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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've heard fun nonsense raps in German ("Barbaras Rhabarberbar") and Spanish ("Dónde está la biblioteca"), would love to hear if Māori ( #TeReo ) and Hawaiian have those too! Oh, add a #Gaeilge one too. #langsky
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Kim Tairi (ia/she/her) Nā te mea he Māori ahau ia rā ia rā @kimtairi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The town where every week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/... #tereo
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The town where every week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori
In a new five-part bilingual podcast for RNZ, Eugene Bingham, Adam Dudding and James Dansey find themselves surrounded by te reo Māori.
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phxcrt.bsky.social @phxcrt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's #InternationalRaccoonAppreciationDay! Let's look at some words from raccoons Raccoons being from the Americas, many indigenous American language words for "raccoon" are hard to break down, whereas most Afro-Eurasian words for "raccoon" are fairly recent borrowings, calques, or compounds.
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Title: A sample of words for "Raccoon" in 120 languages

22 from Powhatan "scratcher, fidgeter"
raccoon, ρακούν, lakuna, रैकून, ракун, راکون, ᐊᘓᑯᓐ, racŵn, etc.

4: from Nahuatl "hand" +?
mapach, mapache, mapate, mapatse

2: based on "wash"
mýval

21: "washing bear" (Linnaean)
wasbeer, ջրարջ, vaskebjørn, pesukaru, Waschbär, orsetto lavatore, 浣熊, mathan-nighe, oso lavador, etc.

3: based on "bear"
דְּבִיבוֹן, meškėnas, gấu mèo

11: From French “genet”
yenot, ено́т, ენოტი, жанат, jenots, יענאט, etc.

13: Word for some other animal
хас, raton, 미국너구리, ໝີລ້າງນ້ຳ, atí·ron, tábąąh mąʼii, zorra manglera

6: based on “fur”
supi, Schupp, szop, שאָפּ, etc.

37: Unknown etymology (raccoon native range)
jaguachini, ᎬᎵ, matšėškōme, shawi, ejmech, wotko, mikká, eeθepana, wičhá, suksuk, é·span, ᐁᐦᓯᐸᓐ, icat, tulį, etc.

