I hate that my work is relevant here, but if you want to read an autopsy of the process of imagining fake women, go read the first chapter here, "Impossible Women", it's open access Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF - University of California Press share.google/rGRTskbSYmmz...

Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF

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The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”

Read Emily Wilson’s review in full on the Internet Archive (Sorry for the inconvenience with our website: efforts ongoing.) web.archive.org/web/20260727...

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

well, well, well, the dick measuring context in the Romanian parliament tonight surely was something to behold! ended badly for the ones who started it, who were stupid enough to think the far right can be an accommodating bedfellow. and got royally screwed.

Great news! Yes, do come to Vienna in June!

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS@boddice.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Who wouldn't want to come to Vienna in June?

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps, une isoglosse ne fait pas un dialecte

going places, telling stories. next week in #Cluj #Kolozsvár #Klausenburg, I'll talk about Old #Romanian paratexts (possibly the oldest such texts extant) in a 16th.-century liturgical manuscript from #Transylvania. #vernacularization; diachronic #sociolinguistics; #dialectology www.inst-puscariu.ro

The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either

I don't know whether it is the #1 Catherine O'Hara accomplishment but the fact that she invented a manner of speaking that no other person in human history has ever attempted for Schitts Creek and made it seem realistic that her character would talk that way felt like a comedy miracle to me

today is treat day 🎂 so i'm treating myself to some roman cursive

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I am glad I am not in #Romania today, so that I do not have to take part in the masquerade of the official day of mourning for Ion Iliescu, one of the most toxic politicians who ever ruled my country. he is finally gone, but the stench will linger. hotnews.ro/interviu-in-...

INTERVIU. În ziua înmormântării lui Ion Iliescu, mesaj de la „femeia în rochie albastră”, cea devenită simbol după ce a fost bătută de mineri. „Mă uit în jur și văd tineri de 40 de ani cu idei anti-de...

O fotografie este emblematică pentru mineriada din 13-15 iunie 1990. O femeie îmbrăcată într-o rochie albastră este luată pe sus de mai mulți mineri cu bâte

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I moved to Britain in 2005 when people were up in arms about ID cards like ones that exist in most European countries being an intolerable affront to liberty and now apparently they want a world where you have to scan your face to use the internet and your genitals to use the loo

Considering applying to CEU in the coming academic year? We're having online info sessions (via zoom) over the coming months. More sessions to follow in October, November and December. #studyinvienna historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

one particular reason for me to rejoice this morning, beyond the triumph of decency over thuggery in the presidential elections in #Romanian yesterday are the results in my home county, #Timiș, in #Banat: 58.37 % for the pro-European candidate, Nicușor Dan, a spectacular increase from just...

I am *so sick* of generative language models being used for studying anything other than how generative language models work.

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Scholarships for MA in Historical Studies (one-year) at Central European University

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"Bună dzăua lu' Aźun!" in my #Banat village, today is a special day. early in the morning groups of children, called on this occasion 'pițărăi' [pi.t͡səˈrəj], go from house to house chanting the following ritual text (my voice in the videoclip). www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLdv...

December is the only month named after a saint in the traditional #Romanian calendar: 'îndreá' [ɨn'dre̯a] < Latin 'Andrea(s)' (cf. Albanian 'shënëndre' "St. Andrew " & "December"), whose feast (30 November) helps kick-start the last month of the year. alternative names...

a week from today, I will be in lovely #Bratislava to give an invited lecture on "Multilingual Elites and the Impact of Language Contact in 17th-century Transylvania" in the series "Reči o reči" organized by Peter Benka and Ivana Lukáč Labancová at the Department of Slovak...

...and also on how to find those who committed it:)

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · 3y ago

This Wednesday @relicsclerics.bsky.social comes to Erfurt to tell us everything about theft in a late antique city!

that feeling when you've just pressed the 'send' button to send off an overdue article at the same time as you get an e-mail from the editor to remind you it is overdue. priceless! 🤓😃 #linguistics #dialectology #Romanian #Banat

so, this happened today. thank you to the organizers and especially to the amazing audience for a truly exhilarating Q & A session after my presentation! I'm still buzzing. 😃🤓 details: tinyurl.com/3u4593ad

"अहं ते पितास्मि" (ahám te pitā́ ásmi) ~ Darth Veda

don't miss the chance to come and join us at our new department! info on application procedure, deadlines, and everything else available at the link below.

Department of Historical Studies at CEU@historicalstudies.bsky.social · 3y ago

Applications are now open for 2024/ 25. Study with us next year for an MA or PhD! history.ceu.edu/ma-programs-...

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#Romanian traditional calendar calls the month beginning tomorrow 'Brumărél' [bru.mə'rel], a noun formed from 'Brumar' "November" with the diminutive suffix -el. both go back to 'brumă' "(hoar) frost," descendant of Lat. 'bruma' "winter (cold)." let's prepare for Frosty's little bro! ❄️ 🥶

Bluesky users handing out invite codes to Twitter users, 1614.