:BoostOK: Did you know that the word "trans" is Latin for "across"? So when you say that you're transgender, you're saying that "you've changed across gender", and I think that's a beautiful way to look at it. :blobfox_heart_trans:
Is there any difference in how Russian and Ukranian use Cyrillic? That is if I do the Duolingo Russian unit until I can read Cyrillic, with the goal of being able to read Russian place names, will I be able to accurately read Ukranian place names as well?
I've been studying #Czech, which shares a ton of #phonemes and #vocabulary with other #Slavic languages, but is written with a Latin-based character set (I say "Latin-based" because Czech uses an assortment of #diacritic marks as #pronunciation modifiers on an otherwise standard #Latin character set).
On several occasions, I've come across a #Russian or #Ukrainian word written in its native #Cyrillic script followed by a #phonetic pronunciation guide using Latin characters, and consequently recognized the word as one that is shared with Czech. Those moments of recognition are just pure #linguistic glee.
April 28th, 11 CE—#OnThisDay#OTD Julius Lepos writes to the banker Archibius, telling him to pay 1,953 silver drachmae into his account with the the banker Harpocration. In #Greek written with #Latin script.
Before #Rome, the main #civilization in northwest #Italian peninsula was the #Etruscans. The population were absorbed into Rome as citizens and brought the proto-Greek alphabet. This became Rome’s #Latin alphabet after it was reversed in order and direction.
They called themselves the #Rasenna. It’s easy to read their name if you read the proto-Greek letters right to left or in a mirror image.
Introduction 1 HELLO WORLD
In Glamorgan in #Wales there is a mountain which is cool and dim and damp and old. It has wizened old walls covered in moss, and tall, gnarled trees bristling with ivy. There are footpaths crisscrossing and circling about that mountain so that we can check on it; #mountains are not entirely trustworthy you see. I am one of the people living on that mountain and, of course, I walk across it as often as I can on my lunch breaks! ⛰️
#Introduction 2. Follow me for...
I work as an Associate Lecturer. When not teaching or walking, I research the #history of #wildlife and #wildflowers and I'll post about that here. I've just finished writing my 'Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife', out in June and this month I have been working on a research project on pine trees and yew trees in #MedievalWales, and a translation of an #earlymodern Scottish natural history text out of #Latin. 🌲📚 #AmWriting#CelticStudies
This year has been a reminder to tend to the little spaces on the internet I call my own with more care, starting with https://indiastreetlettering.com/.
I set up this website years ago to collect photographs I take of street lettering around the country, but I’ve been terrible at keeping it up-to-date. That changes now. And if I can keep myself motivated, I’ll share a picture from it here every week 🤞🏼
These two signs for the same building are in gold, on ground-level, and most importantly, completely and utterly dismissive of visually matching Devanagari and Latin scripts. I wrote a little bit about them in my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/05e0957f4a95/typographic-eye3-cp-type-tour a few months ago.
Oscillating tween trad Latin sounds like Mariachi to rap rock & metal influence this is Molotov from Mexico City.
I had their debut album in the car & used to drive to it quite a bit. Mix of diff styles kept things interesting in days of only 6disc CD changers all the way back in the boot of the car. This'll be later 90s. Fair warning their lyrics are often NSFW if you have any Spanish.