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jú @joolischka.bsky.social · 8h

Die kurze Runde, die zweite Mahd. Schön schaut es aus.

Sonnenuntergang über dem Wald, im Vordergrund zu langen Reihen gemähtes Gras auf einer großen wiesenfläche.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 9h

Vengeance [wèngschangs] = wenig Chance ?

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 12h

Chronologically Num 》PB would likely mean that PB is 4th C. AD at its earliest. Which is not entirely out of question, but still a bit of a stretch

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 12h

Taal kleurt je blik op de wereld: ‘Bergen kunnen zorgen voor meer hoogtebepalingen in je taal’ www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Toegang geblokkeerd / Access Blocked

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 13h

Bienen gut. (wir hatten lezten Sommer ein Wildbienennest im Garten)

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 15h

I disabled automatic stuff. Which makes me write Univrrstyi, but helps against worse

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 16h

Just received this great book by Massinissa Garaoun published by the Prensas de la Univrrsidad de Zaragoza

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 20h

Nobody: — Absolutely nobody: — Me: which blob on the map does not correspond to a city mentioned in the Amarna letters?

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 20h

🤷 My Arabic teacher was from there, and otherwise, I only know IL cities that appear in the Amarna letters. So my choice makes perfect sense

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 20h

I just went for the Bahai temple 🤷

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't tell Moses. He was very proud of it.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe Julie-who-just-followed-me would have liked it 🤷‍♂️

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When they had this "diminish a band's name" going on, I suggested "Numbers". It deserved more than two likes out of politeness

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

you'll need to start doing product advertisements. It's win-win: you'll get money and you'll lose followers 👻

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He’s gonna be so mad when we throw out this box

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

aan de keuze voor "sortir" in plaats van "venir" (wat niets ruimtelijks heeft). Maar ik weet het ook niet, vandaar dat ik hier rondvraag

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Or an ancient remnant from the times that “venir de” still had an element of spatial reference to it, very nice construction!

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But the “prendre” is not part of the expression in the Simenon quote and the “en” is pretty concrete in its reference — it is just about “prendre du café”

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🙏 Interesting! In the passage it is clearly just a way to refuse coffee, as he just had it at an other place. Nothing disagreeable or impolite intended

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🙏 I love the construction — grammaticalized to temporality but still retaining some spatial reference 😍

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wasn't aware that one can say in French "Je sors d'en prendre", which I think must be sth like "I just had it (scil. coffee) but at an other place" (Simenon, I'm reading theory as you can see)

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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Forest, Brussels (Belgium).

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🎶kindje kun je met je tenen bij je neus?🎶 (met als uitsmijter: kindje kun je met je oren bij je neus?) youtu.be/sH2ZJ0ydic8?...

youtu.be

kamperen • nijntje op vakantie • de musical

YouTube video by nijntje

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

you did much better than I. My last number was pure luck

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(apparently it was rejected, which I am very relieved about)

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Still good that they informed you. I am always slightly afraid that I'll hear about a publication of mine being published in which I had no hand (once a former student told me they had submitted an article in co-authorship with me because it reflected some discussions we had)

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Minister for Porcine Aviation @calenhad-social.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An owl is merely cat software running on bird hardware with the flying plugin installed.

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Nachtbibliothekar @nachtbibliothekar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Herbst des Lesens. Leuchtende Sonntagslektüren für Euch. 🖼️ Johan Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1858-1912): Læsende Lille Pige (dt.: Ein lesendes Mädchen) (1900) #theartofreading #readerslife #booksky #lesen

Gemälde des dänischen Malers Johan Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1858–1912) mit dem Titel »Læsende Lille Pige'« (engl.: A Little Girl Reading). Es entstand 1900.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Btw the Bantu language has 7x more speakers than the Polynesian one

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is slso a Bantu language called Tonga. That would have earned me even less points I guess 🤷

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is certainly an explanation that should be taken very seriously. Maybe it is just our bias that makes us doubt shoe agentivity? In fact, it is them that carry us while we're outside, why pretend we have a say in that? Shoes should control the means of locomotion.

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Maarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's a major difference in explaining shoes vs cats under beds. The cat may have gone there on its own initiative, the shoe may have inspired you with its under-the-bed wish, but still needed your putting. (sorry, I am a bit tired from my Ferris wheel adventure today)

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