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Everyone talks about German losing the genitive case, but I think it's more remarkable that nouns are *also* losing the dative and accusative endings. The system is being reduced to articles and pronouns, it seems.

"Every country has its national anthem" can be expressed in Cantonese as: gok3 go3 g(w)ok3 gaa1 jau5 gok3 go3 g(w)ok3 gaa1 ge3 g(w)ok3 go1 各個國家有各個國家嘅國歌 which sounds like a chicken clucking 🤣

10 июля умер Эндрю Вест - один из лучших людей, которых я знал. Честный, прямой, верный, мудрый, ранимый. Лучший знаток древних письменностей, создатель множества шрифтов, точно имеющий дар слышать мысли их создателей, давно ушедших. Теперь ушёл и он. babelstone.co.uk

Gaza’s Libraries: A Chronicle of Erasure Book by book, shelf by shelf—centuries of Gaza’s memory are being reduced to ash. 🧵Scroll down for a devastating inventory of destruction: each post documents a library or museum erased:

I am utterly shocked and saddened by the news of Andrew West‘s untimely passing. He was a huge inspiration, an impressive scholar, and a kind and generous person. FAMA PER ORA VOLAT SPIRITUS ASTRA TENET

Andrew West inspired new generations to study the long dead writing systems and langauges of Asia and I'm forever grateful for his research and resources. ᢀᠣᠸᠠ ᠮᠠᢏᢈ ᢒᠠᢑᠮᠧ ᢀᠾᠤᠤ

Two-year-old Laila was shot in the head by Israeli forces while inside her home in Jenin, in the occupied #WestBank. According to @‌UNHumanRights, Israeli forces have repeatedly used unnecessary, disproportionate — and often lethal — force against Palestinians who did not pose

“O aprendizado, os ganhos assim como os limites e os fracassos do constitucionalismo monárquico são um depósito a ser revisitado, pois ali se encontram as nossas origens, para o bem e para o mal”.

OM MANI PADME HUM oṃ ma ṇi pa dme hūṃ ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པད་མེ་ཧཱུྃ 𑖌𑖼𑖦𑖜𑖰𑖢𑖟𑖿𑖦𑖸𑖮𑖳𑖽 ꡝꡡꡏ ꡏ ꡋꡞ ꡌꡊ ꡏꡠ ꡜꡟꡃ ǎn má ní bā mí hōng 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 ॐ मणिपद्मे हूं babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/11/m… Digital Mani Stone, for the benefit of Andrew West, linguist (1960-2025)

The best of the genre has to be Wuxi. It literally means "no tin" but actually has a Xishan (tin mountain) and used to produce plenty of tin

Looking forward to Joan Judge’s forthcoming book from UChicagoPress. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ Egas: a very interesting paper. Thank you for bringing attention to it. Years ago, I translated an oral history piece by Zhao Hang, great grandson of Zhao Erfeng (“The Butcher of Lhasa”) who is mentioned in this paper. Maybe of passing interest? chinaheritage.net/journal/stayin…

Go K. H.'s system for transcribing southern Min languages into Arabic Malay

this is also why the daoists have a special version of 氣 which is 炁