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linguistics + statistics, music, biking, coffee de Chicago à Montréal

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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
La saison commence!
Des framboises noires et des bleuets sauvages dans des paniers en carton
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Les fruits d’hiver
Un melon dans la rueUne banane dans la rue
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
אָרים איז מײן שטיבעלע, מיט אַן אַלטן דאַך, װאַקסן אין אים קינדערלעך קלײנינקע אַסך. גײט אין גאַס אַ רעגנדל, װערט אין שטיבל נאַס— לױפֿן מײנע קינדערלעך, שפּילן זיך אין גאַס. גײט אין גאַס אַ רעגנדל, גײט ער זײ אַנטקעגן— װאַקסן מײנע קינדערלעך, װי בלימעלעך אין רעגן. אײדע מאַזע
דער טאָװל פֿון ״װאקסן מײנע קינדערלעך״. דער סוף ״ך״ גײט אַראָפּ צו אַ צײכענונג פֿון קינדער מיט װײץ.
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
You wouldn’t מוז a noun
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“In Eynem” describes it as a matter of degree, with מוז being stronger (the first page gives some examples and the second page gives explanation). “Yiddish II” describes מוז as obligation as opposed to necessity for דארף. They also behave differently in the negative.
Page 550 of In Eynem with examples of the difference between muz and darf in YiddishPage 565 of In Eynem with an explanation of various modal verbs in YiddishPage 161 of Yiddish II with a table showing “darf” for necessity and “muz” for obligation
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Book cover for “How to Date Buildings” by Trevor Yorke
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Early Paul Sarbanes sighting
Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center sign with DC Metro logo at nightasked me, 'Where is Spiro?'" A young Greek lawyer in the legislature, Paul Sarbanes, says, "Agnew never did anything for the Greek community in Baltimore except leave it at the earliest opportunity." Rabbi Israel Goldman, a member of the Maryland
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
אָהאָ, פֿאַלנדיקע בלעטער! אָהאָ, פֿליִענדיקע טעג! אָהאָ, װי װעל איך איצטער בלאָנדזשען װען ס'ליגט געדיכטער נעפּל אױף מײַן װעג
בײמער מיט גרינע, געלע, אראנזשע, און רויטע בלעטער אויף א בארג
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
פּאָפּאָ מאַקעראָנדל! הײַנט בין איך געגאַנגען צו אַ פֿעסטיװאַל פֿון פּאָפּאָ און איך האָב געהאַט אַ סך הנאה. פּאָפּאָ ביר, קאַװע מיט פּאָפּאָ מילך, און אַ סך מער װונדערלעכע זאַכן!
גרין מאקעראנדל מיט געל פילעכץ
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Same shot same day
Photo looking out over railroad tracks towards the tall buildings of the Chicago skyline under a partly cloudy sky
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
שהחיינו אויף בלאנקיטנע ציגנבלעטער (האַסקאַפּ)
בריאש מיט קרעם און דריי לאנגע בלויע יאגדעס
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
They finally arrived!
South facing view of the concrete-protected bike lane on Wabash, painted green, with ten new bike corrals installed
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Remembered seeing this in a Kadia Molodowsky story (Der Eydem). Also fun to see the lack of caught-cot merger.
— אפשר װילט איר, „יאָנג פּיפּל“, קאָקאַ־קאָלאַ ? — און זי האָט
געבראַכט פאַר זײ קאָקאַ־קאָלאַ.
אַן אַנדערש מאָל האָט זי געפרעגט, צי זײ װילן ניט קײן „האַט דאָגס“,
צי עס פעלט זײ ניט קײן סיגאַרעטן. עס איז ניט געװען קײן זאַך צו שװער
און צו טײער פאַר אײרינען מיט ראָבערטן.
מעקס האָט אױסגערעדט דעם װײב:
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Maybe not as folksy/fun as you’re looking for but אָװאַ (stress on the final syllable) is an option.
Dictionary entry from Verterbukh
אָװאַ׳
(אינט)
gosh! wow! oh boy!; well, well! you don't say!; oh
dear! alas!
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I lived
Photo of Chicago taken from the South Side, Lake Michigan to the east and bare trees on the left
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Love this story about him during the filming of “Blood Simple”
Joel Coen had trouble convincing M. Emmet Walsh to pick his hat up off the ground in the movie's climactic ending scene. Walsh had a laundry list of all the reasons his character would not do such a thing, each of which Coen tried and failed to debate.
After minutes of arguing on set, Coen asked Walsh,
"Will you please just humor me?", to which Walsh replied, "I'm humoring you by doing this whole fucking movie."