1: Unknown etymology (outside range)
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
colores autumnales
green foliage with some brilliant red leavesformerly green foliage now with brilliant red leavesgreen foliage with some brilliant red leaves
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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Palestinians living in tents in Gaza urgently need tarps for the coming winter. Please donate to the Gaza Support Network to purchase tarps and help families in Gaza stay warm and dry. chuffed.org/project/tarp...
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Urgent: In Gaza Now - Tarps Are Everything
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that's kind of cool
The Lorem ipsum text is derived from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cice p's De finibus bonorum et malorum. I61[7] The physical source may have been the 1914 Loeb Classical Library edition of De finibus, where the Latin text, presented on the left-hand (even) pages, breaks off on page 34 with "Neque porro quisquam est qui do-" and continues on page 36 with "orem ipsum ...."[1] The Lorem ipsum text continues with excerpts that appear to
generally match the layouts of pages 56, 70, and 118, 8) suggesting that the layout of the Loeb book was the source of the dummy text seen today.
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apocalypsemixtape.bsky.social @apocalypsemixtape.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Blood on the Black Desert: Coming Late to Chief of War and Finding a Hawaiʻi I Barely Knew I came to Chief of War almost a year late and finished all nine episodes in three days. What stayed with me was not only the violence or scale, but the Hawaiian history, language, material culture and…
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Blood on the Black Desert: Coming Late to Chief of War and Finding a Hawaiʻi I Barely Knew
I came to Chief of War almost a year late and finished all nine episodes in three days. What stayed with me was not only the violence or scale, but the Hawaiian history, language, material culture and political contradictions the series made me curious enough to keep reading about afterwards.
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Among closely related varieties, today’s “areal spread” is tomorrow’s language-shift. :)
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not exactly a surprising scenario. Bordering languages usually are related. So, more often than not, such linguistic “fratricide” go unnoticed even by native-speakers, as it only requires minor, but progressively substantial, changes in accent or lexical choice instead of sudden total shift.
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
... have driven to extinction their closest relatives, which are fragmentarily known, namely, para-Romance (i.e., non-Latin Italic) and para-Mongolic (best attested Khitan) languages.
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The spread & subsequent diversification of Latin under the Roman empire is very similar to that of Mongol under the Mongolian empire. And there are no doubt other similar cases around the world (Tibetan & Arabic come to mind). One major parallel between Latin & Mongol, though, is that they both ...
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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Aotearoans should know about 1960s Malaysia having Malay-language teachers so radical they brought literal coffins in protests of English still being a main medium of education fresh after independence: 📖 cilisos.my/protesters-b...
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Protesters burned a cutout of Tunku & carried a coffin to his house. What upset them?
*This article was originally written in BM. Click here to read it on SOSCILI. We tend to think of the first PM of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, as well-loved and respected by the rakyat. After all, he...
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RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Māori words in curriculum shouldn't be controversial, principals say
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Māori words in curriculum shouldn't be controversial, principals say
Principals and a Māori language advocate are angry and disappointed by the Education Ministry's treatment of te reo Māori and the secrecy that has surrounded it.
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 27/09/2026
I like that the Irish for 'tonight' is related to English's word, but not so with the Irish for 'night' – while the former (anocht) maintains the common Indo-European root for 'night', the latter (oíche) is of unknown origin beyond Old Irish.
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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is it just me, or I've been noticing metathesis in YouTube vids of (esp. American) English speakers pronouncing 习近平 Xí Jìnpíng from شي جين ڤيڠ "shee gin ping" into جي شين ڤيڠ "gee sheen ping"? 🤔 [For reference: Malaysian Mandarin sounds Pinyin X as a س] #langsky
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lots of Semitic languages do repetitious quadriliteral roots to create words that are onomatopoeic. Think Arabic zilzāl for earthquake, or Hebrew rišruš for the sound of swishing or murmuring. Then there's chariots, cycles, or circuits in Ge'ez, which are mank^warāk^wər.
the word for chariots in a Ge'ez manuscript
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The best introduction to etymology and historical linguistics I've ever had the pleasure to read. Reading it from A to Z will be worth every minute. 😊
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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
me, a guy who knows Latin, in 1913 walking into the HQ of the company that just named itself and its flagship product "Formica" because it is designed to be a substitute "for mica"
derek zoolander saying what is this a center for ants
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.
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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad was the only Malay let alone Malaysian linguist bestowed w/ the "Pendeta" title. The local name for Thailand's Royal Society is directly "The Raja's Pandit Assembly". Such was Sanskrit, þe Latin of SE Asia... (or the 1st, in case of þe Malayosphere)
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/09/2026
‘Pundit’ comes from the Hindi word ‘paṇḍit,’ a term of respect for a wise person. Its ultimate source is the Sanskrit word ‘paṇḍita,’ meaning “learned.” It now usually means…something different.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
they are upon us
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Chloe Allred @chloeallred.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Purple mountains and golden hills in Joshua Tree. Mini gouache painting for lovers of the Mojave desert. I’m getting ready for the Hwy 62 Art Tours! Stop 139 for the first and second weekends in October. Subscribe to my newsletter for updates. ✨ open.substack.com/pub/chloeall... #gouache#desertart
Gouache painting of a scene in Joshua tree
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Chloe Allred @chloeallred.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Goat and butterflies by the breadfruit tree, gouache on watercolor paper. We have just a few more days on our Hawaii trip, I’m hoping to get a few more paintings done! #gouache #art #painting #hawaiiart
Gouache painting of a goat near lava rocks with a green breadfruit tree. Small yellow butterflies are around the tree.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
all canadian packaging should be bilingual: inuktitut and cree
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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Back at the #Ol'TarredRoost: Someone suggests a striking Malay neologism encompassing urban #rail transport not directly HC-powered off knowledge of #Sanskrit loan 'dirgahayu' (< दिर्घायु dirghāyu)... [for context: Malay term for trains in general is "kereta api" harking back to steam locomotives]
Pengguna Zahirulnukman menulis di Twitter pada 3 Januari:
“Sistem pengangkutan rel macam MRT, LRT, Monorel tu masih dikira kereta api atau ada istilah lain ya dalam bahasa Melayu?”

