The Colossal Memer

My animation of Pucci conducting Hallelujah—with more stuff this time! Stone Ocean is nearly back and I'm very excited. #JoJosBizarreAdventure #jojo #jojo_anime #2danimation #stoneocean #jjba #Pucci #enricopucci #hallelujah #ジョジョ #ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 ＃ストーンオーシャン

@Daoxue_Academy Just putting out another idea in case it's useful, maybe a feature where hovering/tapping a word in language A highlights its translation in language B, a bit like like Reverso Context (I'm not sure if these are accurate)

We are also working on an idea where tapping a character would reveal a literal gloss. This is similar to Ctext’s mouseover feature except not just a general dictionary entry (i.e. all possible meanings), but the *specific* grammar/meaning for the phrase in question.

For others who like to learn this way, the translation in the Four Books App is specifically designed to linearly and literally track the Chinese syntax for precisely this type of study. Legge and Chan both track fairly well, but we tightened it up even further when possible.

@ted_huang That is interesting! His wiki says he met both Francisco Diaz (author kf a Mandarin vocabulary) and Adam Schall von Bell, both from this thread x.com/ted_huang/stat…

@ColossalMemer 羅文藻 Luo Wen-zao (10/18/1617- 2/27/1691) born in 福安 (Fu'an, Fujian) was the first Chinese person to become a Catholic priest and bishop. His life and work are very interesting read. Fu'an today has ~14% Catholic, much higher than China overall ( <1%)

歷代神仙通鑑 compiled by 徐道 (c. 1700) is a Daoist collection of stories of gods & immortals thru the ages It's very interesting that Jesus was included. This may indicate a greater Chinese acceptance for Christianity at this time than what one might assume

@ted_huang This is just a preview & I actually haven't read all of it but I found it interesting because of the multiplicity of views by the government, priests, and common people. Plus, it leans a lot on documentary sources, filling some gaps in the traditional narrative

@ted_huang Possible context: Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars by Eugenio Menegon (2009), showing how Christian communities spread in Ming/Qing Fuan 福安 amidst arrests and public ridicule, with essays on literati, female members, interaction with local religions, etc. blogs.bu.edu/emenegon/files…

@AntarcticSecret @edwardW2 @HistorianZhang Are you really chinesemaxxing if you, as a dominican friar evading ming authorities, dont whip out the x ç and 7 diacritics cobbled from 4 different european languages

@BestPukei @hellothisisivan Back in the fifteen hundreds they used to say shit like "a book for to learn" and "must needs be"

Sorry we don’t have to clarify that what we’re eating is food

@Alesbackupn4 @souljagoyteller he must have tried to test if the one scientist guy from gulliver's travels (1726) was onto something

@souljagoyteller Do you think they still do this

Stalin was just a really weird guy. For fun he would put tomatoes on the seats of the Politburo members and laugh uproariously when he heard the tomatoes squish. When excited he would hop on one leg, and was obsessed with collecting the excrement of visiting foreign leaders

@wrongkontinent @SteppeShaman You mean Dongdan? (this post has been checked by real Great Liao Khitan State patriots: TRUE)

@SteppeShaman I miss the times when Tungusic and Koreanic peoples got along like they did in Balhae

Using high-tech photo editing software (Microsoft Powerpoint) I was able to confirm that the two pieces should join:

A forgotten and neglected history: Queen Elizabeth I sent letter to the Wanli Emperor of China in 1602, seeking trade with China, but these attempts failed as the envoys perished at sea, never reaching the Emperor. The letter was discovered centuries later from a shipwreck and eventually presented to China by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986. The original text of the letter is shown below, in modern English form: Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith to the great, mighty and invincible Emperor of Cathay, greetings. We have received divers and sundry reports both by our own subjects and others, who have visited some parts of Your Majesty’s empire. They have told us of your greatness and your kind usage of strangers, who come to your kingdom with merchandise to trade. This has encouraged us to find a shorter route by sea from us to your country than the usual course that involves encompassing the greatest part of the world. This nearer passage may provide opportunity for trade between the subjects of both our countries and also amity may grow between us, due to the navigation of a closer route. With this in mind, we have many times in the past encouraged some of our pioneering subjects to find this nearer passage through the north. Some of their ships didn’t return again and nothing was ever heard of them, presumably because of frozen seas and intolerable cold. However, we wish to try again and have prepared and set forth two small ships under the direction of our subject, George Waymouth, employed as principal pilot for his knowledge and experience in navigation. We hope your Majesty will look kindly on them and give them encouragement to make this new discovered passage, which hitherto has not been frequented or known as a usual trade route. By this means our countries can exchange commodities for our mutual benefit and as a result, friendship may grow. We decided for this first passage not to burden your Majesty with great quantities of commodities as the ships were venturing on a previously unknown route and would need such necessities as required for their discovery. It may please your Majesty to observe, on the ships, samples available from our country of many diverse materials which we can supply most amply and may it please your Majesty to enquire of the said George Waymouth what may be supplied by the next fleet. In the meantime, we commend Your Majesty to the protection of the Eternal God, who providence guides and follows all kings and kingdoms. From our Royal Palace of Greenwich, the fourth of May anno Domini 1602 and of our reign 44. Elizabeth R

@Megacastle326 @oocdexter Step on the brake (the pedal in the middle) and pull the handbrake up (the lever beside you in the center of the car)

@NoCaparison @sodalitatum @Rationalbot Ah, well, turns out it's a private copy commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rela…

@NoCaparison @sodalitatum @Rationalbot Oh, I see. I assumed it was from a digital library from the Biblioteca Marziana di Venezia or similar. It would be cool to find the rest in case there were unpublished ones digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/biblioteca-mar…

"Was someone else going to translate them for us?" "haha no"

@bigmonkeong Heisenbones cameo

can someone smarter than me explain to me the significance of the highlighted part

Funnily, Source 1 is from ~2004, while Source 2 is from 2014 & the article it's based on explicitly says the weather got better "in opposition to conventional wisdom" (e.g. Source 1), because there is a more fine-grained weather record in the tree rings. Classic thesis-antithesis

@theomachist @romanhelmetguy @JoePostingg Classic geta

@romanhelmetguy @JoePostingg wow I'm also noticing that his son was a monster with an all-consuming void instead of a face

That Roman Helmet guy explicitly saying the best way to understand Roman history is to uncritically read primary sources is a very good bit. Refuse to believe he's a real person.

@uncle_deluge Diplomatic transcription. They might be going semidiplomatic, which needs less technical introduction but is generally not reversible to the manuscript text

"And ſche ſchal beere a ſone: ⁊ þou ſschall clepe his name ihc̄; foꝛ he ſchal make his puple ſaf fro her ſynnes" I demand accurate transcription. We need the Nomina Sacra. We need long s. We need the Tironian "and," we need thorn, and by God do we need r rotunda

I was trying to read Wycliffe Bible to see how well I could understand Middle English and I found the spelling to be kind of bizarre, I wanted to if there was a transcription problem and for some reason they've chosen to render every bog-standard ihc abbreviation as "JHESUS"

@pinchresting there's a pro spain guy on facebook that posts like this

The way Filipino languages used to be spelled is so hilarious thankfully we didn't stick to that HOWEVER,,, it would be amusing if ppl spelled like that sometimes, just for the hell of it. Aco na magsimula

@Alma_under @OOCcommunism "monstrous verminous bug" a close second

@OOCcommunism Its gets real exciting once you read "gelatinous blob" for the umpteenth time

“communists” in the comments not recognizing the first page of Capital I'm fucking dying 😭😭😭