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The Maspero Massacre: Ten Years On October 9 marks ten years since the Maspero Massacre. As a result of indiscriminate state violence and incitement, 28 Egyptians were killed and hundreds were injured. One decade later, accountability ...

Today marks 14 years since the Maspero Massacre in which Egyptian security forces violently responded to a peaceful protest against a church demolition, killing 28 and injuring hundreds. On this painful day, we revisit our piece from the tenth anniversary. timep.org/2021/10/12/t...

The historical parallels are glaring.

A quantuɯ of solace ... 🤓

He did want Turkish Delight and to be a prince (and later a king) and to pay Peter out for calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do with the others, he didn't want her to be particularly nice to them - certainly not to put them on the same level as himself; but he managed to believe, or to pretend he believed, that she wouldn't do anything very bad to them, 'Because,' he said to himself, 'all these people who say nasty things about her are her enemies and probably half of it isn't true. She was jolly nice to me, anyway, much nicer than they are. I expect she is the rightful Queen really. Anyway, she'll be better than that awful Aslan!' At least, that was the excuse he made in his own mind for what he was doing. It wasn't a very good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment.

Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

i feel like they didn't really know what to do with Poseidon. he's basically king triton, ruler of the seas and everything in them. but also horses? oh and he makes earthquakes

διχθά τοι, Ἐννοσίγαιε, θεοὶ τιμὴν ἐδάσαντο,
ἵππων τε δμητῆρ᾽ ἔμεναι σωτῆρά τε νηῶν.

"in two, Earthshaker, the gods divided your lordship:
being both the tamer of horses and the savior of ships." - Homeric Hymn to Poseidon

nice syntactic chiasmus in
hippōn dmētēra .. sōtēra nēōn
gen acc .. acc gen

It's genuinely shocking how little of Rafah is left. An ancient city that had a pre-war population of ~200k, forced to take over 1,000,000 refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis, then completely levelled for the crime of being the only city in Gaza with an escape route.

I never thought I would say this but our school has no soap for students to wash their hands in the restroom.

I have my own bathroom and desperately need soap so that students can wash their hands. Any help is greatly appreciated

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In Wales most placenames are pronounced exactly as they look. However, tourists often make the mistake of pronouncing them as they look *in English*, which makes it immediately obvious that they're tourists.

Entry Discussion Citations XA ^ Hebrew i i Etymology According to Genesis 41:51 from the present participle of n! / n' (nish, "to cause to forget"), as the wealth and prosperity that Joseph had acquired in Egypt had caused him to forget his father's family. Apparently also attested in Akkadian as IF <7 IE= (Menasî).

huh yep looks like this is indeed the Pi'el participle of the "forget" verb

🤯 hadn't even thought about that but you are probably right

i guess probably D-stem *munassiy-

His father, Mnaseas, had a name ambiguously meaningful both in Phoenician ("one causing to forget") and in Greek ("mindful"). footnote 14: Magill, Frank N. (2003). The Ancient World: Dictionary of World Biography. Vol. 1. Routledge. p. 1273.

i saw this in the bio of Zeno of Citium and thought it was interesting. i wonder what exactly the Phoenician reading would be (a participle with m- plus some form of [nsy] i guess)

old japanese be like “woman”

Could someone read this Tamgha? I think it’s Abdulmejid I. But the date I can see (X33X) does’r work for his reign (1255-1277 Hijri). Anyone? Is it 1335 and somehow Mehmed V?

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

24h into the ‘ceasefire’, Israel bombed a residential building in Gaza.

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I know that if I post a picture of me dirty or suffering, it will get a lot of interaction and participation and it will be attractive, but my friends, I was living the best life and because my geographical location in Gaza my life was destroyed. I am just trying to rebuild

im sorry i had to

this is cool

also, in the case of Arabic, very nice that "estimative" looks like it starts with اِستِـ

ginormous screenshot from linked article, Guillaume Jacques

It turns out the term is not at all new for Arabic, and here is an article (✨OA✨) that lists 35 other languages with "estimative morphology"—

"Estimative constructions in cross-linguistic perspective"
by Guillaume Jacques
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Clitics 287 for the veracity of the statement and he reports what was reported to him. ee [aTa] seems to be related to e5 [an] "to say'. ed/e [aTa/Ta] can also be used depending on the context to mean 'he/she/it says' or 'they say' referring to definite persons, as in Sentences 3 and 4 above. o/ [aTa/Ta] is generally added to a verb in the second or third person, since the speaker (first person) cannot profess ignorance of a proposition involving himself. This is possible in the first person when a speaker reports his experience in a dream as reported to him by others: e.g. 'It seems I wept in my sleep last night.' [neenu ninna raatri niddaraloo eeDcEEnaTa.] page from Krishnamurti and Gwynn 1985

great example sentence that finds away around the "you wouldn't use an indirect evidential marker about yourself" rule:

"It seems I wept in my sleep last night."

nēnu
1SG

ninna rātri
yesterday night

nidra-lō
sleep-LOC

ēḍc-ǣ-n=aṭa
weep-PAST-1SG=EV

wow that's super interesting! i like the epistemic and speech act becauses, this is something i feel like i have thought about but never knew there was a word for. will have to read more abt this

somebody on twitter had collected (many) instances of this, where people (often western journalists) will find any ridiculous euphemism in the world to refer to Palestinian children in order to avoid saying outright that Israel imprisons children

i think you wouldn't say the second part is subordinate to the first in your example, right? it's less "was ist das, was das ist?" and more "was ist das? (hey,) was das ist?" if i understood correctly

<i am reading a German book for the first time in a long time so please bear with me for the sudden change in the trajectory of my tweets. "what trajectory?" ok that is fair>

it's interesting that (at least sometimes?) "parken" in German is a stative verb: parkende Autos (lit. parking cars) are cars that are sitting in a parking spot. for me, in English, "to park" is always an event (you can say "parked cars" for the state, which are cars that the event has happened to).

Do you think Arabic newsrooms have dedicated transliteration systems for each language

dus voor jou is de verandering van de woordvolgorde niet genoeg, het als indirect speech te markeren?

but maybe there are semantic nuances between them too, i have never thought or read much about it. would be interesting to find sources on that