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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

is it possible he met Lady Philosophy, not Jesus

Forget the contradictions about how Jesus (even at 5'11") is probably no more than a couple inches taller than Poirot yet "as tall as eternity"
—whatever the hell that means. Or how Jesus is

Translation Cons. Phil. Book 1 Prosa 1
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1 While I was pondering thus in silence, and using my pen to set down so tearful a complaint, there appeared standing over my head a woman's form, whose countenance was full of majesty, whose eyes shone as with fire and in power of insight surpassed the eyes of men, whose colour was full of life, whose strength was yet intact though she was so full of years that none would ever think that she was subject to such age as ours. One could but doubt her varying stature, 2 for at one moment she repressed it to the common measure of a man, at another she seemed to touch with her crown the very heavens: and when she had raised higher her head, it pierced even the sky and baffled the sight of those who would look upon it. 3 Her clothing was wrought of the finest thread by subtle workmanship brought to an indivisible piece. This had she woven with her own hands, as I afterwards did learn by

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"i define 'assimilation' as meaning that they no longer bother me personally, and seeing them in public bothers me"

"Successful assimilation is precisely that you wouldn't notice it, we wouldn't have anything to talk about," Keeperman said. "The mere fact of us being able to notice that, no, this is not an assimilated group, this is just a bunch of Indians at the game, is itself sort of definitionally the case that they're not yet assimilated."

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

shooting your shot on r/learn_arabic. you gotta respect it

Erllearn_arabic 1h
For those of you here who are non-Muslim Arabic speakers, why are you not convinced by arguments for the Quran from linguistic beauty? Do you believe it's subjective, not as impressive as made out to be, or something else entirely?
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

working on a thing that lets you define a linguistic structure as a graph, add some constraints (like parts of speech, or specific lexemes), then search a corpus for that structure. the example here is to perceive somebody/something doing (always with "-ing") something.

a graph interface with three nodes created, called perception and perceived_action and perceived_entity. they are linked together and each node has a few constraints listed. the header is Query Definition

search results containing the first three of 14 results from a corpus of alice in wonderland. the three results include the detected sequences "...to see if she was going...", "....to see what was coming", "heard something splashing..."

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

just came across this vintage matt_boot_ meme

pokemon dratini through dragonite wvolving as the word oh changes to ope, oops, whoops, whoopsy-daisy

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

if you're interested and need/want a challenge! i hope this isn't too easy

some rectangular buildings in a city with lots of clean glass windows

a long road next to a paved walking path amid grassy fields and maybe a body of water nearby

on the other side of a river, on a hill, a big blocky apartment building with an angular spiral staircase

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@celtiber.eurosky.social i want you to geolocate these photos i took. they are from 4 different countries

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dante was a funny guy. "who was the first human to speak? let us consult scripture. scripture says it was Eve, to the serpent! buuuuut wait a minute, i just can't believe that a woman would get to have that distinction; so it must have been Adam! QED"

DANTIS DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA 1 4.
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primitus locutus fuerit, et ad quem, et ubi, et quando,
nec non et sub quo ydiomate primiloquium emanauit. Se-cundum quidem quod in principio legitur Genesis, ubi de " primordio mundi sacratissima scriptura pertractat, mulierem
inuenitur ante omnes fuisse locutam, scilicet presumptuo-
sissimam Euam, cum diabolo sciscitanti respondit: 'De y fructu lignorum que sunt in paradiso uescimur; de fructu uero ligni quod est in medio paradisi, precepit nobis deus ne comederemus nec tangeremus, ne forte moriamur'. Sed 12 quanquam mulier in scriptis prius inueniatur locuta, ratio-nabilius tamen est ut hominem prius locutum fuisse creda-mus; et inconuenienter putatur tam egregium humani generis 1; actum non prius a uiro quam a femina profluxisse. Ra-tionabiliter ergo credimus ipsi Ade prius datum fuisse loqui
ab eo qui statim ipsum plasmauerat. Quod autem prius 1s

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this is fascinating bc my daughter (about to turn 4) has in the last few months been constantly pointing out when i am wrong abt something. "you thought the stuffy was downstairs but it was upstairs!" "you thought we were logged in but we aren't!" she loves verbalizing what she thinks i was thinking

from science insights dot org. The Core Milestones: Ages 3 to 5
The preschool years are where theory of mind takes its biggest leaps. Children acquire these abilities in a reliable, ordered sequence, meaning a child who masters a later skill has almost always already mastered the earlier ones.

