Harold Anthony Lloyd
@lloydesq.bsky.social
Prof. of Law, Wake Forest. Law & Humanities including Semiotics, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, Emotion, Virtue, & Legal Education Reform. Lampoon Langdell. Also commercial transactions & verse & translation. https://haroldanthonylloyd.blogspot.com
A fun history of "soccer" versus "football." Also, it reports, "Wealthy students [in the late 1800s] had 'a habit of shortening words and adding "-er" to the end' to make slang terms. For example: breakfast becomes brekker, rugby became rugger." Does anyone still say "brekker" for breakfast?
Lynne Murphy@lynneguist.bsky.social · 7d agoI invited students (esp those who took English in the United States this year) to guest-blog for Separated by a Common Language. Elize Holyoake took up the invitation & wrote an ace post on why and where people say 'football' v 'soccer': separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2026/07/foot...
We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point
Wish our national journalists were at least half as good as these student journalists.
Kelly Wooten@kwooten.bsky.social · last wk.Great reporting from our student journalists at the Duke Chronicle on increases for the most highly paid Duke employees in the wake of unnecessary massive layoffs: www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
960th anniversary of the #BattleofHastings is October 14th as first semester 1Ls are hopefully learning of Law French, roots of fee simple, domesday book, curia regis, & all the rest. #BayeuxTapestry marks this milestone in the #BritishMuseum from Sept. till next July. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Five key images from the Bayeux Tapestry, and the story they tell
It depicts a medieval game of thrones as William the Conquerer did battle with King Harold to rule England.
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"modern diversity may represent only a small share of humanity’s linguistic capabilities" #linguistics #philosophy #langsky www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
Three Millennia Ago, Humans May Have Spoken Thousands More Languages Than We Have Today, During a Linguistic 'Golden Age'
A new study suggests linguistic diversity reached its peak between 1000 B.C.E. and 1000 C.E. before declining
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This straightforard up vs down rhetoric should be a Democratic staple. Powerful when they use it.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2w ago🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is billionaires: Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren’t defunding our schools. Immigrants aren’t cutting taxes for themselves + their rich friends… It’s billionaires & their puppet politicians.”
Sending much love to our 🇨🇦 Canadian 🇨🇦 neighbors from a Sane American in Seattle, Washington!!
" #Alito cannot seem to vote against anything the administration does." Unleashed by his own brand of "practical #originalism." Gift Article No Paywall www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Essay | Samuel Alito, a MAGA-Friendly Justice With a New Conservative Legal Vision
Samuel Alito is fusing establishment conservatism and the Trump movement into a new legal doctrine. His approach to the law may outlast them both.
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Marie Claire actually left a prompt from an AI in one of their recent articles. While there’s still some great journalists and publications left, this is utterly shocking. No wonder I’m trying to pivot.
It's pride month and I'm proud of my church. #Episcopalian "In 2026, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of our church affirming that LGBTQ+ people have a full and equal claim to the love, acceptance, and pastoral care of the church." www.episcopalchurch.org/organization...
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ON THIS PAGE For decades, LGBTQ+ Episcopalians and allies have worked to make The Episcopal Church a place of belonging and inclusion. We have prayed, studied, and discerned, and in doing so, we have ...
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#Trump didn't just botch the reline & drive cars on it, he also took out the purifiers: "by the time the purification systems were reinstalled 36 hours later, enormous algae blooms were starting to spread unchecked, turning the water green" Gifted please share. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job
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Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB
unstated antimetabole nice twist on classical #rhetoric
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is brilliant.... #BookSky
Very interesting but not an either/or. Make the "look up" argument in plain English PLUS fundamental change PLUS hold prior bad actors accountable. Likely last chance. Won't survive repeats of Obam-Biden policy failures (no real univ. healcare etc) or failed justice (Great Recession/Trump scandals).
The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 2mo agoRead the article here or read the thread below. www.editorialboard.com/make-the-bad...
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
Slow-motion capture of hand-feeding a male Northern Cardinal. TT: Ugo Troccoli
A surrender treaty at Versailles, you say?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump: "It's signed. I signed it in Versailles. I just signed it."
I love this painting and I have no idea who the artist is.
Warnock: Right before they passed that ugly bill that cut $1 trillion out of medicaid, the Speaker of the House joined with other legislators and said a prayer, and then they went and voted for that bill. I just want to know what was in that prayer.