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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 56m

very good

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 2h

the only adjective ending she is fairly good about is -es as in ein [adjective]es [noun]. (adj endings are v hard in german.) and i bring this up bc she just said "das ist ein silly-es Lied" wh i thought was clever of her

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

Almost 9 months ago, our press colleague Anas Al-Sharif removed his press vest following the announcement of a ceasefire.

And then we saw what happened next. May we ensure the bombs actually end this time.

I wish he, and so many more, were here with us.

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Dr. Valerie @drvalerieisin.bsky.social · 1d

There’s still time to sign up for our Farsi + Akkadian reading groups!

I wouldn’t want you to miss out - they promise to be lots of fun!

Dr. Valerie @drvalerieisin.bsky.social · 15d

New this term: reading groups!

We’ll meet for 1 hour a week for 8 weeks on Zoom and read through a grammar of a new language together.

This term we’re doing Farsi + Akkadian.

It’ll be free to join for those taking a course and only cost $25 otherwise.

Sign up here:

forms.gle/VD3W3x9ut4SE...

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 10h

holy shit

Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 18h

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Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teot...

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 11h

the online grammar i have found most useful is this one: www.dastur.info/persian-gram... lots of subtle descriptions in there that are for some reason hard to find elsewhere. though it'd be difficult to learn the language using this alone

Persian Grammar - دستورِ زبانِ پارسی

„And what about the Persian language? Being so gentle and delicate, that all those meanings and subtleties, having come down to us in Persian, cannot be expressed in Arabian!” Shams Tabrizi Author: Dr...

www.dastur.info

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 12h

that said i do happen to be in possession of some potentially useful pdves (with audio) for someone starting out in Persian and would be happy to open up the hoard to an interested party

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 12h

people might be able to find language exchange conversation partners on sites like hellotalk or italki, though the instruction would ofc not be very rigorous. (tho italki has a great selection of paid teachers/tutors)

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 12h

hm, for totally free i'm not sure, but this seems like a good course and has free components (or at least a trial): www.chaiandconversation.com i have always wanted to do it.

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Learn conversational Persian (Farsi) online with free, high-quality audio and video lessons from Chai and Conversation.

www.chaiandconversation.com

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 12h

@mattboot.bsky.social hi! where could one get (preferably) free online resources to learn Farsi? (Actually) asking for a friend

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 12h

probably doesn't help that i took the survey like 20 times

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 12h

that NYT dialect survey that went around some years back taught me a couple words that i have since started using (roly poly, rotary, feeder road, brew thru)

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13h

in all the correct places. one time recently she said das Mause in the singular (for die Maus), i think pulling the -e from the plural that she knew better.

but the other day she even said Fledermäuse (bats) which i'm pretty sure she'd only ever heard as singular before. so that was pretty great

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13h

probably the thing that blows my mind the most is when she does broken plurals (or umlauted plurals or whatever we call them in German), especially when i haven't just primed her to say it, maybe bc i always imagined these were hard to learn.

she is saying Mäuse (mice) and Bücher (books)..

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13h

phonology: she has learned [x], she doesn't say e.g. machen [maʃɛn] anymore. tbh i didn't notice when this happened.

front rounded vowels (ü, ö) are clearly their own thing to her even if she is not nailing the precise articulation yet

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 14h

she hasn't learned the accusative dative difference yet. much like Middle English, she is generalizing the dative pronouns mir and dir into accusative environments (e.g. kannst du mir suchen "can you come look for me")

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 14h

some notes on toddler (3yo + couple months) German so far:

everything is "das" right now; she doesn't really do gender differences of any kind yet. i'll say "danke für die hilfe" and she will say it right back to me as "danke für das hilfe". even in English everybody is he/him/his to her.

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Simon Pulleyn @simonpulleyn.bsky.social · 14h

Historical Linguists: Any recommendations for indexing software that can handle (1) PDF proofs and (2) languages other than English, specifically lots and lots of Ancient Greek?

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

i thought Fall of the House of Usher was pretty entertaining (though i will watch any mike flanagan show)

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that our first seminar of the season takes place tomorrow and is hybrid. Annick Payne will be giving us an Anatolian Hieroglyphic Masterclass!

Zoom registration and more information via this link:

viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/v...

VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025

We are excited to announce our autumn termcard of hybrid seminars, with three events coming up. The topics include Anatolian Hieroglyphs, Linear A and B, Greek alphabetic education and European and…

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

oops i forgot to transliterate the word in the original tweet. well it's అనేది anēdi

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 1d

morphologically it is

an- (root of verb meaning to say, call)

-ē (future/habitual vbl adj)

(cf. Alī an-ē kurrāḍu "a young man named Ali")

=di (fem/neut substantivizer)

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