Robert Tegethoff

This is the strangers' case / and this your mountainish inhumanity

Spruch des Tages: Holthausen war der schlechtere Köbler.

Almost as good as my rule of thumb: has anyone you know ever written anything in it you want to cite? If not, then it’s not the Journal for you.

#OTD 184 years ago, Hugo Schuchardt (1842–1927) was born 🎉 He was a specialist in Romance historical linguistics, an expert on Basque, and a pioneer of creole studies, he was a leading critic of Neogrammarian ideas and a prominent advocate of the wave model.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

A London Underground advertisement for testosterone for men

Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???

That is usually how it is. Having student status can get you various random discounts (museum tickets and such, perhaps also cheaper meals at the university cafeteria), but of course you will need to pay dues.

Sure, languages of the Caucasus and Coptic have massive consonant clusters, but how about one of my favorite Swedish words – "västkustskts" ("belonging to something inanimate belonging to the West Coast")?

Ah! Ich hab da nicht mehr weitergesucht. Bei Frings steht es nicht und der vertritt ja auch eher die Gegenposition, jedenfalls im Spätwerk. Außer Frings bin ich echt überhaupt nicht belesen in der Germanistik und ich kannte das Zitat vorher auch nicht :/

hey

🔲 jude
🔲 ho let's go
🔲 nonny nonny no
✔️ now now hey now now sing this corrosion to me

#OTD 306 years ago, Ann Fisher (1719–1778) was born 🥳 She was an entrepreneur, a school director, and an author of several works on language. Her "A New Grammar", printed in 1750, was the first grammar book of contemporary English written by a woman.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

#OTD 100 years ago, Joseph R. Applegate (1925–2003) was born 🎉 He was, among other things, a specialist in Tashelhit, a Berber language spoken in Morocco, as well as an expert in machine translation. In 1955, Applegate became the first Black faculty member at MIT.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

#OTD 213 years ago, Matthias Castrén (1813–1852) was born 🥳 He undertook several journeys through Lapland, Karelia, and Siberia, and became an expert in the Finnic, Ugric, and Samoyedic languages. In 1841, he also translated the Finnish epic poem Kalevala into Swedish.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Ich bin fleißig am Stöbern, aber noch hab ich die etwaige Stelle nicht gefunden. Ich spüre aber weiter. Sobald ich fertiggescannt hab, kann ich auch mal per OCR suchen ^_^

My count is up to a majestic two.

Yeah, sex is great and all, but have you ever found a typo in a Robert Caro book?

Ein Buch über Wassermühlen.

Dies ist ein sogenanntes „Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis“.
☝🏻🧐

Prof. Dr. Irina Scherbakowa und der Leiter des Imre-Kertesz-Kollegs, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Puttkamer. Foto: Stadt Jena

Jenas Oberbürgermeister Dr. Thomas Nietzsche und Prof. Dr. Irina Scherbakowa. Foto: Stadt Jena

Das Goldene Buch der Stadt Jena mit dem Eintrag von Prof. Dr. Irina Scherbakowa. Foto: Stadt Jena

Yesterday, 17 November, Russian Germanist, cultural scientist and human rights activist Prof. Dr Irina Scherbakowa was a guest at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg at #UniJena, where she read from her new book. Afterwards, she signed the Golden Book of the City of Jena in presence of Mayor Dr Thomas Nitzsche.

Ich hab tatsächlich grad so ein kleines Frings-Scanprojekt am Laufen und hab die Bücher aufm Schreibtisch (und teilweise gescannt). Ich kann morgen mal reinspinksen, ob ich den Locus finde 👀😸

In Finnish, there is a whole noun class, the -e declension, which triggers doubling of the first consonant in the next word (sade-l-lakkaa ’the rain ceases). Also the imperatives do (puhu-s-suomea ’speak Finnish), as many small words as well.

maslov'sche beduerfnispyramide update

maslov'sche beduerfnispyramide update

#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.

#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

Posting horny on main 👀 #dienlich

This recalls the anecdote of the late Heiner Eichner having a conversation with a homeless guy called Pokorny during a fire drill...

Amazing! 🤩 This word reminds me of the Japanese tankōbon, but while the concept is similar (tankōbon are pocket-sized manga), I guess only the -bon element can be linguistically related. Shared loanwords from Chinese, I'd assume ^_^

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

#A_NewHope ✊

Extras eyes on this have accrued some corrections
‪@dwdqdh.bsky.social corrected my poor grasp of Old Slavic
@gro-tsen.bsky.social caught some typos in my futhark that I really should have noticed

I also switched the Glagolitic and Orkhon from Noto to Profesor García's ALPHABETUM Unicode

Ich bin demnächst 34 und promoviert und bunte Nudeln mit selbstgemachter Soße machen mich immer noch so arge glücklich 🥹

Dutch "loeren" 'to lurk' is cognate to German "lauern" 'to lurk' and English "lour".
In Cologne you will still hear "luur ens" 'have a look'
#LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

Flash card from an app. It reads "sma`ni!", basically unchanged from Proto-Semitic*smaʕ-nī 'listen to me'

Linguists: nooo you can't just keep an expression unchanged for 5500 years 😭
Levantine Arabic speakers: