kobayashi ḫamṭu

Demand for bilingual education outpacing Boston schools efforts to keep up - The Boston Globe A church-run mentorship program places multilingual parents from local communities inside classrooms.

Demand for bilingual education outpacing Boston schools efforts to keep up; With only 7 percent of English language learners enrolled in dual language programs, bilingual parents are stepping in to help.

Buddha head with nimbus from Berenike

Astonishing finds excavated at Berenike in Egypt include Buddha images & other artifacts from India and some made locally in Indian style, plus a bilingual Sanskrit & Greek dedicatory inscription found near a marble Buddha head in an Isis temple courtyard.
publications.dainst.org/journals/jdi...

all these nonprofit orgs sending me emails with the subject line "It's Giving Tuesday" sure read different now that I've been infected by the kids these day slang.

[looks out window at gray skies and slushy roads]

yeah, it's giving tuesday. slay, queen.

Cop shit is seductive. It makes metrics transparent. It allows for the clear progress toward learning objectives. (“Badges” are cop shit, by the way.) It also subsumes education within a market logic. “Here,” cop shit says, “you will learn how to do this thing. We will know you learned it by the acquisition of this gold star. But in order for me to award you this gold star, I must parse you, sense you, track you, collect you, and—” here’s the key, “I will presume that you will attempt to flout me at every turn. We are both scamming each other, you and I, and I intend to win.” When a classroom becomes adversarial, of course, as cop shit presumes, then there must be a clear winner and loser. The student’s education then becomes not a victory for their own self-improvement or -enrichment, but rather that the teacher conquered the student’s presumed inherent laziness, shiftiness, etc. to instill some kernel of a lesson.

"'We are both scamming each other, you and I, and I intend to win.' When a classroom becomes adversarial, of course, as cop shit presumes, then there must be a clear winner and loser."
- Jeffery Moro, Against Cop Shit
jeffreymoro.com/blog/2020-02...

oh ok gotcha. maybe slightly different from my idiom then

324. سالته عن ابوه فقال خالي شعيب I asked him about his father. " My uncle's name is Shayb," he replied. Applied to those giving an answer not suited to the question. .the father's brother عم ;is the mother's brother خال

saʔalt-u ʕan ʔabū-h
fa-ʔāl xāl-i Šuʕayb

(Egyptian Arabic Proverbs, 1830)

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

📈 Listen up!
💡 There is a considerable gap in the field of historical linguistics re the diachronic study of tone.
💡 The latest SI of 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢 brings together contributions from linguists specializing in different regions & language families who work on 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲:
doi.org/10.1075/dia....

Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern.

As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.

Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

There’s just nothing left of a university’s mission if instructors can be disciplined and fired for teaching the current state of knowledge in their fields, the degrees they issue are worth precisely the value of the paper they’re printed on and not a jot more

Linguistics/philosophy of language folks: do you have any favorite readings on the semantics/pragmatics of reminding?

ܘܕܝܬܒܝܢ ܒܐܪܥܐ ܕܛܠܠܝ̈ ܡܘܬܐ
wa-d-yātbin b-arʕā d-ṭellālay mawtā
and (the people) who dwell in the land of the shadows of death

ܢܘܗܪܐ ܕܢܚ ܥܠܝܗܘܢ
nuhrā dnaḥ ʕlayhon
light has shone upon them

2/2

Syriac sentence of the day
(Isaiah 9:2):

ܥܡܐ ܕܡܗܠܟܝܢ ܒܚܫܘܟܐ
ʕammā da-mhallkin b-ḥeššōkā
the people who walk in darkness

ܚܙܘ ܢܘܗܪܐ ܪܒܐ
ḥzaw nuhrā rabbā
have seen a great light

1/2

Um hello, based department

ooh and (i just looked it up) it's Więcesław or Więcław in Polish, also with the nasal!

(but also borrowed from Czech as Wacław)

it is very cool how 'Good King Wenceslas' preserves the nasalised vowel lost from modern Czech Vaclav

bis tantum vivis
ita utique videtur
alteram pro te vitam
alteramque pro somniis

tibi per annos vaganti
vita placida videtur
dum somnium conspiciatur
quod Amor dicitur

hospes est Amor
te provocans
non periculum cogitaveris
ne hospes discedat

Devastation on Gaza. Via NBC

Tasneem's youngest daughter, Alma.

NBC: "Gaza death toll rises to 70,000 as ceasefire is tested by repeated outbreaks of violence."

The death toll is far higher and the attacks continue. Life is treacherous for civilians.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️🙏

chuffed.org/project/1587...

Israel announces plan to seize historical site in the West Bank as a new settlement appears Peace Now, an anti-settlement watchdog group, said the site is around 450 acres — Israel’s largest seizure of archaeologically important land.

Israel's government plans to seize about 450 acres of the historic Sebastia site in the West Bank as settlers set up a new outpost near Bethlehem. Rights groups warn of escalating land grabs and rising tensions. #Israel #Palestine #WestBank #Sebastia

the toddler tried her (as far as i am aware) first relative clause today

"das ist das haus haben wir gebaut" (the context is minecraft)

it's not exactly what the grammar pedants would consider ✌️correct✌️ but i was so happy to hear the attempt 🥹

i always assumed something like this must be the case but never knew the backstory

Story time! The star Betelgeuse gets its name from Arabic يد الجوزاء <Yad al-Jawzāʾ>: "Hand of Orion" (kind of, see below). In the 1200s this was misread as بد الجوزاء <Bad al-Jawzāʾ>, and was transliterated into Latin as "Bedalgeuze."

🧵 1/10

A lot of the focus is on Hegseth but every person in the chain of command decided they were going to kill those guys.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Opinion | History will judge Biden harshly on Gaza In the remaining weeks of his presidency, Biden must correct course.

In December 2024, Van Hollen penned an open letter to Biden and urged him before his term ended to

•Recognize Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital,
•Suspend all offensive military assistance to Israel as the law demands
•Embargo all settler goods from being imported

is it normal in Late Bab. to have nominative-looking words (like garakku) where we'd expect a genitive (garakki[m])? if i'm reading this right

Clay tablet with 30 lines of cuneiform text. A highlighted line (18) reads: a-di AN.GE₆ u₂-nam-mar IZI ina muḫ-ḫi ga-rak-ku la te-bel-<le> (MLC.1872)

Instructions from Hellenistic Uruk for priests on what rituals to perform during a lunar eclipse, written in a neat Late Babylonian hand

𒀀𒁲 𒀭𒈪 𒌑𒉆𒈥 𒉈 𒀸 𒌋𒅗𒄭 𒂵𒊩𒆪 𒆷𒋼𒉈𒇷

adi antalû unammar išātu ina muḫḫi garakku lā tebelle

Until the eclipse becomes light, the fire on the altar must not be extinguished

we say "unthaw" too! (wiktionary calls 'un-' an "intensifier" here fwiw)

A Harpers Weekly engraving from 1869 depicting Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner as described in the main text of this skeet. There are also images of Lincoln, Washington, and Grant on the wall.

How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.

A old wooden sign that reads "J. H. Storey Cordwainer" hanging on an old building in a narrow alley

Spotted on this morning's walk: 'cordwainer', a shoemaker or worker with cordwain leather. You might not guess from its appearance that 'cordwain' has Mediterranean origins – the word comes from the Spanish city of Córdoba.