Words For That

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Who takes it?

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The initial "G" on a print from 1532. A man sitting in the G and is working with a geographical instrument. This is a detail from "Introductio Geographica Petri Apiani" (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, 2 LR 18#(Beibd. 2)

Being busy as an academic back then. Sitting in your working spacing (here it's the Initial "G"), wearing your thinking hat, doing scientific stuff with instruments (he's measuring), and forgetting the world outside (in this case a page in Latin about geography). The year is 1523. #academicchatter

Sure he's not just trying to figure out how to work the new barbecue?

Homepage - Public Books Think in public.

There's a new look at Public Books! We’re debuting a brand-new website (we can’t stop looking in the mirror), and a redoubled commitment to the goal we’ve had since the very start: creating a classroom the size of the world.

I think you'll be OK unless anyone finds out. Ah.

I'm so glad! Learning such things makes me feel better about th whole world.

Can't believe it's my second #earlymodern eels repost in three days.

As we used to say, there's a paper in this.

& eels rilly dont stay 'fresh' long....

Where is th

AMEN

button on this thing?

For anyone who thought all that Harry Potter stuff wasn't real.

Fot all its beautiful #etymology, th word 'eel' somehow evokes th darker, slipperier connotations of th thing it names.

If we'd stuck with 'fenn-fysche,' now, we'd surely have had a very different relationship, keeping them as pets and bragging about them to impress our friends at dinner parties.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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The front cover of the 1st UK edition of Henry James' 1897 novel, "What Maisie Knew", showing a relief design of a bunch of tulips. The cover is a sombre peacock blue-green.

"She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction..."

What Maisie Knew (1897).

Inexplicable UK 1st ed. cover

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free - Rolling Stone

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Our member Jan Zalega has published “External Lexical Influences in the English Language from Antiquity to Modern Times,” tracing how contact with other languages has enriched English over centuries.
#etymology #research #linguistics

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Because #linguistics must never forget where it came from.

Can only hope Herzog's "Right Wing Paddington Bear" fades out. Or, being on Peely on a wet Tuesday night in winter, that no-one will actually hear it.

Age is good.

Because I dont know why I didn't get this from #linguistics or ##earlymodern ...

Y'know we'll only find something else to give us a break between reading & writing in our books and reading & writing in our mails.

Ah, we're addicted to something, and its not th tech.

File under #earlymodern, if y missed it elsewhere.

A candle surrounded by wires and flowers with the text "We will always remember"

#NeverAgain is now.

Today, we remember the unprecedented horrors of the Holocaust and honour the memory of the six million Jews and the millions of others who were murdered.

The EU is determined to combat antisemitism and all forms of discrimination.

Today, tomorrow, always.

The next session of the Animal Linguistics seminar will take place on Wed., Jan. 28, 5pm Paris, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Christoph Grüter: Bee talk - Communication in an unpredictable world.
All are welcome!

It's almost as if 'reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.'

Can't be, tho' right? Because if that's right, then 'who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'

Sometimes, it's almost like our leaders know this stuff.

Setting this one free among #bookistory.

A log of what we who read abt books for a living read would be something.

Did y see Bob Mortimer's crisp packet up there?

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I had no idea how much I'd wanted to hear these words.

Chapeau.

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Andreas Bretschneider New Modelbüch (Leipzig: Henning Gross the Younger, 1615). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936

Where was Stijnman & Savage way back when I was being knocked sideways by one Andreas Bretschneider teaching me there was colour?

(Follows gratuitous, beautiful, illustration)

Signed

An old time-y illustration of a Snowdrop.

Today is Quartidi the 4th of Pluviôse in the year 234.
Pluviôse is the month of rain.
Today we celebrate snowdrop. #JacobinDay

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