SEsbok pula menjawab:
”Kalau Malaysia lebih merèka-cipta dan redha-Sanskrit, kita boleh ada 'dirgarata' (kereta panjang) untuk ganti 'kereta api' yang sudah tidak tepat sebab ada unsur 'api' dekat situ, kita masih guna sebab mempersamakan bentuk 'kereta api' dengan 'MRT, LRT, Subway [dan sebagainya].'”
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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文 @kebuhcah.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
me trying to remember the Swahili word 𝑚𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑖 ("pot"): haha wouldn't it be funny if it was related to Chinese 桶? but wait it actually is
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sometimes, borrowing a word can save it from extinction. French ‘orgueil’ (pride) was borrowed from Germanic *uʀgōlī, which went extinct in all Germanic languages. *Haifstiz (vehemence) didn’t survive in West Germanic, but French gave us its borrowing ‘haste’. Zoom in to learn all about them:
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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I'd anglicize Al-Jāḥiẓ الجَاحِظ as "The Googly", TBH
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 05/09/2026
More on al-Jahiz, arguably the best shitposter of his age: newlinesmag.com/essays/how-a...
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How a Satirist Captured the Maladies of the Islamic Golden Age
In ninth-century Iraq, the iconoclast al-Jahiz skewered the intellectual pretensions of powerful men working for the Abbasid palace
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is possibly the oldest surviving work by the 9th-century polymath, Abu Uthman al-Jahiz. It's a copy of his satirical essay "On Squaring and Circling," written in a gorgeous (probably North African) Arabic hand. Al-Jahiz (lit. 'the bug-eyed one') was renowned for his unique prose and sharp wit.
Badly torn fragment of yellowish-brown parchment featuring about 20 lines (divided into 2 paragraphs) of highly executed Arabic calligraphy in brown ink. Some portions of text are lost to tears, rubbing, and holes in the parchment. The fragment sits on a blue background next to a yellow label that reads: T-S Ar.38.75 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AR-00038-00075/1)
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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 20/08/2026
RIP Reddit. It was fun. No, I'm not gonna make an account, the old reddit layout was the only layout I liked using because it was fast and I could use reddit enhancement suite to see all the content really quickly, now it's gated by login.
you need to login now to use old.reddit.com, the old reddit layout
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When you say ‘famly’, you’re performing syncope: deleting an unstressed vowel from the interior of the word, losing an entire syllable. The Romans did this too. They turned ‘viridis’ (green) into ‘virdis’. It’s this syncopated form that birthed ‘verde’ in the Romance languages. Zoom in for more:
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Epic handshake meme
Arm 1: Keir Starmer
Arm 2: Conor McGregor 
Clasped hands: Publicly embarrassed by Kneecap at the end of their career
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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What a cool lady. Too many good quotes to choose one. How learning te reo Māori in her 70's transformed one Pākehā grandmother's view of Aotearoa
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How learning te reo Māori in her 70's transformed one Pākehā grandmother's view of Aotearoa
"Open your heart."
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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If you want more Greek myth, try this list of Greek myth retellings by Greek authors-- who often get depriorirized writing their own history. I didn't write it so grain of salt, but the books look really fun! linguistmag.com/greek-myth-r...
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9 Greek Myth Retellings by Greek Authors You Can’t Miss – The Linguist Magazine
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Arabic Proverbs @arabicproverbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If someone passes by without greeting you, you can say: "He went past us like a duck passing a sailor." 🦆 yamurru ʿalaynā kamā yamurru al-baṭṭu ʿalā al-mallāḥ
وَإِذَا مَرَّ الرَّجُلُ وَلَمْ يُسَلِّمْ، قُلْتَ:
٩٩٨ - يَمُرُّ عَلَيْنَا كَمَا يَمُرُّ الْبَطُّ عَلَى الْمَلَّاحِ.
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Occasionally Spooky Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It won’t be too big of a surprise that ‘of’ and ‘off’ come from the same Old English word. However, if we go further back in time, it turns out they’re part of a huge word family that includes ‘after’, ‘ebb’, German ‘von’, ‘aber’, and Ancient Greek ‘apó’. Click my new graphic to learn more:
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This Uyghur scholar says that as the Chinese government tries to destroy Uyghur culture in their homeland, the Uyghur people have to shift to a diasporic model of keeping culture alive - and cites Jewish history as a model for how to do this.
"But our strong sense of self has complicated Beijing’s efforts to integrate us into the Chinese nation. Its answer is to extinguish what it means to be Uyghur. A Financial Times investigation published in May documented Beijing’s systematic dismantlement of the mechanisms through which Uyghur identity is passed down. This includes taking Uyghur children from their families and sending them to boarding schools where they are forbidden from speaking their mother tongue, and eradicating Uyghur-language publishing and literature.

