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@butchseiya im glad you pointed this out because the vague descriptions i heard about it were making me not want to read it lol. but now i probably will

Heads up to everybody who might be interested in the book, the book is about colonization, not romance

@ruesdaya @renereads its storygraph. dont use it myself but i wish there was a way to do the same with goodreads

@renereads wait how did you do that

since everyone’s sharing their top genres

@yuzu_4ever enjoying urself and havin some fun ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ )

hey so quick question what makes a human life worth living when it isn't measured by what it produces?

@mandylu become immortal

life is limited but knowledge to learn is unlimited. what to do?

@SubodhThallada damn, didnt know they wanted us so badly

@complingcowboy nah, sony

i get it bro, i'm not from waterloo mb

@souljagoyteller divine timing to see this when i just finished reading 'the road to mecca.' he was an interesting guy, lived a very accomplished life

One of Pakistan’s founders was a Ukrainian Jew who converted to Islam at age 26 and changed his name from Leopold Weiss to Muhammad Asad. He also wrote one of the 20th century’s most influential Quran translations

@Cayden_Cline not korean but i would assume it's usually perceived closer to ㄷ than ㄸ. korean stops aren’t really distinguished by voicing the same way so english /d/ tends to map to the lenis rather than the tense segment

Do Koreans perceive the English sound /d/ as ㄷ or ㄸ?

@elladorn_ wow, the representation of sociology/history/political writing is so cool to see. and feels very globally balanced compared to goodreads

If anyone else is interested in literary polls - these are the top 100 highest-rated books on Douban Books (basically Chinese Goodreads) w/ number of ratings. I have translated some titles, indicated w ?. All books pretty much sit within a point of each other on a 10-point scale

@theshadowofbong i saw this on church street! was in a hurry but I really wanted to call him just to see what's up 😭

Hilarious scam on the streets of Toronto.

@_neilarmstrong @SanSip i was surprised to see mansfield park at 56 and then wouldnt you know it, three more jane austens taking up spots in the top 20. and 5 virginia woolfs?

@SanSip Jane Eyre 12 places ahead of Wuthering Heights? Nope.

In one of those purposeless but entertaining exercises, the Guardian polled more than 170 novelists, critics, and academics to come up with a list of the best 100 novels of all time. Here's Salman Rushdie's top 10.

such a weird list. you can tell they tried to be diverse but for a "top english books of all time" list that inexplicably includes translations, it still ends up being tragically west-centric

@gwoyeuromatzyh sure but kana emerged more from phonographic reuse and cursive standardization of kanji than from stenographic shorthand proper

@complingcowboy if only there were a country perhaps very closely related to china where this exact thing happened

terrifying. at what point does shorthand cease to be abbreviation and become a parallel orthography

Eulogikon is a new Ancient Greek web library currently under construction that has more obscure works in its catalog than most of the competition. You can find various scholia there and things like the fragments of the Phoenician History by Philon of Byblos. eulogikon.org

New blog post! Wrote about how SFT, RL, OPD relate to generalization and catastrophic forgetting :)

Tying economic opportunity to dominant languages is part of the mechanism for assimilating minority languages. When people can't find work using their mother tongue, they often transmit the dominant languagae to their kids, so they'll have better job prospects.

@36_chambuhz mango languages is awesome! they have so many languages i've never seen on any other app, and totally free with a partnered library card

Mango languages has Persian, and a better learning scheme for anyone actually interested in progress too

@n30n5223434 you can see the same in words like 心理, 安心, 心得る. even latin had similar ideas: cordatus (wisdom) and recordari (to remember), from cor (heart)

I didn't understand why 心掛ける (bear in mind) used the kanji 心 (heart) at first, but then it occurred to me that in many cultures, the heart was thought to have the same function as the brain.

@yitzgood @langfocus i'd be surprised if most of them had even heard of the mishnah. people who claim things like that seem to have zero knowledge of language history or history in general

@langfocus I always ask the "fake language" people how the Hebrew of the Mishnah fits into the picture. It usually never occurred to them that there was such a thing or a whole library of works in very similar Hebrew.

"Is Modern Hebrew Totally Different from Biblical Hebrew?" These days I see a lot of comments online about Modern Hebrew being a FAKE language, that it's NOT Hebrew, that it's a constructed language based on Arabic and Yiddish, and so on. Of course there's often a political intention behind such statements. But there IS something different about Modern Hebrew: the fact that it's the result of a LANGUAGE REVIVAL. Some people try to spin that to mean that Modern Hebrew is fake Hebrew, but it's clear to me that Modern Hebrew is MUCH more similar to Biblical Hebrew than other modern languages are to their ancient antecedents over a similar time frame. This is in large part because of the revival. And the revival was possible because of extensive body of Hebrew literature that never stopped being produced. Of course there are differences though. In my new video that's premiering today, I dive in and look at the similarities and the differences. The link to the premiere in the first comment.