@cesauncus

/ɕɐɕɑːŋkɐh/, /kesaʊŋkʊs/ | Interested in Indo-Aryan, Romanic & Germanic linguistics, Typography, Cartography & Goan History | 🎓 BU'25 @bualumni

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Joined September 2023
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beau-père 👨 beau "handsome, good, pleasant" père "father"
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Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𑖫𑖫𑖯𑖒𑖿𑖎𑖾 ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
chase@_chase_____Oct 23
my bf is from boston and occasionally he’ll do something that feels vaguely british. he refers to his dresser as his “bureau” and it’s like ok sherlock holmes ?? what do u keep in there? cold cases from the 1800s? ur velvet smoking jacket? an emerald tie-pin from queen victoria?
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Found this cool map of #Albanian dialects on Reddit
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GBH Archives@GBHArchives14h
Kenmore Square, Boston seen in 1980.
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I love how traditional #Sanskrit grammar has a reverse order of grammatical persons compared to in modern linguistics. ⊛ pratʰama puruṣa "foremost person" = 3rd person ⊛ madʰyama puruṣa "middle person" = 2nd person ⊛ uttama puruṣa "principal person" = 1st person.
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Some reflexes of Latin multus "much, abundant, a lot" (m.), in modern Romanic languages.
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Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𑖫𑖫𑖯𑖒𑖿𑖎𑖾 ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
Emily - SF ✈️ Nov 7-21@the_aiju20h
mildly fascinated how many language use the word 'fruit' to mean 'result'. latin fructus, english fruit (fruit of his labour etc), german frucht, sanskrit phala, chinese & japanese 果, ... (tbf only the latin and sanskrit ones seem to be independent here?)
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Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𑖫𑖫𑖯𑖒𑖿𑖎𑖾 ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
Duolingo
@duolingoOct 23
i heard they’re selling me today?
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I redesigned the Indian passport cover with #Sanskrit as the first language, a second language of the holder’s choice from the 22 scheduled languages (#Konkani here) and English for international identification. Which color do you prefer? Navy blue or maroon?
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Luke Nicholson@ImproveAccentOct 23
How do you pronounce the first syllable of "Dubai" in English: (1) /duː/ "doo", (2) /djuː/ "dyoo", (3) /ʤuː/ "joo", (4) something else?
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German 🇩🇪🇦🇹 spelling Büro /byˈʁoː/ "office" is objectively better than French 🇫🇷 bureau /by.ʁo/ "office"!
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The Roman Empire would be would be Rōmaka Sāmrāj́yam in Sanskrit. sāmrāj́yam < PIE *som-h₃rḗǵs-yom If the modern Indo-Aryan languages inherited the word sāmrāj́yam, it would be something like *sāmbāj or *sā̃bāj or *sāmāj coming via a Prakrit form *saṁbajjam.
Grǣġhama
@grahamscheperOct 21
The Roman Empire in Old English was ‘sē Rōmānisca Cāserdōm’ - that would have become ‘*the Roomonish Cozerdom’ in Modern English. Sometimes I am actually grateful for the Norman conquest.
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¶ To be more consistent, the Prakrit form should be *saṁbajjaṁ.
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iubire 🫶🏼
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Asians also believe in this concept of getting sick due to wet hair. It’s a pan old-world thing.
Luol Deng Xiaoping@JungAristotleOct 22
Europeans be like I got sick because my hair was wet
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Adobe Caslon Pro, the official typeface of The New Yorker, is absolutely gorgeous. Its italics exude such elegance! I’m absolutely enamoured with it!
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Van Dijck Monotype is quite an elegant old-style #serif typeface!
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Some reflexes of Latin cunīculus "rabbit" (m.) 🐇🐇, in modern Romance languages.
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Galician coello and Portuguese coelho used to have a nasal on the o i.e. cõelho (hopping of the n to the previous vowel) in Old Galego-Portuguese in the Middle Ages that dropped off in the modern languages.
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Diacritics and Special Characters used in European Languages that use the Latin Script
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Missed ó in Polish
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