Diverse desires (around age 3): Children understand that someone else might want something different from what they want. If a child prefers apples but learns that a friend prefers bananas, they can predict the friend will choose the banana.
Diverse beliefs (around age 3 to 4): Children grasp that someone else can hold a different belief about the same situation. A child understands desires before beliefs, which makes sense: wanting is more concrete than thinking.
Knowledge access (around age 4): Children recognize that someone who hasn’t seen or been told something simply doesn’t know it. A child who has peeked inside a box understands that a friend who hasn’t peeked doesn’t know what’s inside.
False belief (around age 4 to 5): This is the landmark milestone. Children understand that someone can hold a belief that is flat-out wrong, and that the person will act on that wrong belief anyway.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

mine look similar though i start in the middle and go up. looks like they start up top like a backwards 6. interesting

d like a backwards 6 connecting to the neighboring i

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

great sentence from this week's Coptic reading group: ⲁⲣⲓⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ϫⲉⲟⲩϩⲟⲧⲉ ⲡⲉ ϩⲉ ⲉϩⲣⲁⲓ ⲉⲛϭⲓϫ ⲙⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲉⲧⲟⲛϩ ari-p-ˈmɛɛwə čə-u-ˈhɔtə pə ˈhɛ əhˈrai ə-n-ˈkʲič m̩-p-ˈnutə ət-ˈɔnəh "remember that it is a fear[ful thing] to fall into the hands of the living God " (on why we should repent of our sins)

coptic text from enconium on apa victor part 2 on coptic scriptorium

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

can anyone tell me what ⲡⲉ– is doing here? looks like this is trying to say "these works won't/don't/didn't avail (ⲣ︦–ϣⲁⲩ) you" but i do not recognize the prefix. could it be a scribal error for ⲙ︦ⲡⲉ–?

coptic text from Letters and Sermons of Besa (Kuhn). peneihbēwe rshau nak.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

are we ⁰human or are we ⁰dancer

Layton Coptic grammar. 290 Class name, as such, is predicated by a zero article phrase: NE-TEyTEXNH гар пєФрец-таміє-'скун Acts 18:3 "For their occupation was tentmak-
er." Cf. also 136.
Further examples: пєулоутє гар пє рсмє ShIV 183:6 "For their god is the luman
being as such"; «суло4 пє 'хо-оу | "шіпє пє 'сштм єро-оу ShAmél 1 228:7
"To speak of them amounts lo disgrace itself, 10 hear of them amounts 1o shame itself."

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

look at this beautiful chiastic syntax: ⲧⲉⲧⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲟⲩⲛ ⲅⲁⲣ ⲛ︦ⲛⲉϩⲃⲏⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲕⲁⲕⲉ ϫⲉⲟⲩⲛⲉ ⲁⲩⲱ ϫⲉⲟⲩⲛⲉ ⲛⲉϩⲃⲏⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲟⲩⲟⲉⲓⲛ "for you (pl) know the works of darkness what-they-are (čə-u-nə), and you know what-they-are the works of light"

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

based on the visual evidence, do you think "rasp-berry" is meant to be a portmanteau of "raspberry" and "strawberry" here

photo of a box with illustrated school bus and animals, with beet, apple, strawberry, kale, and raspberry visible.
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

in Biblical Aramaic it seems like there is gemination of the first radical .. but only when the second/third can't be geminated?? idk

LESSON XIII
GEMINATE VERBS
1. Geminate (or Ayin Ayin) Verbs: In this class, where the Ayin letter and the Lamedh letter (second and third consonants) are alike, there is a combination of forms which can only be adequately explained by assuming that some are fundamentally biconsonantal while others are triconsonantal.
In other words, sometimes there is either gemination of the identical consonants or some compensation for it, but elsewhere there is none. If the expected gemination or doubling of the Ayin letter (second consonant) does not occur, there is usually doubling of the Pe letter (first consonant), especially in the imperfect and other forms with preformatives. Or, where this cannot take place because of a laryngeal or resh, there is either a compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel or the resolving of the doubling by a nun (see I 3).
(A) Peal: most of the occurrences in the Peal are with verbs that have another weakness in addition to being Geminate (see the classes of verbs both Geminate and also laryngeal or Pe Nun below).

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Coptic sentence of the day: ⲉⲧⲃⲉⲡⲁⲓϭⲉ ⲛⲉⲥⲛⲏⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲧⲣⲉⲛⲙⲉⲣⲉⲡ︦ⲡⲉⲑⲟⲟⲩ. "and therefore, my siblings, let's not love wickedness." morphologically: m̩pr̩-trə-n-mərə-p-pəthɔw "don't-let-'s-love-the-thatwhichisevil" from Besa's Letters & Sermons (Kuhn p. 58)

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i don't know that i've ever seen "negative" as a verb. i would say "negate" for all these. maybe this is a more precise linguistic term than "negate"?

