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

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 · 12h

Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

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

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

Are there no No Frills supermarkets in Newfoundland?

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 22h

"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 · 23h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

Scottish pancakes, I believe.

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Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social · 2d

Saw your dad last night, he was at the

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 2d

Gay Avenue Pump Station

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 3d

It's a shame that my bouzouki is in a storage locker on the other side of the world on another continent right now.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 3d

It'd be really interesting to see if more normative sources like Atticist lexica treat these differently from sources like Hesychius who collect all manner of random stuff, but a lot of this stuff is really outside of my area of expertise.

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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 3d

I have a suuuuuuuper niche question about tense usage in Ancient Greek lexicography who do I know who might know stuff about this???? All pointers and bibliography suggestions greatly received!!! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 3d

Granted, Hesychius has some of these conjugated forms *probably* because they're *presumably* real forms from actual texts (that exist or allegedly once existed) so that might be biasing that actually occurs there.

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 3d

For what it's worth, I just did quick and rough count at the verb forms from Hesychius in my project dataset and of the stuff there there were 36 (pres. & aor.) infinitives versus 29 conjugated forms (mostly 3.sg. forms) and 4 participles.

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 3d

Ahh, that's useful to know!

Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 3d

They can, apparently. Which obviated my factfinding trip back to Canada to talk to some dairy farmers myself. So much for that grant proposal idea.

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