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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 10h
Oh
Etymology

Inherited noun from Proto-Semitic *ḫatan- (“son-in-law”). Thereof the base stem was formed in the sense of a causative “to have a bridegroom”; the active part خَاتِن (ḵātin) being the father-in-law and a circumciser: though we cannot answer at this place the ancient history of circumcision in detail, nor will anyone on the internet without great animosity, apparently from the occasion of taking a wife a man’s prepuce was considered less necessary, hence the making eligible was equated with circumcising. The other meanings given by the lexicographic tradition of “outwitting, circumventing” and “cutting around or truncating” probably don’t point to an original word in meanings of going around or cutting around but are rather vulgarities punning upon the practice of circumcision; see also our explanation of عَرُوب (ʕarūb).

Verb

خَتَنَ • (ḵatana) I (non-past يَخْتِنُ (yaḵtinu), verbal noun خَتْن (ḵatn) or خِتَان (ḵitān) or خِتَانَة (ḵitāna))
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I think this is what most people mean when they say "arabic is just a dialect of aramaic". What they imagine as "old aramaic" is another name for a higher node in the branch
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
At no point going back does it stop being hebrew. But at some point old hebrew and old arabic look identical, and so both descend from the old versions of eachother
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Technically speaking, hebrew does descend from arabic. And also arabic descends from hebrew. And both from aramaic!
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My reconstruction of the Proto-Afro-Asiatic pronouns
First entry is singular, second is plural for each row:

1st person: *ʔa, *na
2nd person masculine: *ta, *tumu
2nd person feminine: *tata, *tinna
3rd person masculine: *sija, *sijumu
3rd person feminine: *sijata, *sijinna
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We wuz xshāyathiyānam nij kūmat and shit
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alhamdo rellahe rabbel alamin
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Unlike mountains? I feel like iranian plateau <-> middle east have enough connections to eachother that any demarcation should include both
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Also, since I believe people are inherently logical by virtue of language, and there already is "personality you have in X situation" and "Y situation", this works better
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You can "capture" a mind before it swaps. During that moment it will only spout non contradictory opinions. I don't know how to do it well but it can be done
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One mind cannot hold 2 contradictory opinions at the same time. Most people switch between different minds, sometimes within the same conversation
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Another sign that my persian forgetting is progressing: I did روانی‌ای for crazyness, and then wondered why my brain hated it. Then my mom said روانی بودن and I was like "oh right"
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Iranians love using -i to make adjectives out of nouns. They also love using -i to make nouns out of adjectives. They will never use them both together
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If all goes well and both families approve, inverse!
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Probably also needs to take into account number of different possible syllables
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The relationship between phoneme count and average word length
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YESSSSSSSSS
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's still people who are against spoken hebrew for lashon wodesh reasons? Give it up bruh
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh this isn't new. I have screenshots of his nazi stuff from 5 years ago when I first blocked him
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miscarriage is just سقط -> سقط کردن
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chag sukkot sameach to all my observing followers! 🥳🥳🥳🛖🌾🍋🌴🎍🥳🥳🥳
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Their شماها moment
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I thought it was [fell [like broken pieces of glass on water]] and got whiplash for a second with the syriac
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Especially when x is also in 2 enclitic pronouns!
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When k->x and ح->x of you also add r->x and your language plays fast and loose with consonant clusters and voicing half your words now have x in them! This is not balanced!
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You never realized how horrible a sound uvular r is until it's removed. The ayin's also add a lot
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MK Ahmed Tibi makes hebrew sound so good
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The entire phrase was borrowed from persian maybe? ahwaturki, instead of ahwa turki
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gmar chativa tova to all my observing followers
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The funny thing is, it's winter! You weren't doing shit with your afternoon sunlight! Glad walking in the morning has become a death sentence though. So much for walkability!
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Never seen a non-entitled argument for permanent dst. Almost always a 20-something year old who throws half the population under the bus for "muh afternoon"
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Knowyourmemesification of wiktionary
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Je t'ai regardé vs m'a dit
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Romance languages kinda have enclitic pronouns like middle persian had so it would be cool
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Somehow feel like @ajab.bsky.social would know more
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Apart from the actual suspects some additional names are read too, again based on first/second hand account: هرکی دیده، هرکی ندیده Whoever saw, whoever hasn't seen همسایه اینوری، همسایه اونوری The neighbor on one side, the neighbor on the other side
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Daughter-in-law/their family become victims
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Actually this isn' the full ritual lol I've never seen it myself but from first hand accounts circles are drawn on the egg with coal for each suspect, something is sprinkled on top, then they press on the egg with their fingers. Since usually the one doing it is an older woman, usually her...
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have you seen/heard about the ritual or did you independently come up with it because this is exactly how it happens
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Evil Eye: A Casebook by Alan Dundes
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Glad to see the iranian invention of the evil eye caster revealing spell has been written down
When it has been proven that the evil eye has been given, steps may be taken to detect the guilty person. A common expediment is to hold an egg between the two palms and to press upon it as the name of each suspect is spoken. At the name of the guilty one the egg will break.
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Loaf ward Loaf dey
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not as bad as when I found natali peretz in idf uniform waving a flag on a tank but I did expect more from cohen, she always does like presenting libby
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Far right in the normal sense, not the israel sense of right of fascism. Loves doing PR for netanyahu (to an embarrasingly uncouth degree, I heard people who attended her concert where netanyahu "just decided" to up and get avip booth weren't pleased to have him blasted on screen), idf songs, etc.
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Parents conversation in the other room suddenly revealing words. Apparently آشپال is Luri for collander?
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Searching up riff cohen, and a clip of her performing with eden ben zaken, the far right singer showed up. Disgusting
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Go suck a dick @moderation.bsky.app
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What kind of 1984 shit is this
Bluesky post tag

"Rude

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Source:@moderation.bsky.app"
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No one talks about how french has construct state
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forstomakdis.bsky.social @forstomakdis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's an old phoneician spelling of the infinitive construct GBT NGBH LPN BOL WHMFBYN YLKW YZDYNW
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