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One thing I do like about the German language is that my title (Geisteswissenschaftler), while usually loosely translated as “humanist,” could also be rendered as “ghost scientist”
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Alex Zawacki
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Alex Zawacki
@AChillGhost
Lecturer @ the University of Göttingen | Medievalist - hermeneutics, religion, ghosts, the supernatural | Catholic
Germany Katılım Mayıs 2009
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a millennial critiquing the worldbuilding of a children’s book, forever
Gay Interrupted@TwinkTheory
How did Harry potters parents have all that cash for his trust fund? They died at 21 and the only jobs in the wizarding world are civil servant, barmaid, teacher or shop owner. Or is it just like magic? And if so how are the Weasleys poor like how far does magic go? Are they just bad at magic?
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You will find the Pope's name is Leo my dude.
(plus this uptick is more a statistical artefact of decline rather than any real turning of the corner).
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Which language will you learn this summer?
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊@ChronHib
A regular reminder: books about the Ancient Celtic languages are availabe through the Maynooth University Bookshop (e.g., my book on Ogham at shop.universitybooks.ie/Books/Ogam-Lan…) or (soon again) in the shop of @nmireland).
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@tellmekafka @ufelloff__ @AcStaples I have already adopted “Gefühlswortlosigkeit” into my vocabulary. It’s too late
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@AChillGhost @ufelloff__ @AcStaples It's not. You can call a chair a table but if nobody else does it, it's still a chair.
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Incorrectly pluralizing English words around my German colleagues to keep them on their toes
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Big day today for an insight into this Papacy:
Fulton Sheen’s Beatification announced.
Randazzo to head Legislative Texts.
Pegorraro to head PAL.
Directing Parolin to direct the French bishops to accommodate TLM goers.
Each of these are big. Very big.
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In honor of the Solemnity of the Annunciation, I'm giving away a copy of "Mary, Mother of God's Word Made Flesh" (2 copies if there are many entries)!
To enter, please leave a comment on this post. I'll select a winner randomly the morning of March 27th.
a.co/d/0clTkNzz
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Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct
citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sound…
shayla@callmeMaharani
What is a sound or smell that doesn’t exist anymore, but 30 years ago was so common it was considered background noise?
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@sagathena @uncle_deluge Tertullian’s account of its composition might or might not be true ofc, but the text couldn’t have been (and doesn’t claim to be) written by Thecla herself
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@sagathena @uncle_deluge Some of these are addressed here but it’s worth adding that the Acts of Paul and Thecla are one of the few apocryphal texts whose origin we have some account of, and it was written by a man
Ante D. Luvian@uncle_deluge
Judith and Susanna are in the Bible (and Susanna is explicitly attributed to Daniel), Thecla is part of the larger "Acts of Paul" which continues after her death, the Gospel of James and the Protoevangelium is the same book and is, as the name would imply, attributed to James
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I find this one hard to answer, but some condensed thoughts in this 🧵
Shane Boyce@boycereads
What’s the best sci-fi you’ve ever read not named Dune, Red Rising or Sun Eater?
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But, I also like random, pulpy sci-fi short stories and novels at times. There are also books I liked a lot as a kid (e.g. Bruce Coville) that I've read more times than most other books.
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@jangrewe @WalentekLab @potatoslav No offense but so far your knowledge of airports has proven lacking in one crucial point in which you were very confident so I don’t have a high opinion lg you overall Airport Mastery
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@AChillGhost @WalentekLab @potatoslav And how would that airport worker know she has one, unless you she somehow visibly presented it?
He's not gonna randomly pick people from the queue in the off chance that they might have some EU passport or residency permit. That's not how airports work.
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landed in Frankfurt today and they said due to “new immigration procedures” the border control lines would be very long. got there and they were the longest i’ve ever seen. went to get on line and a worker spotted me, somehow knew i wasn’t a tourist, and pulled me out of the dumbass american line and into the EU line of about 4 people bc i’m a resident god bless.
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@WalentekLab @potatoslav Exactly. Why would they randomly pull someone with a non-EU passport to the passport scanners that ... only read EU passports.
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“Diverted to sub-Saharan Africa” is still only my second favorite DeutscheBahn delay. For the first I was lucky enough to capture the conductor’s announcement in Google Translate because I thought I must be misunderstanding him
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Train from Frankfurt was rerouted due to “objects on the rails” man where are they taking me
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@AChillGhost it is very rare for DB to accidently redirect trains into the gulf of Guinea (happens only 2-3 times a week)
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