А. Z. Fоrеmаn: Seriouѕ Рhіlоlоgy, Ѕіlly Веhаvіоr
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А. Z. Fоrеmаn: Seriouѕ Рhіlоlоgy, Ѕіlly Веhаvіоr
@azforeman
Grad student. Linguist. Russian-American. Medievalist. Poet. Author. Translator. Phonological cosplayer. 1st Amendment stan. Poems posted here may self-delete.
France when you speak French: Please don't. France when you speak English: We speak French here.
I told my mom I wasn't attracted to a guy who liked me and she told me to give him a chance. I said guys don't give girls they're not attracted to a chance so why should I do it? Silence at the dinner table
Some English speakers pronounce Gödel's name as [gɹ̩dl̩], presumably because they find their own [ɹ] a good approximation for the ø vowel. Interestingly, the reverse (almost) happens too: Turkish has borrowed English "flirt" as [flœrt].
Happy Fourth Here's my reading of the American Declaration of Independence in a reconstruction of late 18th century English pronunciation, based largely on Benjamin Franklin's own phonetic notes and transcriptions.
On the complaint that Nolan and Wilson's Odysseys sound "too modern": Everybody is going to have their own preferences, and there's no accounting for taste, but one of Emily Wilson's best points about modern expectations of ancient stories is that we want all of antiquity to sound like Shakespeare, but the Odyssey was composed ~3,000 years ago, while Hamlet is just 400 years old. We are much, much, much closer to Shakespeare than Shakespeare was to Homer.
This stuff is so depressing to me. Women aren’t born knowing where the tomatoes are. I’m sick of cutesy commentary about male incompetence.
aside from the fact that the coming generation is largely illiterate, one interesting angle here is that harvard (along with the rest of the top schools, presumably) has decided being able to read is no longer a necessary qualification for admission. wonder when that happened
ok ?
“Bernard Bailyn called it conservative revolution and Gordon Wood described it as a radical one at the same time. Conservative, because they were preserving an inheritance, not inventing a utopia. Radical, because of what it unleashed. Compare us to the French. Theirs came a decade later and it was everything ours was not — new, violent, devouring its own. Robespierre lost his head to the very revolution he started. They wanted to remake man himself; they even tried to re-cut the calendar and the clock. The metric system is the last surviving scrap of that madness. We didn’t want to remake man. We wanted liberty. And when George Washington won, he walked away from power. King George said if he did that, he’d be the greatest man in the world. He did it. The whole world marveled, from Europe clear into Asia — a man who held all the power and gave it back.” ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-greatnes…
