You may also find it useful to add filter=0 (no removal of similar results) and/or pws=0 (no attempt to personalize results).

Happily you can still force Google to treat you like an adult. How you make this the default will vary by browser, but the basic point is that the search URL should include the parameters udm=14 (no “AI”), nfpr=1 (no autocorrect) and/or tbs=li:1 (no variant forms): www.dedoimedo.com/computers/go...

The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.

Never mind the balls, it’s the brains I’m worried about!

A subtweet?

Hope it went better than the subheadings suggest!

The kind of interview only a passer can pass?

PS. Stotz has something about this (likewise with caveats) in vol. 4 pp. 260f. §18.3 and §18.5 (Nominale Kategorien: Zur Kasuslehre: Ablativ: Der Ablativ anstelle anderer Kasus).

Which isn’t to say it couldn’t have been authorial – just that the phenomenon was probably not as extensive as the TLL section might make it look (which wasn’t that much in the first place, given the length of the entry as a whole) and that it wouldn’t be outrageous to dismiss it as a lapsus calami.

I see that they describe these at the start of the section as “exempla minus certa, sc. suspecta propter m mobile” (the idea presumably being that an abbreviated ‘-m’ might have been accidentally omitted). The “exempla certiora” are also often explicable on other grounds or contradicted by vv. ll.

I bet Dr Gerard Cheshire can!

This is about handwriting rather than script, but it always bears repeating: Vat. lat. 9850 f. 3v has a note asking for someone who can read Aquinas’s scrawl: “procuretur si posset inveniri aliquis qui sciret legere istam litteram, quia est de littera fratris Thome”: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat...

Explanation of ‘Chortlemuffin’ for anyone who needs it: bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Richard’s brother? (I was very fond of his Busy, Busy World.)

I’m no expert, but I do spend a lot of time in the kiddy section of bookshops in England and the children’s classics subsection will usually have either Over Sea, Under Stone or The Dark is Rising. Very occasionally Greenwitch, practically never beyond. Seems there’s still a market but it’s limited.