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Acabo de leer “Limpia” de Alia Trabucco Zerán y me encantó. Una historia cautivadora.
En los veranos mi mamá y yo cosechábamos moras. No se crean que es otro desvío, las moras son importantes. Ella me enseñó cómo agarrarlas, cómo arrancarlas sin pincharme, cómo esquivarles las espinas. El secreto está en los ojos, decía, que no se te adelanten. Porque si estás mirando la siguiente mora, ¡zas!, te agarra la espina. A mí me atrapaban la ropa, los brazos, el pelo.
Nunca pude controlar mis ojos. Se me iban a la mora siguiente, a su tinta negra en mi boca, mientras mi mano quedaba atrás, enganchada en la enredadera. Una vez agarré un ramillete completo y lo metí tal cual al canasto.
¿Y esto?, dijo mi mamá cuando vio los frutos todavía verdes.
Codiciosa, dijo, las moras no maduran todas juntas para que nadie, nunca, deje la rama pelada. Nosotras sacamos las de hoy,mañana otros sacan las de mañana. Si te llevas la rama completa
otros se quedan sin, Lita.
Las moras verdes no maduraron. Se pudrieron y las boté. Las demás, las negras, las comimos hasta el invierno: mermelada de mora, queque de mora, kuchen de mora, leche de mora. Pero me fui por las ramas, o por las espinas, tal vez.
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Northbound also working great once you get farther north
Two cars parked in a bike lane, one of which is also parked by a fire hydrant
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
New painting for the southbound side (working great as can be seen by the 3 cars parked in the bike lane), plus the conflicting right turn lane for cars.
Three stripes of green paint on a southbound bike lane on Wabash, with three parked cars blocking the bike lane. The right turn lane for cars is left of the bike lane.
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Tweet by Supper Mario Broth
@MarioBrothBlog
In honor of MAR10 Day, here is a brief timeline of Nintendo's official stance of whether Mario's last name is
"Mario" or not, which has changed several times over the years.
Mario's last name timeline
Red: Mario; blue: not Mario
- 1981: Mario is introduced, has no last name
- 1983: Mario Bros. is released, suggesting Mario's full name is Mario Mario; listed as such in some licensed material
- 1989: NOA interview states Mario's name is not Mario Mario
- 1993: Mario's name is stated to be Mario Mano in the Super Mario Bros. movie
2012: Sator Iwata states Mario's name is not Mario Mario
- 2015: Shigeru Miyamoto states Mario's name is Mario Mario
2020 - Current day: Mario's name is still Mario Mario, though this can change at any moment.
surce: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matio:matiowiki.com/Matio
11:19 AM • 3/10/22 • Twitter Web App
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Chicago friends, come by! I won’t spoil which one, but we’ll be closing out with a song by Ziad Rahbani so you know it’s a banger.
Music Poster
WANEES ZAROUR, DIRECTOR
THE MIDDLE EAST MUSIC ENSEMBLE PRESENTS
ALL OF US
A COLLAGE OF TURKISH, PERSIAN & ARABIC MUSICAL TRADITIONS
DECEMBER 8, 2024 | 5 PM |
DOORS AT 4:30
REVA & DAVID LOGAN
CENTER FOR THE ARTS
915 E 60TH ST. CHICAGO, IL 60637
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
On the left you can see it in Karmona (though he's inconsistent about using it) and on the right you can see it in El Tiempo. It is making a distinction, since if you use the varrica for שׁ then you can use an unmarked ש for שׂ.
Rashi script on a yellowed page:
די טוניסלי חאיירידין פאשֿה, פאשֿה קי אירה אקיל טיימפו גראן בֿיזירRashi script on a white page with bleeding text in background:
ביניינדו אה לאס ריבואילטאס קי בושֿקה
אה קונטראאיר לוס קארליסטוס, איל גובירנו
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#LadinoWOTD el kushák "belt" echar kushak (para pelear) "pick a fight"
Rashi script:
קושֿאק
איגֿאר קושֿאק פארה פיליאר
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#LadinoWOTD manga "sleeve of a garment" es otro par de mangas "it's a very different thing (lit. it's another pair of sleeves)"
Rashi script:
מאנגה
איס אוטרו פאר די מאנגאס
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#LadinoWOTD el kabát "fault, guilt, failure" tener kabat "to be responsible, to be at fault, to be wrong"
Rashi script:
קאבאט
טיניר קאבאט
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#LadinoWOTD kapák "lid" kapák i tendjeré "fools of a feather, two inseparable fools (lit. lid and pot)"
Rashi script:
קאפאק
קאפאק אי טינגירי
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
#YiddishWOTD דער בײגל der beygl “bagel” לײגן דעם בײגל אױף leygn dem beygl af “lay the blame on (lit. lay the bagel on)”
Four Montreal-style bagels, two with sesame and two with everything.
