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I post mostly about Linguistics and Tolkien | PhDing at @VUamsterdam about historical linguistics & North Halmahera langs | SilmariaPodcast | {female markers}
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Published: April 25, 2026 07:32
Based on daily observations in the past 4 year, I have established this 100% accurate ranking of news in the NOS wekdienst (Dutch public broadcasting morning news) 1. Verstappen still exists 2. Some legal trial 3. National and international news that I…
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Published: April 19, 2026 11:56
The thing I'll miss most after leaving Amsterdam? Paying 18€ to sit on a 129€ seat in the Concertgebouw 😌
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Published: March 9, 2026 19:23
I was today years old when I learned that Malay {surat} 'letter' is NOT a loan of Arabic سورة (sūra) 'chapter in the Qur'an' (etymology unclear but appears to be native) acd.clld.org/formsets/30029 https://acd.clld.org/formsets/30029
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Published: March 6, 2026 11:19
Today's featured article on the English-speaking @wikipedia.org is @ursulakleguin.com's "Paradises Lost", one of my favorite sci-fi novellas ❤️ go read both! 👐 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradises_Lost?wprov=sfla1
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Published: February 24, 2026 13:27
without looking it up, from what year do you think is the earliest attestation of "vibe" (as in "good vibes') as per the OED? https://media.tenor.com/1CcXIDK6YboAAAAC/the-simpsons-bart.gif?hh=373&ww=498
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Published: February 22, 2026 11:08
Der CfP für die Vielfaltslinguistik in Kiel (5.-6. Juni) wurde bis zum 28. verlängert. Ich kann leider dieses Jahr nicht dabei sein 😞 Die Vielfaltslinguistik ist eine der cutesten Linguistikkonferenzen, wenn ihr gutes Feedback und Socializing wollt …
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Published: February 22, 2026 08:27
I pity the future historical linguits who will try to reconstruct German and Italian based on this bilingual text on a q-tips box 🫠 German: Do not insert into the ear canal Italian: Do not throw in the toilet.
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Published: February 8, 2026 08:10
A book I wished I had found in the first month of my PhD and not in the last: Toulmin (2009), From linguistic to sociolinguistic reconstruction Chap 3 is a superb discussion of reconstruction and subgrouping in dialect continua (aka everywhere) 1/3 …
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Published: February 4, 2026 12:03
One common misconception about the Neogrammarians is that they were defenders of the Tree Model.* In fact, they took up Schuchardt's ideas and expressed the still common view that Tree and Wave describe different aspects of language history. 1/2 *This…
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Published: January 29, 2026 10:12
Virtually every paragraph in my PhD thesis chapter on diversification is followed by a footnote such as "cf. Hermann Paul (1880) for a similar line of reasoning" - the guy already knew it all 😎 21st cent. linguist: this was first proposed by linguist x in…