Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak
@ksymil.bsky.social
Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology.
📍 Kraków, Poland
🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
📍 Kraków, Poland
🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
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Da etliche kleinere Fehler beseitigt wurden, dachte ich, dass es mal wieder Zeit für einen erneuten Upload wäre ...
GRUNDRISS DER GOTISCHEN ETYMOLOGIE
This is as far as I am concerned the final version of the Grundriss der Gotischen Etymologie (2024) - only misspellings, missing words in the index or forgotten literature will be corrected/added. Wit...
www.academia.edu
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Da etliche kleinere Fehler beseitigt wurden, dachte ich, dass es mal wieder Zeit für einen erneuten Upload wäre ...
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"The existing language of Japan, taken as a whole, is neither Japanese nor Chinese, but a jargon made up of Japanese and mis-pronounced, and often mis-used, Chinese;"
Quite a thing so say ... and of course in English. 😅
(Featuring also: ear- and eye-languages. 🤔)
< books.google.de/books?id=RR3...
Quite a thing so say ... and of course in English. 😅
(Featuring also: ear- and eye-languages. 🤔)
< books.google.de/books?id=RR3...
December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"The existing language of Japan, taken as a whole, is neither Japanese nor Chinese, but a jargon made up of Japanese and mis-pronounced, and often mis-used, Chinese;"
Quite a thing so say ... and of course in English. 😅
(Featuring also: ear- and eye-languages. 🤔)
< books.google.de/books?id=RR3...
Quite a thing so say ... and of course in English. 😅
(Featuring also: ear- and eye-languages. 🤔)
< books.google.de/books?id=RR3...
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Die einzige Chance, in unserer heutigen Zeit nicht verrückt zu werden...
... besteht darin, es bereits zu sein.
... besteht darin, es bereits zu sein.
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Die einzige Chance, in unserer heutigen Zeit nicht verrückt zu werden...
... besteht darin, es bereits zu sein.
... besteht darin, es bereits zu sein.
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NEW INTERVIEW 🦚
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
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A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
ingeveb.org/blog/convers...
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath | In geveb
Ilan Stavans and Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath talk Yiddish dictionaries, lexicography, and how the Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary came to be.
ingeveb.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NEW INTERVIEW 🦚
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
ingeveb.org/blog/convers...
A Brief History of Yiddish Dictionaries: Ilan Stavans in Conversation with Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath
ingeveb.org/blog/convers...
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Some books really deserve a sticker or something on their cover saying:
⚠️ No primary sources were harmed* in the making of this book. ⚠️
(* Or even looked at for that matter.)
⚠️ No primary sources were harmed* in the making of this book. ⚠️
(* Or even looked at for that matter.)
December 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Some books really deserve a sticker or something on their cover saying:
⚠️ No primary sources were harmed* in the making of this book. ⚠️
(* Or even looked at for that matter.)
⚠️ No primary sources were harmed* in the making of this book. ⚠️
(* Or even looked at for that matter.)
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#Chancen | The Hebrew and Yiddish subdivision at John Hopkins University offers a PhD program in Jewish Languages and Literatures | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#yiddish #hebrew #phd
Deadline for submission of all materials: January 15, 2026
#yiddish #hebrew #phd
Deadline for submission of all materials: January 15, 2026
December 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
#Chancen | The Hebrew and Yiddish subdivision at John Hopkins University offers a PhD program in Jewish Languages and Literatures | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#yiddish #hebrew #phd
Deadline for submission of all materials: January 15, 2026
#yiddish #hebrew #phd
Deadline for submission of all materials: January 15, 2026
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I opened up my copy of Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä's Notes from an Island to find the Politikens Boghal receipt with the tagline "It's not hoarding if it's books" on it, which I never noticed before.
Having recently packed and shipped several crates of books overseas I feel a bit uncomfortable.
Having recently packed and shipped several crates of books overseas I feel a bit uncomfortable.
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I opened up my copy of Tove Jansson & Tuulikki Pietilä's Notes from an Island to find the Politikens Boghal receipt with the tagline "It's not hoarding if it's books" on it, which I never noticed before.
