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i have no idea how to structure this post but i wanted to let any language learners following me to know about pronunciator! it's a programme i just found out our local library gives us access to, but i think that you can also register for it on your own. it has a massive number of courses for over 160 languages—even kurdish, which is really hard to find courses on! some other languages they have that i saw just from a quick glance at their languages page are armenian, mexican sign language, hmong, and amharic. i don't have a catchy tagline here, i just think you should consider looking into if you can use it.

#language resources

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Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:

This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.

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A classic table of accidental lexical gaps in English, from Language Log.

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there are serious biosecurity measures you need to be aware of and follow if you want to grow your own food and keep chickens and the Iike and I'm begging you to be aware of how to protect yourself from literal zoonotic abberant brain parasites like raccoon roundworm. (CDC link)

also of note are the less deadly but still gross zoonotic parasites dogs and cats can carry (roundworms and hookworms are the big ones), some fluke species found on vegetation, and things like salmonella and other bacteria in everything from chicken feces/on eggs and the soil/on foods.

like this isn't said to scare people, but homesteading efforts are so popular right now and it is VITAL that people learn basic biosecurity measures to protect themselves and their families.

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so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

#resources

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…Perhaps the most interesting feature of Sicilian is that it lacks a future tense. Instead, the future is expressed by appending a future time expression (eg: tomorrow, next week, next year) to the present.

In this respect, Sicilian shares something with Arabic. In Arabic, (it is said), only God can know the future and so to express the future, they append the term “inshallah” – “if God wills” to the beginning or end of the phrase. So they will say something like “If God wills, on Sunday, I go to the market” (ie not, “I will go…”).

And in Sicilian, it is much the same: Si Diu voli e campàmu dumàni nni vidèmu If God wills and we are still alive, we see each other tomorrow.

This article is sooooo fascinating I’m going crazy over this part too

#neat!

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from now on we’re calling all the stem folk ‘students of the unhallowed arts’, just like mary shelley wanted us to do

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Argillite Orca or Killer Whale with Haida Woman 

Andrew Williams 

from the website:  This Argillite Orca or Killer Whale with Haida Woman sculpture is an interpretation of the Haida Story, where Nanasimgit saves his wife from the Undersea World, to which an Orca or Killer Whale had taken her. Andrew Williams from the Haida Nation carved this piece and incorporated 31 inlays of mastodon ivory, abalone and catlinite or pipestone.

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if anyone needs me i'll be frothing at the mouth thinking about the origin of language and interspecies communication. happy wednesday.

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sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. ppl have the idea that edible plants are "organic" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. that is love. that is faith. when you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you

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My new, totally uneducated guess for why humans tell stories is to keep them from getting bored and cranky while following a gazelle for four hours. No deeper mystery or meaning. Some folk needed a distraction while they tried to catch dinner so they just made some shit up. The end.

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#this is so cool i had no idea #quechua

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on all levels but physical i am these banana cats

#😔✌🏻

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January 26 1988 - Burnum Burnum plants the Aboriginal flag at the cliffs of Dover, claiming England for the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, exactly 200 years after Arthur Phillip claimed Australia for the British. [video] The full Burnum Burnum Declaration:

I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia, do hereby take possession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo - ‘a fresh start’. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovereignty over this domain. For the more advanced, we bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.

We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganinni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilize your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.

Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.

Burnum Burnum

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A friend of mine with a passion for folklore and small presses recently introduced me to Inhabit Media, and I’m so glad to have had a chance to peruse these books. 

Inhabit Media is an Inuit-owned publishing company based in Iqaluit, Nunavut (i.e. very very very North). They are dedicated to preserving and promoting the stories, knowledge, culture, and language of the Inuit and of Northern Canada, and they publish a range of books for children and adults that include contemporary and historical fiction, folklore and legends retold and beautifully illustrated, and non-fiction on history, science, and arctic life. 

If you enjoy folklore, oral history, wintertime storytelling, or really superbly creepy mermaids, definitely check them out. 

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A multilingual pun for y’all today! An avo-gato or avo-cat-o

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Spanish Vocab from Pride & Prejudice

Note: This list includes advanced Spanish vocabulary that I’ve found during my read of Pride & Prejudice (Orgullo y Prejucio) by Jane Austen. Please do tell me if you’d be interested in more vocab lists like this one :)

I´ve included the words’ meaning in Spanish, synonyms in Spanish as well as an English translation of the word.

Word; meaning in Spanish; synonyms; translation in English

Encomiable: digno de alabanza; elogiable, plausible; praiseworthy, commendable

Escrúpulo: duda o recelo hacia algo desde el punto de vista moral; aprensión, recelo; scruple, doubt

Prescindir: omitir, privarse; excluir, eliminar; do without

Circunstancial: que depende de una circunstancia o situación; ocasional, accidental; circumstantial

Consternación: pena que sufre una persona; aflicción, pesar; dismay

Infame: que carece de honra, sin honor ni crédito; innoble, indigno, perverso; vile, despicable

Parlotear: hablar mucho por diversión o sin sentido; chacharear, parlar, charlar; ramble

Argucia: argumento falso; falsedad, engaño, artimaña; scheme

Dubitativo: que implica duda; dudoso, titubeante; dubious

#español #vocabulario