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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 11h

wouldja look at that

Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 14h

I have been struggling to think of a charitable interpretation of this one. I feel like speaking professional-ese means intentionally downplaying health issues, even when they affect your work. Awful

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 14h

And, even better, here is a nice open-access edition of the Spanish, newly typeset!
www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/brevisi...

Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias / Bartolomé de las Casas ; edición y notas de José Miguel Martínez Torrejón; prólogo y cronología Gustavo Adolfo Zuluaga Hoyos

Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. Otra ed.: Medellín, Universidad de Antioquía, 2011 (Biblioteca Clásica para Jóvenes Lectores)

www.cervantesvirtual.com

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 14h

The account is from Bartolomé de las Casas' 1542 book Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias.

You can read a 1689 English translation for free on Project Gutenberg:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/20321

or for free on Kindle:
www.amazon.com/dp/B004UJRUD2/

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 15h

I remember now that the other show I was thinking of is The IT Crowd which *is* in London, so that does make sense.

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 16h

I get to fly a plane and shoot a spinning Goron at a giant volcano monster, and he dies in three hits?? count me in

Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 16h

ok so I have just been enjoying the map and farming items for weeks and weeks, but I did some main quest stuff and it was so, so cool (YunoboHQ to Fire Temple)

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 16h

I unironically used the phrase "football pitch" ⚽️ with another American the other day and I realized: we had both been abroad more than ten years and couldn't care less whether we use the American or British term for something.

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 16h

update: this song is now permanently stuck in my head

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 16h

wait. The Big Game (TOTK) is, actually, even better than the Small Game (BOTW)...?

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe just a cartoon thing

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

Setting is intentionally vanilla town, not urban

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

In America, if a show has a regional setting, like NYC or Texas, everyone is kinda gonna have some accent from that region, unless some reason is given.

But in British TV it's just like "here's a Scottish character. Why not?"

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

Why is it that British television seems to employ all the accents?Is internal migration just assumed?

I'm watching a cartoon and the characters are—northern, southern, Lake District, Scottish ...

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

I would just say "the ads". But "sales flyers" would be the same thing.

(I'm from Texas, and have only been to Winnipeg once 😇)

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

I believe I already use "theirself" for singular they?

See also: Ourself, y'allself (for singular y'all!)

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

exactly

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 1d

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

I think we've talked before about my opinion that al-Bahrain is not a genuine dual.

I can't look at data right now but genuine dual place names are pretty uncommon in the whole Arabian Peninsula. IIRC several are land features like al-Jabalayn (in Saudi).

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James Bejon @jamesbejon.bsky.social · 1d

THREAD. Some thoughts on (apparent) dual suffixes in Biblical names.

Relevant comparative data gratefully received.

As I understand it, dual-esque suffixes in names like Ephraim (אֶפְרַיִם) and are thought to go back to */aym/ and are (often) viewed as secondary developments.

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

Spanish for "of the city"

Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

I shouldn't ever post about the history of English but sometimes I just need to be cut down a notch

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

** Oops. I was going to say some are based on possessives ...
Some are based on object pronouns ...
Some are even based on subject pronouns ... ?!

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

Thus:

"To thine own self be true" (Hamlet)

"Prove your own selves" (2 Cor 13:5)

"Go on with your bad self"

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus side note:

The optional "self / selves" element was not attached to the pronoun in Old English.

It became attached in Middle English, but later, after reflexives were formed with possessive pronouns, you could add a modifier in between the possessive and the "self" ...

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