Having recently packed and shipped several crates of books overseas I feel a bit uncomfortable.
Having recently packed and shipped several crates of books overseas I feel a bit uncomfortable.
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Become part of this movement to safeguard minoritised communities and their linguistic and cultural heritage - check out the website here. You can get in touch to join or come along to a meeting first to find out what it's all about.
www.scriptkeepers.org
www.scriptkeepers.org
Script Keepers Network – Safeguarding Scripts
Script Keepers Network Unites People To Protect And Revitalize The World’s Endangered Writing Systems.
www.scriptkeepers.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Become part of this movement to safeguard minoritised communities and their linguistic and cultural heritage - check out the website here. You can get in touch to join or come along to a meeting first to find out what it's all about.
www.scriptkeepers.org
www.scriptkeepers.org
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The next meetings of the Script Keepers Network will be next Sunday, 14th December, all very welcome. Here are the zoom registration links:
09:00 ET (14.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
16:00 ET (21.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
09:00 ET (14.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
16:00 ET (21.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The next meetings of the Script Keepers Network will be next Sunday, 14th December, all very welcome. Here are the zoom registration links:
09:00 ET (14.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
16:00 ET (21.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
09:00 ET (14.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
16:00 ET (21.00 GMT) - us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Today in 1983 I got my first email address.
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Today in 1983 I got my first email address.
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December 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Wayne P. Lawrence: 日本語起源論における諸問題―助詞をめぐって― [Problems in the study of the origin of the Japanese language – On particles], unpublished BA dissertation, 1982
Completely hand-written!
www.academia.edu/145248374/%E...
Completely hand-written!
www.academia.edu/145248374/%E...
日本語起源論における諸問題 - 助詞をめぐって [Problems in the study of the origin of the Japanese language - On particles]
日本語起源論における諸問題 - 助詞をめぐって [Problems in the study of the origin of the Japanese language - On particles]
www.academia.edu
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Wayne P. Lawrence: 日本語起源論における諸問題―助詞をめぐって― [Problems in the study of the origin of the Japanese language – On particles], unpublished BA dissertation, 1982
Completely hand-written!
www.academia.edu/145248374/%E...
Completely hand-written!
www.academia.edu/145248374/%E...
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The recording for this lecture is now available on our Vimeo! vimeo.com/1142407067
Ullendorff Lecture: Matthew Morgenstern, 'Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect'
Ninth Edward Ullendorff Lecture, Full Title: 'Theodor Nöldeke’s Mandäische Grammatik (1875) in Retrospect: 150 Years of Babylonian Aramaic Studies',…
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December 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The recording for this lecture is now available on our Vimeo! vimeo.com/1142407067
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Seit heute ist die Verlängerung bis 2028 offiziell ...
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Seit heute ist die Verlängerung bis 2028 offiziell ...
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On Dec. 8th and 9th, speakers at the upcoming ERC-Synergy MiDRASH Conference will include our very own Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Dr. Rahel Fronda, Dr. Joseph O’Hara, and Caleb Klein.
You can tune-in to the conference via zoom:
campus-condorcet.zoom.us/j/8346073641...
#conference #Oxford
You can tune-in to the conference via zoom:
campus-condorcet.zoom.us/j/8346073641...
#conference #Oxford
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
On Dec. 8th and 9th, speakers at the upcoming ERC-Synergy MiDRASH Conference will include our very own Prof. Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Dr. Rahel Fronda, Dr. Joseph O’Hara, and Caleb Klein.
You can tune-in to the conference via zoom:
campus-condorcet.zoom.us/j/8346073641...
#conference #Oxford
You can tune-in to the conference via zoom:
campus-condorcet.zoom.us/j/8346073641...
#conference #Oxford
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I am reading Noyekh Mishkowsky's delightful account of his trip to the Yokohama seaside in ~1920. He likes:
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I am reading Noyekh Mishkowsky's delightful account of his trip to the Yokohama seaside in ~1920. He likes:
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
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Published this month:
Special Issue on Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis (Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies) @ read.dukeupress.edu/sungkyun-jou...
