
/ɕɐɕɑːŋkɐh/, /kesaʊŋkʊs/ | Interested in Indo-Aryan, Romanic & Germanic linguistics, Typography, and Cartography | 🎓 BU'25 @bualumni
Joined September 2023
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Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
It's odd to me how China gets (rightfully) mocked so much for having the whole country share one timezone, but we don't extend the same treatment to continental Europe.
Spain, France, and the Benelux countries are just blatantly in the wrong timezone.
Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
On a related note, if you loved Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata and want to work on your Ancient Greek using the Italian Athenaze text, you can download it for free here:
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PS: The link works and isn’t sketchy — I tested it.
¿How do languages written in the #Latinscript, that have case declensions for their nouns, capitalize proper nouns in their different cases?
Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
Just realized that Hinduism in Southeast Asia is probably a good analog for what Near Eastern and Northwest European paganism would look like if the rise of monotheism didn’t put a stop to Hellenistic syncretism
Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
Mozambique is such an unserious country because why do they have an open book crossed by a hoe and an AK-47 on their flag?
Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
A few words in NIA languages insert unetymological r-s in anticipation of (historical) retroflexes.
Hindi karōṛ ‘10⁷’ for **kōṛ < Skt. kōṭi-
Punjabi tarkʰāṛ̃ ‘carpenter’ for **takkʰāṛ̃ < Skt. takṣāṇa-
Bhadrawahi ḍ͡ḷʰukkʰ ‘hunger’ for **bʰukkʰ < Skt. bubʰukṣā
You'll love #Portuguese then; you need only remember Saturday & Sunday.
Domingo "Sunday"
Segunda-feira "Monday" (second fair)
Terça-feira "Tuesday" (third ”)
Quarta-feira "Wednesday" (fourth ”)
Quinta-feira "Thursday" (fifth ”)
Sexta-feira "Friday" (sixth ”)
Sábado "Saturday"
Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
#Shina
ba̍aṣ ‘language’ < Skt. bʰāṣā
baa̍ṣ ‘lung’ < Skt. bāṣpáḣ ‘vapor’
ba̍al ‘hair’ < Skt. vā́laḣ
baa̍l ‘boy’ < Skt. bāláḣ
Śaśāṅkaḥ ⁜ 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 retweeted
BBC editor trying so hard to avoid American English that they hypercorrected into a novel spelling
🚨 Cool map alert: Placement of the Euro Symbol € in the European Union (from Reddit)
It seems Belgium uses both €10,0 and 10,0 €. The former in Flanders and the latter in Wallonia.
My country food tier list for all the national cuisines I have tried so far.
[S = Excellent, A = Very Good, B = Good, C = Average, D = Will not try again]

































