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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, though also e.g. a good deal of the Hanoverian archive was destroyed by floods in 1946.

There's also the possibility that these courses were just more popular with Hungarian students, but there are no registration lists so it's impossible to know

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, good ol' Transylvanian Saxons!

Mine are a bit more straightforward. I'm tracing notes from certain lecture courses at 18thC Göttingen and it seems more survive in Hungarian church archives (taken by Hungarians) than Germany. My guess is they landed there by the 19th and had an easier 20th

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

I visited Budapest as a tourist in 2017 and after five days 0 people understood my attempts to say either Kérem or Köszönöm. 🥲

Hopefully I just need basic vocabulary and a sense of how the words fit together so that I don't have to laboriously type every single word into google

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

Erm, big question, but has anyone got any experience learning Hungarian?

Looks like I'll be spending a fair bit of time in Hungarian archives (with German and Latin sources, thankfully). I don't have any illusions of becoming fluent, but I should probably try to get some basic skills

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

There should! I get the sense there's a standard format for this in German that's probably taught from high school, but which is entirely inscrutable from the outside.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

When applications say they want x number of pages, what do they mean?

I'm never sure if it's single/double spacing? size 10/12/56? Times New Roman? Arial? Wingdings!?

I get word counts can create Wetbewerbsvorteile for certain languages, but I'm genuinely never sure how to go about formatting

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Sybille Münch @munchsybille.bsky.social · 4d

Call for the 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies @fluchtforschung.bsky.social : "Eroding Solidarity? Forced Migration, Protection, and Inclusion in a World Beyond Order", September 28 – 30, 2026 | University of Hildesheim | Germany
www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/zbi/nwff2...

University of Hildesheim | Zentrum für Bildungsintegration | 6th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies

www.uni-hildesheim.de

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

*1648

Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

Reading "his salary was 200 forint, two barrels of wine, 6 meters of rye, and a free apartment" about a guy who died in 1808.

And people try telling me the eighteenth century doesn't count as early modern.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

IMO we need to recognize this stuff when he does it because it's a lot more dangerous than just being completely oblivious to chronology

Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

This post is doing the rounds as evidence of Trump's stupidity, but he is *precisely* saying that Biden controlled the FBI even though he, Trump, was president.

It's the same deep-state conspiracy guff he's been pushing for years to justify restructuring the civil service around loyalty to him.

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 1d

Impressive work by Biden to control the FBI while Trump was President.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! I get back on the 22nd and will be trying everything I can then

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

Can't believe Macron just won't let this guy quit

Adam Driver yelling "every day I wake up" and crying except it's Lecornu unable to quite being PM of france

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. It doesn't help that I can't even figure out if I'm eligible via the public system because it simply doesn't recognize my health number. 🥲

(If anyone who understands the Italian system is reading this and can offer any advice that'd be greatly appreciated!)

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

I would if I could, but I live in Italy and you can't do it privately (at least as far as I've been able to figure out – the health service is nightmarish to figure out).

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

Le Président!? What the hell is le président!?

Simpsons meme of Moe throwing Barney out only for Barney tor eturn behind him, exceot its Lecornu throwing Macron out only for Macron to reappear behind him

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

Even vaccinated covid is more lethal too, afaik, but a lot of people are extremely committed to thinking it's not 🫠

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

It's baffling how much easier it is to get a flu shot than a covid booster. In the UK, Germany, and Italy I can get a flu shot with no questions asked, maybe paying a small (entirely worthwhile) fee. But for covid I have to jump through a bunch of different hoops, register with special services, etc

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

Also reckons a US-led invasion is the right answer to Maduro 🙃

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 3d

Template from Simpsons episode where Darryl Strawberry tells Homer he's better than him, but Homer is the Nobel Peace Prize and Strawberry is the other Nobel Prizes

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 4d

I suppose it's good to know wine was significantly weaker, back then. But still, I wouldn't fancy my chances in those Provence backroads!

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 5d

"Overusing the em-dash is a telltale sign of AI"

18th and 19th century German philosophers (also me, a serial em-dash overuser):

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 5d

I'm awaiting an important package from UPS. It should've arrived yesterday. They said my address doesn't exist. We confirmed the address and were told it would arrive today. The same thing happened.

Now they say I can collect it in-store, except it'll arrive on 08.17.25 – a date that doesn't exist.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 5d

The plausible outcome, however, is of course "I will be a servant."

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 5d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 6d

Huge fan of short books (academic or not). Basically I am 10x as likely to have time to read it carefully if it's <200 pages.

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