Special Issue on Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis (Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies) @ read.dukeupress.edu/sungkyun-jou...
Volume 25 Issue 2 | Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Published this month:
Special Issue on Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis (Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies) @ read.dukeupress.edu/sungkyun-jou...
Special Issue on Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis (Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies) @ read.dukeupress.edu/sungkyun-jou...
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Gave myself a challenge to see how much Hungarian I can learn in 45 days. I have to report, all things about its difficulties are overblown. The only real issue is the absence of loan words makes vocabulary a bit tougher. But because Ferenc Kazinczy was smart, vocab works well once you get stems.
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Gave myself a challenge to see how much Hungarian I can learn in 45 days. I have to report, all things about its difficulties are overblown. The only real issue is the absence of loan words makes vocabulary a bit tougher. But because Ferenc Kazinczy was smart, vocab works well once you get stems.
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Hocam Talat Tekin'in bütün makalelerini (ilk yayım yerlerindeki şekliyle) PDF olarak 2008'deki armağan içerisine CD olarak koymuştuk.
TDA genel ağ sayfasına da koymuştuk. Hocamın ölümünden 10 yıl sonra bu sayfayı duyurmak isterim:
turkdilleri.org/turkdilleri/...
Kamu yararına. Akçasal amacı yok.
TDA genel ağ sayfasına da koymuştuk. Hocamın ölümünden 10 yıl sonra bu sayfayı duyurmak isterim:
turkdilleri.org/turkdilleri/...
Kamu yararına. Akçasal amacı yok.
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Hocam Talat Tekin'in bütün makalelerini (ilk yayım yerlerindeki şekliyle) PDF olarak 2008'deki armağan içerisine CD olarak koymuştuk.
TDA genel ağ sayfasına da koymuştuk. Hocamın ölümünden 10 yıl sonra bu sayfayı duyurmak isterim:
turkdilleri.org/turkdilleri/...
Kamu yararına. Akçasal amacı yok.
TDA genel ağ sayfasına da koymuştuk. Hocamın ölümünden 10 yıl sonra bu sayfayı duyurmak isterim:
turkdilleri.org/turkdilleri/...
Kamu yararına. Akçasal amacı yok.
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The candidates for @modernlanguage.bsky.social delegate representing Less Commonly Taught Language Programs are professors of... Italian and Portuguese. 😵💫
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The candidates for @modernlanguage.bsky.social delegate representing Less Commonly Taught Language Programs are professors of... Italian and Portuguese. 😵💫
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Year-long celebration of Manx to start in January
Year-long celebration of Manx Gaelic to start in January
Blein ny Gaelgey will see Manx "heard, seen and shared more than ever before", organisers say.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Year-long celebration of Manx to start in January
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700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly th...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online
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Call for Papers
ICHoLS XVII (23–27 August 2027), Niterói (Rio de Janeiro)
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#Histlx
ICHoLS XVII (23–27 August 2027), Niterói (Rio de Janeiro)
🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/26/c...
#Histlx
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Call for Papers
ICHoLS XVII (23–27 August 2027), Niterói (Rio de Janeiro)
🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/26/c...
#Histlx
ICHoLS XVII (23–27 August 2027), Niterói (Rio de Janeiro)
🔗 hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/26/c...
#Histlx
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#Event | TJHTalks: Power of Words. The ABC of Jewish Languages - discussion will explore the richness and diversity of Jewish languages | POLIN and the Taube Center, Warsaw
#Yiddish #Hebrew #Ladino #JudeoArabic
November 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm CET
Link: taubecenter.org/48hnet/
#Yiddish #Hebrew #Ladino #JudeoArabic
November 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm CET
Link: taubecenter.org/48hnet/
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#Event | TJHTalks: Power of Words. The ABC of Jewish Languages - discussion will explore the richness and diversity of Jewish languages | POLIN and the Taube Center, Warsaw
#Yiddish #Hebrew #Ladino #JudeoArabic
November 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm CET
Link: taubecenter.org/48hnet/
#Yiddish #Hebrew #Ladino #JudeoArabic
November 26, 2025 | 8:00 pm CET
Link: taubecenter.org/48hnet/