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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 4h

I mean, it might end up being a network of like, five people. I just wonder if making such a thing could be viable.

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 4h

I got this little idea in my head today and I'm not sure if I can let it go... What if we started a Canadian Association for Indo-European Studies?

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 8h

Sanskrit manuscripts have these abbreviations in the margin referring to texts - anyone aware if there is a complete list of the standard abbreviations?

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 18h

Having listened by now I will report it's at least pretty alright to me, but I'm not entirely sure if it's your thing.

Age of Aquarius (feat. Alcest)

YouTube video by Perturbator - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 19h

Prosodic phonology isn't a subject taught in archaeological schools, who would have known?

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Not entirely related, but I'm reminded of what my friend Neil Ashton (also another student of Selina's) used to say to me: "Matthew, you are a *philologist*. You're allowed to invent new words if you want."

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

This post brought to you by me trying to write a sentence using 'archaeobotany' and 'zooarchaeology' next to each other and suddenly feeling an impending existential dread.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I really hate the English language.

OED:

zooarchaeology 'the study of animal remains from archaeological sites'

OED:

archaeozoology 'the scientific analysis or study of animal remains from archaeological sites'

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Got the latest Perturbator album in my hands with featured guest artists Ulver and Alcest and trying to explain this to myself twenty years ago in terms other than 'this rules you should listen to it now'.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 1d

Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

A colleague is referring to this kind of document in an article and there's a specific term for them in Danish but he didn't know what to call them in English, and I realised I had a specific word for it but wasn't sure if it was widespread in other Englishes.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · May 11

I am really into leather(-bound grammar books).

Some antique books on a shelf with half-leather bindings.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

I have to admit that I also find $2.99 for a pack of ground beef and $6.99 for a sirloin roast pretty unbelievable offers in this economy, but maybe I've just gotten used to food prices over here for the last three and a half years.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

Are there no No Frills supermarkets in Newfoundland?

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

The dangers of being asked for your L1 instincts when you natively speak a global language with a lot of weird regional varieties...

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to those who replied. I guess '(advertising) flyer' does, in fact, seem a pretty neutral term for this generally and it's not a weird Canadian regionalism I have. I have now informed my Danish colleagues that they can use that word.

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

Quick question on behalf of my friends in the language psychology subsection of the department: In your variety of English what would you call these glossy commercial sales pamplets that inform on weekly deals that are typically stuffed into your mailbox every week?

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

I've got 'flyers', but doing some googling this *seems* to be a Canadianism (but I'm not 100% sure?)

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

Quick question on behalf of my friends in the language psychology subsection of the department: In your variety of English what would you call these glossy commercial sales pamplets that inform on weekly deals that are typically stuffed into your mailbox every week?

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

"Cabbage (brassica) is the foremost of all vegetables. Eat it either cooked or raw. If you eat it raw, dip it in vinegar. It digests marvellously, it's good for the bowels, and the urine is healthy for all things." (Cato Maior, De agri cultura 156.1)

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

this is a t-shirt design I submitted to the university of alberta history and classics graduate student association a decade and a half ago that they never made because they were cowards.

Marcius Porcus Cato thinking about cabbage as a cure-all wonder drug with a passage from his farming manual De agri cultura.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

nobody ever writes that dark academia novel about giving oneself a coffee and alcohol induced stomach ulcer from burnout over writing an ERC consolidator grant that never got funded.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t prove a counterfactual but I do sometimes wonder where we’d be if they had just stuck with “these fuckers are weird as hell” for like a few more weeks

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Domino toppling meme; the tiny one at the beginning says “accidentally only studying captive wolves” and the end one says “grown men losing their shit about eating soy”

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

nobody ever writes that dark academia novel about giving oneself a coffee and alcohol induced stomach ulcer from burnout over writing an ERC consolidator grant that never got funded.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 4d

Scottish pancakes, I believe.

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