Layton Sahidic Coptic grammar. rogation; the indispensable negator is an. E.g. мн M-al an пє псунре M-п2ам-(yє Matt 13:55 "Is it not this one who is the carpenter's son?"
(g) Incapable of being negatived are: (i) the suffixally conjugated verboids Narat- "blessed is ...' 378, пєхє- 'said' 380, Neup- 'is pleasant' and оуєт- 'is distinct' 382; (ii) тарє- the future conjunctive base 357; (iii) the impersonal predicate 2aмoї 487; (iv) the existential-indicating base eIc-
'behold' 477.
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NEXUS MORPHS AND NEGATORS
SPECIFIC NEGATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL ELEMENT OF THE TEXT
251 The following morphs can express negation where nexus is not present.
(a) The prefix M- negatives the lexical content of the infinitive as verbal noun, and the combination TM-Infinitive enters into article phrases; cf. 105(c).
(b) (N-)... aN can specifically negative the grammatical relationship of an individual element of the text (attributive term 98, entity term 143, inflected modifier 157, adverbial modifier 199, conjunction 236).

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

can't wait to find out what happened here

TO NUNS WHO ARE DISRUPTING THE COMMUNITY. followed by coptic text. from the letters and sermons of Besa

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

apparently 3000 years ago we were already treating ailments with "hair of the dog"

schniedewind and hunt ugaritic textbook. 18 y'msn.nn, D prefix conjugation 3cdual (so Sivan, Grammar,
136); however, Hebrew uses the G-stem for "load, carry."
21 w'atnth, "urine" (compare Akkadian šinatu).
29 šrklb, compare Akkadian šêr kalbi "dog-hair," a plant with medicinal qualities.
6.2. MOURNING FROM THE BAAL CYCLE
6.2.1 Text (KTU 1.5 vi, 11-25)

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Coptic word of the day: ⲥⲁ–ⲛ–ϫⲏϭⲉ sa-n-čekʲə "seller of purple goods" (ἡ πορφυρόπωλις, Acts 16:14)

crum coptic dictionary. purple embroidery: Jud 8 26 S mopúpeos ; Is 3 21 B ut sup;
o nx. S: Islc;
camx., ne., purple-

seller : Ac 16 I4SB(F relbecr) порфрт)s iele;

; بياءة الارجوان - 0 0 1)

PLond 4 I62 ZavTourje (or ?= ca raIse, u fre).

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

so these people are poking fun at the (English-influenced) retroflex "r" associated with certain speakers from Guaynabo, PR, and LOOK HOW THEY ARE SPELLING IT!

POV: la de Guaynabo y el iced coffee
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No sabía que la lavanda venía en syrup y de ahí .... screenshot of an instagram video of a guy doing his perception of a female guaynabo accent. not a very flattering still but my wife sent it to me since i don't have instagram so not much i can do about that. check out the video

*MOCAR
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Hace tanta calörT. Sí, sé que es una flörT. Yo prefiero el café sin azúcärT.
Te
pasas.
La dicción guaynabeña debería ser estudiada en cada departamento de Lingüística de la isla.
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See translation

pagingdralvarez •
3h
Sin azúcaRL pero con lavendeRL
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javieerpedro 2h • Author
@pagingdralvarez Amooo amiguic
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Massachusett word of the day: ohquompiyeuai /ahkwąᐧpaᐧy-əw-aᐧy/ time/season-3-II "it is time (for something)"

experience mayhew's massachusett psalter. waiwaonkah:
126 Ohguompiyeuai kut.
cannahkofinneat, Jehovah, ne-wutche nag matergunnehteo.
pok kuttinnomatuonk.
127 No.
i26 It is time for thee?
Lord, to work: for they, have made void thy law.
137. There

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

even in the "Vowels" appendix there is only passing acknowledgement that there may have been [e] as a "shading" (=allophone?) but no remark on this ubiquitous preposition

Grammatical Précis
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The bi-labials p and b may vary from language to language in spelling a common word; e.g., Ugaritic nbš; Hebrew wei, "soul, person" (also note Hebrew/Aramaic Sia/>no "iron").
7.2.2 Vowels
Reconstruction of vowels is a difficult problem in Ugaritic. Such reconstruction is an exercise in comparative Semitics. It is important to recognize that vowels reflects speech and dialect, which can vary widely because of geography and social context.
The evidence from Ugaritic words written with alephs suggests that the Proto-Semitic vowel system did not undergo change in Ugaritic, apart from the contraction of dipthongs and triphthongs (see below). As in Akkadian, ther ere probably three short and three
long vowels: la, ā, i, i, u, u/, but it is probable that shadings of these basic vowels also occurred (e.g., e, e, 0, 0)
The contracted vowels are posited on t
basis of syllabic
transcriptions that appear to have been similar to Hebrew (i.e., *aw
> 0; *ay>ē), as opposed to Babylonian Akkadian (i.e., *aw >й and *ay > i). Following the convention of Akkadian, the macron (і.e., й i a) marks the contraction of a consonant (i.e., a diphthong), while the circumflex (i.e., û î â) marks the contraction of two syllables (e.g., a triphthong) into one syllable.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

