hem-self offende,
And yet they mowe hir lustes nat amende.
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 16

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For al forgeten is his vasselage.
Than is it best, as for a worthy fame,
To dyen whan that he is best of name.
The contrarie of al this is wilfulnesse.
Why grucchen we? why have we hevinesse,
That good Arcite, of chivalrye flour
Departed is, with duetee and honour,
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 15

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And certeinly a man hath most honour
To dyen in his excellence and flour,
Whan he is siker of his gode name;
Than hath he doon his freend, ne him, no shame.
And gladder oghte his freend ben of his deeth,
Whan with honour up-yolden is his breeth,
Than whan his name apalled is for age;
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 14

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'Thanne is it wisdom, as it thinketh me,
To maken vertu of necessitee,
And take it wel, that we may nat eschue,
And namely that to us alle is due.
And who-so gruccheth ought, he dooth folye,
And rebel is to him that al may gye.
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 13

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The which is prince and cause of alle thing,
Converting al un-to his propre welle,
From which it is deryved, sooth to telle.
And here-agayns no creature on lyve
Of no degree availleth for to stryve.
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 12

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Som in his bed, som in the depe see,
Som in the large feeld, as men may se;
Ther helpeth noght, al goth that ilke weye.
Thanne may I seyn that al this thing moot deye.
What maketh this but Iupiter the king?
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 11

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The brode river somtyme wexeth dreye.
The grete tounes see we wane and wende.
Than may ye see that al this thing hath ende.
'Of man and womman seen we wel also,
That nedeth, in oon of thise termes two,
This is to seyn, in youthe or elles age,
He moot ben deed, the king as shal a page;
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 10

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'Lo the ook, that hath so long a norisshinge
From tyme that it first biginneth springe,
And hath so long a lyf, as we may see,
Yet at the laste wasted is the tree.
'Considereth eek, how that the harde stoon
Under our feet, on which we trede and goon,
Yit wasteth it, as it lyth by the weye.
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Magnus @nmagnus.bsky.social · May 9

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And therfore, of his wyse purveyaunce,
He hath so wel biset his ordinaunce,
That speces of thinges and progressiouns
Shullen enduren by successiouns,
And nat eterne be, with-oute lye:
This maistow understonde and seen at yë.
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