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@greg_j_davis I'm not sure you can explain away bad dreams that easily, Greg...

@m___ansar Congratulations, Mariam!

@clamorousvoice I can't be the first or even the twentieth person to recommend Romeo and Juliet in Palestine by @tomsperlinger ... but just in case, I thought that was great when I read it.

My periodic request to be in touch with teachers/lecturers who've ever used, wanted to use (or had suggested) Romeo and Juliet as a text for teaching "citizenship", social values, or similar. OR people who've taught it in a politically difficult situation. Grateful for RTs.

@FlorenceHazrat I take my cue (voting YES) from chess notation, where (I think) ?! means it's a dubious move, whereas !? means it could be a good move but it may be very flawed (or looks flawed). I wonder if computer analysis means that these are less common than they used to be.

Difference or no difference: ?! or !?

New: Professorship @englishunicam, the 'Grace 2' Chair @Cambridge_Uni No specified research area, the application deadline: 15th December. Come and work with us! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/32052/m

This does a much better job of announcing our Professorial job than my rushed blank Retweet earlier today. What Priya says is all true!

There have been a couple of new posts on my blog since I last mentioned it: english.cam.ac.uk/research/cogbl… The most recent one looks at research into why most people are not constantly flooded with involuntary thoughts about the past and the future.

@jntod Also there are some interesting angles in a special issue of Cambridge Quarterly (academic.oup.com/camqtly/issue/…) on 'Cambridge English and China'. That started with a conference -- you were there for the closing reading by J.H. Prynne, I think.

@jntod The MacCabe story isn't the only story, but I was interested to read about it in sociological terms: Marcus Morgan and Patrick Baert, Conflict in the Academy: A Study in the Sociology of Intellectuals.

Critical reading on the history of 'Cambridge English'...?

Retweeting someone Tweeting what I should have Tweeted... If I am blogging again (which I am, tentatively for now) then I should be back on Twitter more. Thanks, Simon! english.cam.ac.uk/research/cogbl… as he says.

Brilliant to hear Kasia Boddy @englishunicam wins the postgrad research supervisor student led teaching award @yourcambridgesu

@eileen__sperry Eileen, I'm so sorry to hear this. All best wishes from me.

Along with 40 of my colleagues, my position at Saint Rose has been eliminated. The College is ending sixteen majors, six graduate programs, and numerous certificate programs. I am grieving deeply this week, both for us and our students.

@V21collective There are excellent essays on 'we' in poetry in academic.oup.com/camqtly/issue/…, by @eileen__sperry and @cspaide (also one by me), and a response from Bonnie Costello, whose 'The Plural of Us' has rightly been mentioned already.

@sjjackson32 @earlymodernjohn Looks like Shakespeare in his poems rhymes 'are' with care, compare, prepare, rare, snare, and unaware... According to the rhymes appendix of Shrank & Lyne 2017, you want Cercignani p. 104, Kökeritz p. 180, for how to say 'are' with the right piratical styling.

@WhatLitKnows @earlymodernjohn Yes--that's the feedback loop I was stuck in. 'SPARE/PARE/ARE' feels awkward as an echo (though that may just be modern pronunciation) but then 'FREND/REND/END' also has some difficulty orthographically (though again, mitigated in early modern spelling)

Do any early modernists on here have good guides to #earlymodern pronunciation? Interested in this awkward rhyme from Mr Herbert: When thou the greater judgments SPARE And with thy knife but prune and PARE Ev'n fruitful trees more fruitful ARE @earlymodernjohn perhaps?

@OliveFSmith Early months: Riverside Shakespeare plus World Atlas of Wine. (I love maps more than wine, to be honest.) More recently: a shoebox.

A bibliography of the chunky books you rested your computer on for meetings/chats in 2020. Mine are Vols 1&2 of the Oxford Shakespeare critical reference edition. What are yours?

@greg_j_davis @OliveFSmith Not sure that's true, Greg. But I think @TaraLLyons and her Anteloquy blog may have good things to offer, if you haven't found those already.

Can you point me in the directions of recent experiments/work with cues and part-scripts in Shakespeare performance?

@NoreenMasud I like looking inland from dunes on the North Norfolk coast, and seeing the first row of houses at the other side of the marsh. It makes me think of the (presumably long) process of trial and error that reassured them they had found a spot where their stuff wouldn't get wet.

I mean what I say here: I want your stories of flat landscapes. A holiday in Lincolnshire – a chance encounter in the fens – a feeling you had once on the Somerset Levels. Tweet, email or DM me: small and trivial stories very (even particularly) welcome.

@maguiregeoff Jumanji?

Bonus points for this 90s film classic.

Ten points to the first one to guess who's pictured in this masterpiece from @DrEmmaCahill...

@clairiew @CUBotanicGarden I saw a badger crossing Grange Road last week, two nights in a row!