Ethiopian art is by far the closest you can get to “what if a medieval monk saw a tank”. I love it so much
Nissehatt
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Nissehatt
@hekwoys
Gnomic aspect. “Generally as self-reflected as any reflexive pronoun.” | Linguistics and philology | VDMA
Antediluvian Beringia
Joined June 2022
- It’s pretty funny that Latin America has produced like one world-class author and he thought English was better than Spanish
- Why do I even log onto this site manEnglish will be the common international language for the foreseeable future. It has almost no grammar that is really important. It's just a group of words cobbled together from around the world. It's easy to learn. Its only problem is that it's hard to spell because of all the
- “So there’s no vowel elision before words like εἴκοσι or ἄναξ?” “That’s right Joe. There’s a digamma there, beautiful letter, like a W, it stops that horrible elision, nasty business. Those awful Athenians, they can’t pronounce it, but Homer could, it affects the meter.”
- The Japanese language is so powerful that they have a special first person pronoun for pQtriQts
- Big anthropology doesn’t want you to know this but Proto-Bantu, spoken c. 3000-800 BC in central Africa, had a word for “white man”
- Bizarre American ethnic group of the day: some Cossack Old Believers settled in Romania then moved to Akşehir in Anatolia and finally emigrated to Woodburn, OR
- I’m not generally a fan of minimalism but something about Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen really blows me away
- Here are some pleasant New England towns that voted Republican in 2024. Now will you all please shut up about it
- Timely reminder that most of the people relegating WW2 right now essentially believe this
- Downloaded the Manichaean keyboard on my phone just to feel something
- Ridiculous that the two most prominent Semitic tribes take their names from the roots ʕ-b-r (Hebrews) and ʕ-r-b (Arabs). Real Luigi vs Waluigi type silliness
