Jeremy Bradley

That's what I'm doing right now. When you're being told by hosts of actual linguists, people who work with language and its role in society professionally, that your behavior here was problematic, it might make sense to take a step back and consider if this is actually a role you want to play.

If there is a genuine issue with understanding what someone means, you can ask for clarification, but this simply wasn't the case here, and it basically never is with these kind of style questions.

Well that's exactly the issue: if you give this kind of unsolicited advice, you are positioning yourself hierarchically. The appropriate context for corrections of this type is between parents and children, teachers and students: i.e. hierarchical relationships.

Not really. There is a difference between a consensus on structure and meaning arising naturally (which happens also in communities without literacy!), and proscribing structures and words where that consensus existed. That's inherently hierarchical and not something people need to be doing.

(Not that this was probably the classic emphatic usage, but from the same domain.)

Also, etymology / origin has little (nothing) to do with what is considered "correct", but emphatic use of -self forms is incredibly old, as exemplified by it working in German too! ("Ich selbst hätte das so nicht gemacht") Which really underlines how .. somebody just made up this "rule".

Es tut mir Leid, aber das kann so nicht stimmen. Am 9. August dieses Jahres gab es keine Mondfinsternis.

The Institute of Uralic Studies at LMU Munich is seeking applications for a position of a lecturer in Hungarian. It is a full-time permanent position with a starting date in February 2026. The deadline for applications is 20 September 2025. Please spread the word! job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

(obviously, you can ping me for logistical details)

But the main question as regards time needed: can you make it to Hamburg?

Time-consuming but not terrible. I've visited all of them. You take a train to Dagebüll (about 3 hours from Hamburg) and get on a ferry there, 1-2 hours depending which one you're heading to. They're wonderfully easy to get around on by bike, and there are rentals.

The makers of Star Trek: TNG also picked it up and gave it to a race of big-eared greedy aliens.
Persian in turn got the term from a weird foreign force appearing in Western Asia during the crusades: the Franks, a Germanic tribe that also gave its name to Frankfurt, and of course, France. (3/3)

The Meadow Mari word is clearly borrowed from (Turkic) bäräηgä ‘potato’, which Ähmätyanov traces back to Persian farang (the f ~ p/b alternation is common in the region) – a generic word used for weird foreign stuff that’s spread across Eurasia into languages such as Thai, Hmong, Lao, Hokkien. (2/3)

A circular arrangement of: a potato, three Ferengi (aliens from Star Trek), Paris (showing the Eiffel Tower and the Seine), with lines connecting the three and an equal sign = in a circle over each line.

#CursedEtymologies: This makes sense, I promise!

The Meadow Mari (a Finno-Ugric language of the Volga region) word pareηge 'potato' at first sight seems odd ... and at second sight seems etymologically connected to France, and the Ferengi – an alien race from Star Trek.

How come? (1/3)

Ich komm mit ihnen immer ins Gespräch, weil ich Estnisch kann (long story) - dann werden sie noch erfrischend ehrlicher darüber, dass das ganze eher life style als Band ist. Kaufe ihnen jedes Mal eine CD ab, rein aus Respekt dafür

Literally where the term comes from!!

I'm sure I've read people questioning if Slavic aspect is really prototypical aspect - same energy!

A porcelain bear is sitting in front of a computer, filling out a registration form. The name "Oš" is entered into the field "Given name", all other fields are empty.

Die Anmeldung für die IFUSCO XL (22.-26. April), die diesjährige internationale finno-ugrische Studierendenkonferenz, ist offen!

Registration for IFUSCO XL (22 - 26 April), this year's International Finno-Ugric Students' Conference, is open!

ifuscoxl.univie.ac.at

Dat moment when you've survived the winter school

Group picture of participants in the 2025 Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies, standing in an ice-cold but sunny courtyard, some participants wearing winter jackets, hats, and gloves, some participants wearing just a sweater.

Accidentally artsy group picture.

#2025WinterSchool

Weather widget showing -7° in Mauerbach at 07:42

The #2025WinterSchool of Finno-Ugric studies has begun, with appropriate temperatures!

What I also find so frustrating about dismissing the severity of this behavior because it's all jokey-jokes and trolling (I don't think the quoted post is necessarily doing that, but lots of folks are) is ... like that isn't directly lifted from the authoritarian playbook!

Übersichttafel der Institute am Campus der Universität Wien. Im Hof 7.2 gibt es laut der Tafel ein Einstitut für Finno und Ugrisrik.

Fast 20 Jahre an der wiener Finno-Ugristik und noch nie diese Tafel direkt hinter der Abteilung bemerkt.

Oh no! He seemed like a truly magnificent and lovable doofus.

"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:

Poster mit dem Text: "Russisch-orthodoxe Missionare widmeten sich ab Ende des 18. Jh. systematisch den indigenen Völkern des Russischen Kaiserreichs. Sie erstellten Grammatiken und Wörterbücher von mindestens 31 Sprachen verschiedener Sprachfamilien, entwickelten Alphabete auf der Grundlage des kyrillischen Alphabets und übersetztenzahlreiche Texte kirchlichen, pädagogischen und staatlichen Charakters. Vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Arbeit werden auch Fragen der staatlichen Politik gegenüber indigenen Völkern deutlich. Im Vortrag wird den finno-ugrischen Sprachen besondere Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Katarína Džunková hat International Area Studies, Orientalistik und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft an der Karls-Universität Prag studiert und in historischer Linguistik an der Staatlichen Universität St. Petersburg und der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften promoviert."

Im kommenden Jahr gleich eine spannende Veranstaltung: "Missionarslinguistik im Russischen Kaiserreich. Schwerpunkt: Finno-ugrische Sprachen", ein Gastvortrag von Katarína Džunková (Karls-Universität Prag). Mittwoch, 22.1.2025, 18:00, HS1 (und Zoom; Link nach Anfrage). Herzlich willkommen!

Sign reading "SPORT und ERHOLUNGSZENTRUM BREITENLEE"

Linguistic realization courtesy of @ulaantenger.bsky.social: there is a (sub-)district of Vienna carrying a name that is element for element cognate with my surname!

Der fleißige Herbst im Hof 7 In der Wiener Finno-Ugristik begann das Wintersemester mit einer internationalen Literaturkonferenz unter dem Titel Zugänge zu László Krasznahorkais Lebenswerk, organisiert von unserer Erika Erling…

Über unsere Veranstaltungen im vergangenen Herbst – mit einem kleinen Ausblick.
wienerfinnougristik.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/d...

A man and a woman meet in a store. He says "I love Marimekko", she says "Me too". On the second picture, he is wearing a shirt with a Marimekko design, and she is wearing a Mari shirt. It's really funny if you know Finnish, I swear!

Time to start posting cryptic memes here I guess :D

Sounds great, pleas add me!