Uyghurs in the diaspora, scattered mostly across the United States, Europe and Central Asia, have responded. Families have launched volunteer-run Uyghur-language schools for our children. Cultural associations keep alive traditions like the meshrep — our vibrant communal gatherings featuring food, song, dance and moral education. Others are assembling online repositories of Uyghur literature, historical documents, photographs and recordings before they disappear.

We are not the first people to stand on this precipice. Diaspora Jews helped preserve Jewish identity for centuries; exiled Tibetans are struggling to do the same, as have many other peoples throughout history."
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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
No way "handicap" came from a obsolete game! 🤯 I long presumed "cap" would have referred to the stump made to an arm after it's amputated and cauterized (thus I thought "hand capped" → "handicapped" then prolly reanalyzed = "handicap" + -ed)...
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 30/06/2026
The word 'wilderness' visibly comprises the elements 'wild' and '-ness', but where does its middle ER come from? A third ingredient has gone into the word, namely Old English dēor 'animal' (the source of today's narrower term 'deer'), making 'wilderness' literally 'wild-animal-ness'.
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Yamin | يمين | 雅明 @yaminlawut.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Abrahamic socialism in America, LET'S GOOOOOOO
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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 02/07/2026
this hypercorrection is so funny bc it's in the wrong direction. the mandarin /tɕ/ sound (spelled <j> in pinyin) is pronounced by widening your mouth and flattening your lips. going the other direction by rounding your lips gives you the french-sounding /ʒ/
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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 02/07/2026
set an american news anchor loose on the word "beijing" and suddenly their mouth turns french when they hit the letter "j" in "beijing"
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
... feminine. The same applies to Arabic female names in final *-at > -aḧ (Fātˁimaḧ, Ḫadīǧaḧ, ʿĀʾišaḧ, etc.) which are borrowed with -ā (F/Pʰātimā, X/Kʰadīǰā, Āīšā, etc.). The handful of “native” names that exist, mostly used informally, actually do have -ā in male names, e.g., Kānhā.
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Sāmapriyavasuḣ @avzaagzonunaada.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
So, in the modern languages, -ā is the masculine ending, not feminine! E.g., lamb-ā laṛk-ā ‘tall boy’ lamb-ī laṛk-ī ‘tall girl’ Yet HU, Punjabi and Marathi speakers usually name their kids in Sanskrit, and Arabic for Muslims, not in their own languages. So, in names -ā is still perceived as ...
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