ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026apparently part of Louisiana also has this change they should call it americanisation 000
Reposted by ヲンפינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying. 433956
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 07/10/2026it does feel like the general perception of protests like this from outside is that any protest happening anywhere is happening all over the country all at once, and therefore if you're there it must be affecting you 110
Reposted by ヲンJacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026[waking up at like 5:45 AM with an alarm set for 7:10] “Agh, I need more sleep.” 🧠 “You can check the Brazilian election results.” “No, I think I won’t get any more sleep if I do.” 🧠 “Yeah, but you have to know.” 071
Reposted by ヲンJoshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026it’s anti-Ephraimite discrimination 0295
Reposted by ヲンJacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think “support” has to be one of the more defanged verbs in modern discourse. It’s no longer helping something but just having the opinion that something should be helped. “I support the cause!” (No action taken.) “I support my friends!” (Never reaches out.) Saying you support is not support. 2111
Reposted by ヲンWord Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In which "decal" and "cockamamie" are the same word, both from French "décalcomanie"! "calque" ("to copy, to trace, to calque") is an extremely close relatively. Variously more distantly (all from Latin "calx": "heel"): "recalcitrant", "caltrop", "calzone", "Chaucer" 24518
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026maybe the biggest difficulty is untangling the assumption that if you love someone you'll generally go along with what they want, and that if you refuse to do that you're not loving them 020
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ultimately everyone is difficult in some way or other, so if you don't learn to love difficult people you don't learn to love anyone - just your ideas of who you want them to be 110
Reposted by ヲンMaarten Kossmann @maartenkossmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today at NACAL there was a fantastic talk by Massinissa Garaoun on pre-Hispanic toponomy in the Canary Islands. Based on extensive fieldwork, checking pronuniations and the topographical features the terms are connected to, he showed that there are many toponyms that are clearly... 13611
Reposted by ヲンJoshua Alfaro @joshuaalfaro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I must be getting old. Has it really been 25 years since the fall of the Median empire? 1346
Reposted by ヲンMarkˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We should really start using courtroom objections more often in everyday conversation 082
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I found a like carbonated milk drink called Skål the other day here. It was pretty good 010
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026might have to start using 'bathroom' for the bath part and 'wc' for the toilet part 110
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026getting an apartment with the bath and toilet in separate rooms is presenting me with a strange linguistic dilemma - my dialect has no words for either the toilet part or the bath part individually, and my one word 'bathroom' implies at least toilet and that there's no other bath location 110
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026tbf the whole 'we loaned the entire Latin and Greek lexicons wholesale so you can make valid new words with any root in them' thing is pretty unusual, but of course it is also not unique 010
Reposted by ヲンJacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026People who have never learned anything but English will learn the etymology of one word and be like “wow, English really is so many languages in a trench coat. It’s so wacky how our words come from different languages, ahahaha, how quirky. Must be the hardest language in the world.” 272
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026one of the points of reverse culture shock I had when I came back from Japan last time was 'what on earth are all these massive cars supposed to be for' 020
Reposted by ヲンJacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just so you guys can tell the difference, if you recommend a show to me and I am not interested, I will say “oo, maybe I’ll have to check it out” and then never watch it and if I am actually interested, I’ll say “oo, maybe I’ll have to check it out” and then never watch it. 2469
Reposted by ヲン👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comTrue Imperial Japan ExperienceTrue Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi... 361153301
Reposted by ヲンJacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’s a Prehistoric Kingdom achievement called Noah’s Park that requires having 2 of every animal species but I’m encouraging completionists to have 14 Megaloceros (kosher animal) and similar numbers of Yi, Archaeopteryx, and Microraptor (probably halakhically birds) as Noah was commanded. 173
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's good reasons to think Tolkien was basically sneaking a Silmaril into the Hobbit which only retroactively had to become something else when the Hobbit and the Silmarillion got joined into one universe by LOTR 110
Reposted by ヲンChris Brockett @chrisbrockett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026TIL I learned a new term: "acoustic bike". Attn: @merriam-webster.com. Let's see whether this usage of "acoustic" sticks and expands into other areas. 022
Reposted by ヲンMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world 214947
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026being temporarily nomadic sucks but gosh I am so happy I don't have a hard date I have to leave this country by 021
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026could not even get into a manga cafe this evening because you had to register a membership and I had no address to register 010
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026(the alternative was travelers' luggage storage, which would have been >5000円 a day) 000
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026in related news I got a short term storage unit after hours of frustration, getting a temporary SIM card just to have a number, and having two kind storage facility employee ladies take pity on me and let me use a friend's address half the country away 100
ヲン @wonn-sann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don't think I realised how many things require a phone number and address until I moved to a different country and suddenly didn't have those things 110
Reposted by ヲンKatuwestākos Göransson @seadogdriftwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A computer/online game in Hittite? Where you *learn* introductory Hittite? And with advanced options to read it in Cuneiform?! It is real. And it is free. @kaimonster.bsky.social, you've surpassed Suppiluliuma. You deserve all the laudation of a Labarna. May Istanu shine blessings upon you. 12411
Reposted by ヲン(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It’s underrated how many of the cardinal achievements of modernity are things that allow for you to interact with people you don’t personally trust. “Contracts are enforceable” and “my safety doesn’t depend on someone being willing to avenge me” really changes the ways you can live. 7788141