my Ugaritic textbook (Schniedewind & Hunt) is pretty clear that this preposition is /le-/ but so far i can't find a short /e/ vowel anywhere else in the book. FWIW wikipedia claims Ugaritic had only three short vowels (a, i, u) interesting

2.10:2-3 l.plsy rgm /e-pilsiya rugum/ To Pilsiya speak!
In this line we find a bound preposition, /le-l, and a PN indicating the recipient of the letter. There is some debate whether Ugaritic PNs were fully declined in the manner of other nouns and adjectives. If this name were declinable, it would be in the genitive case since it follows the preposition.
As we will discover in this and succeeding lines, prepositions are tiny, trying members of a language. Their idiomatic use is clear to native speakers but often unclear to the scholar removed from
9 See J. Huehnergard, The Akkadian of Ugarit (Atlanta, 1989), 149-154, and
"Akkadian Evidence for Case Endings for Case-Vowels on Ugaritic Bound
Forms," Journal of Cuneiform Studies 33 (1981), 199-205.
Letters
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the active use of the language by several centuries. The use of the preposition /le-/ (syllabic le-e in Ug 5 130 III, 5a) here may be described as a l(amed) of advantage, for it indicates the person for whom the wish is intended (see Sivan, Grammar, 195-97) regarding the nuances of the word "to").

^ Phonology
Ugaritic had 28 consonantal phonemes (including two semivowels) and eight vowel phonemes (three short vowels and five long vowels): a āiTu ú é ó. The phonemes é and o occur only as long vowels and are the result of monophthongization of the diphthongs ay and aw, respectively. Triphthongs too were contracted frequently: aya, iya > â; iyi > î; ayu, iyu, uyu > û but āyu > â. 18]

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

god damn it GIVE ME THE BAAL CYCLE you cowards

from schniedewind and hunt's primer on ugaritic.
An explanatory word is necessary about the strategy of beginning with the letters instead of the epic poetry. Although many teachers of Ugaritic themselves (including us) probably learned Ugaritic by reading the epic poetry, this volume begins with the letters for a variety of reasons. Among these is the fact that, to overstate the case slightly, starting Ugaritic with the Baal Cycle is akin to introducing Biblical Hebrew by an inductive study of Job. This analogy also raises the methodological problem of

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Coptic also has ⲙⲟⲩⲓ mwi, not sure where it comes from besides earlier <m3i> "lion" (i thought i read an interesting proposal for it once, but apparently it's not in Černý)

entry for moui lion in černys coptic etymological dictionary

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i read this as "kickasso" the first couple times

a sign reading Kidcasso (as in kid + picasso) in a handwritten script

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Coptic word of the day: ϫⲉϯⲛⲁⲉϣϯⲟⲩⲃⲉⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ če-ti-na-eš-ti-ube-p-nute QUOT-1S-FUT-POT-give-against-DEF-god Ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲅⲁⲣ ϫⲉϯⲛⲁⲉϣϯⲟⲩⲃⲉⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲁⲩⲥⲱⲃⲉ ⲛⲥⲱϥ ϩⲓⲧⲛⲁⲛⲧⲱⲛⲓⲟⲥ. For the thought (of the devil) that "I will be able to fight God" was mocked by Anthony. (ed. Garitte 1949, S. Antonii Vita)

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

love this helpful explainer at the Boston Children's Museum

Did dinosaurs and people live at the same time?
Nope.
¿Vivían los dinosaurios y personas al mismo tiempo?
No.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Coptic word of the day: ⲡⲙⲉⲥⲧⲉⲡⲉⲧⲛⲁⲛⲟⲩϥ p-meste-p-et-nanū-f "the hater of that which is good" here used of the devil (ⲡⲇⲓⲁⲃⲟⲗⲟⲥ) (Garitte 1949, S. Antonii Vita)

coptic text containing the words in question

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

somebody got to write "up and [verb]ed" so we got that at least

Rush-hour snarls; dead train at
Charles
By adamg on Fri., 8/7/2026 - 9:34 am
At 7:53 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes - and the dreaded "trains may stand by at stations" message due to a train that up and died at Charles/MGH. The T declared the delays at an end at 8:39 a.m.

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