פיר מאנטרעאל בײגל, צװײ מיט סומסום און צװײ מיש־⁠מאש.
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#LadinoWOTD pasto “taste, flavor”
Rashi script: פאסטו
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Marge Simpson “I just think they’re neat” meme but she’s holding a bunch of grapes
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Sears tower shot from the west, with a blue sky and tiny clouds, framed by two buildings on either side, and Union Station in front
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
They said no simping either
scipy.integrate.{simps,trapz, cumtrapz}
have been removed in favour of simpson,
trapezoid, and cumulative_trapezoid
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
it me
Unbaked round braided six-strand challah sitting on a black granite countertop
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
A new one has appeared
Blue framed sunglasses resting on a tree, divvy bikes and storefronts visible in background
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
In the style of the album cover for brat: green background with black text “chicago manual of style 18” one word per line
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 19/07/2024
Feel like pure shit just want him back x
Glass Box
You know, it's the old glass box at the - At the gas station,
Where you're using those little things
Trying to pick up the prize, And you can't find it.
It's-
And it's all these arms are going down in there, And so you keep dropping it
And picking it up again and moving it,
But一
Some of you are probably too young to remember those-Those glass boxes,
But —
But they used to have them
At all the gas stations
When I was a kid.
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
#LadinoWOTD kavo "end, edge" el kavo del mundo "the ends of the earth; a very distant place"
Rashi script:
קאבו
איל קאבו דיל מונדו
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
דאס איז דער מוח אויף יידיש
Matzo brei in a frying pan, from Tori Avey’s recipe
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD folór “fury, anger” vestirse de sanya i folor “be carried away with violent anger” (lit. get dressed in fury and anger)
Rashi script:
פולור
ביסטירסי די סאנייה אי פולור
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD ‎חאזינו hazino: sick al hazino se dize kyeres, al bweno se dize toma “To the sick say ‘do you want?’, to the healthy say ‘take’” #YiddishWOTD ‎קראנק krank: sick ‎א קראנקן פרעגט מען, א געזונטן גיט מען a krankn fregt men, a gezuntn git men “You ask the sick, you serve the healthy”
Rashi script:
חאזינו
אל חאזינו סי דיזי קייריס
אל בואינו סי דיזי טומה
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD mankar “lack, be missing” solo te manka ke te keshes “the only thing you don’t have is something to complain about” (you’re the last one who should be complaining)
Rashi script:
מאנקאר
סולו טי מאנקה קי טי קישיס
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
Stan Kelly “Sickos” meme in Yiddish:
יאָ, הע הע הע, יאָ!
פאסקודניאקעס
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD brisko “peach” briskero “peach tree”
Rashi script:
בריסקו
בריסקירו
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD חאזינו hazino: sick al hazino se dize kyeres, al bweno se dize toma “To the sick you say ‘do you want?’, to the healthy you say ‘take’” #YiddishWOTD קראנק krank: sick א קראנקן פרעגט מען, א געזונטן גיט מען a krankn fregt men, a gezuntn git men “You ask the sick, you serve the healthy”
Rashi script:
חאזינו

אל חאזינו סי דיזי קייריס 
אל בוהינו סי דיזי טומה
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD gayrét “effort, zeal, encouragement”
Rashi script:
גאייריט
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
None on Orange but the Pink line has a brief section like this too. Also parts of the Metra Electric run at grade, like in South Shore. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Me...
Metra Electric train running alongside the street at grade. Oglesby Ave street sign visible on the right.
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD foburgo “faubourg”
Rashi script:
פובורגו
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Greatest phone call scene
Peggy Olson from Mad Men answering a phone by saying “Pizza House!”
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD gastar “spend, consume” gastar a la bovedad “spend foolishly”
Rashi script:
גאסטאר
גאסטאר אה לה בובידאד
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
Missing Kunka. Starsiak is nice but not enough.
Starsiak clothing building, with stylized red font
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sonic & frankie knuckles @tsimbl.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
#LadinoWOTD gweso “bone” los gwesos ke akavas de rayer no me los des a komer “treat me with respect” (lit. the bones you just scraped clean, don’t give me them to eat)
Rashi script:
גואיסו
לוס גואיסוס קי אקאבאס די ראייר
נו מי לוס דיס א קומיר
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