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Timely reminder that most of the people relegating WW2 right now essentially believe this
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>town named “Rosaryville”
>1 Catholic church
>17 Baptist churches
What did Maryland mean by this
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Few know this but there’s a church in Virginia so old it has genuine Gothic architecture and a rood screen
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@hope_pead
“I love Hitler and Nietzsche but I had to reconsider my support after finding out they supported Martin Luther”
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Big Proto-Indo-European studies doesn’t want you to know this
The speakers of Proto-Indo-European were just prehistoric cowboys
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Makes perfect sense “deer” used to just mean “animal”. No other way to describe them, deer are the most animal of all time. Think of an animal. You just thought of a deer. Idiot.
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“When my priest informed me it was time to conceive a child, I was filled with dread. Fortunately, he arranged a pre-coital remembrance service for original sin, and a post-coital confession and absolution, in case at any point during copulation I had desired my wife sexually.”
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TradCaths trying to figure out how to pin the French Revolution on Protestantism
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You’ve already seen:
- Anglican (Roman Catholic)
- Anglican (Reformed)
- Anglican (Charismatic)
and even
- Anglican (Orthodox)
But you’ve never debated a guy like me
- Anglican (Lutheran)
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Whoever is adding Ket cognates to Navajo Wiktionary pages is an absolute king
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Deep America lore: highly regional names for streams
- ‘brook’ in NE is also common in the Midlands & West Country
- ‘branch’ (South) and ‘run’ (Midatlantic) are unique Americanisms
- ‘creek’ (US also ‘crick’) means ‘saltwater inlet’ in UK but ‘stream’ in N America, Australia, NZ
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@depthsofwiki
There’s a classic text-based RPG based on this called The Gostak. It’s very frustrating since all the content words are meaningless, so you need to make a dictionary as you play
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@uncle_deluge
Lard is actually the best option for pie crusts, better than butter. It doesn’t actually have a super meaty flavor, not weird to use it for sweet dishes
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Ok seriously but what kind of genitive is “Lord of the Rings”?
Possessive? he owns them?
Objective? he’s ruler over them?
Subjective? he made them?
Material? he’s made of rings?
Partitive? he’s a ring, among them?
Crime? he’s charged for making them?
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“So anyway guys I thought we’d have a productive conversation about the position of Jews in the Church”
“No Jew has ever converted to Christianity”
“That isn’t very charitable but please continue”
“St Himmler lend me your vril to defeat this Calvinist Jewsuit demon…”
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@Varangian_Tagma
“OMG the Byzantines were racist”
“Digenis’ father was a Syrian emir ‘not black like the Ethiopians but fair [ξανθός] and handsome’”
“Wha.. what?”
“Luckily he repented of his heathen ways”
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hoctua hoctuae
hoctuae hoctuarum
hoctuae hoctuis
hoctuam hoctuas
hoctua hoctuis
ὁκτυῖα ὁκτυῖαι
ὁκτυίας ὁκτυιῶν
ὁκτυίᾳ ὁκτυίαις
ὁκτυῖαν ὁκτυίας
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At this point YouTube is trying to convince me Tolkien hated EVERYTHING. What the hell did this man enjoy then? The original chudjak doomer
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>pray your leg paralysis away at age 12
>roll up to Indonesia knowing nothing about it (the last missionaries were killed, maybe eaten)
>translate the entire New Testament into Batak
>convert 180,000 people
The aura is insane
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@uncle_deluge
The Amerimutt meme is hilarious to me because the average white American is genetically 99.7% European. Even if it’s about mixed ethnicities, most are like 1/4 English, 1/4 German, 1/4 Irish and maybe some Italian, Polish, Scandinavian—hardly a wide variety
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Wholesome PIE fact: there were two roots for ‘fart’, one for softly and one for loudly
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“Irish spelling is logical”: only true because of extensive 20th century reform. Before that you had stuff like beirbhiughadh /bʲɛˈɾʲuː/
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Aleut word of the day: anatax̂ “Japanese person”, from Japanese あなた anata “you”
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Ok genuine question: when TradCaths decide to convert, why is it always to Orthodoxy, which has a completely different theological basis, instead of like Lutheranism or Anglicanism, which are basically just Catholicism without the Papacy?
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Evil post, but it’s sending me that all the replies and quotes is TradCaths accidentally quoting the vows from the Anglican marriage rite in the BCP. Total Angloid victory
“Dude… did you seriously just… divorce your wife with stage 3 breast cancer? Not cool bro.”
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Why is “the Church of England is the successor to the medieval Church in England” so hard for people to wrap their minds around? There’s extremely obvious institutional continuity on every level
The Church of England is the established Christian church in England.
Our roots go back to the time of the Roman Empire, when the church came into existence in what was then the province of Britain.
Find out more about our history at .
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@kalinah
@sorefilled
Who would like my 100 page scan of a book about Aleut naming conventions
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“So as you can see, one ought only to offer St Joseph the Assumed Savior of the Savior preprotodulia, not the subhyperdulia reserved for other acquaintances of the Blessed Virgin’s”
“SIR! Your Josephology is much too low. Excommunicated, anathema, and damned to Hell!”
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@Endymion1989
St Ignatius, Montana, on the Flathead rez. National Bison Range, 19th c Jesuit chapel with frescoes, Amish country store
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One of the more common first names in Ancient Greece. was Φίλιππος (Phílippos) “guy who really likes horses”. Dudes love moving around n stuff what can you say
before there were trucks, little boys couldn't be into trucks...what were they into? carriages? doesn't go nearly as hard
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“BAP’s works are actually a composite of four sources: a primary Pseudo-Nietzschian source (likely Bloom); a secondary Eugenic source; and additional H (homosexual) and G (gymbro) sources for sayings, all compiled by a semi-literate Romanian editor”
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“Why invade?”
“You recall Vikings founded Moscow, yes?”
“What?”
“In 1070, Gytha, King Harald’s daughter, married Vladimir II of Kiev, passing
throne of England to Ukraine. Russia, as the Vikings’ rightful heir, must end what it began at Lindisfarne and crush the Anglo-Saxons”
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I can’t be the only person who fortifies /s/ to [ts] and also /ʃ/ to [tʃ] after /n/ right? Like -nce and -ntion are regularly [-nts] and [-tʃn] for me, such that “cents” and “sense” are homophones and “mention” is [ˈmɛn.tʃn]
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@atlanticesque
Maybe YOU haven’t heard of it. I, Hailie Selassie’s strongest ferenji, know quite well the different between the noble Amhara and the scurrilous Oromo
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The 21st century is Burmese rebels using elephants to transport 3D printed guns to the front
Since this blew up I'll note that elephants still turn up in modern warfare -- for transport and logistics, not combat. Best example in the 2020s are the elephants of the Kachin Independence Army in northern Myanmar (pictured). 🧵
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not all words with etymological digamma in Homer are treated like they do. because of ϝόχος.
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genuine as in not neo-Gothic, England was doing Gothic late enough and this church is old enough that this is real Gothic. one of the only genuine Gothic buildings in the Americas (since the Spanish didn’t build much)
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Remember when John Adams went to a Roman Catholic mass and described it like some awful Lovecraftian ritual beyond comprehension
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Does this teenage coaler know what “carbo” means? He literally named himself “coal” in Latin lmao
The Catholic founding father was so memorable and influential that you called him the wrong name and had to delete the post 💀😂😂
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The European mind cannot comprehend the $47 steel longsword from Home Depot
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>“wow look at this quirky feature of English! it’s so un-Germanic and funky!”
>look inside
>exists in Swedish and Dutch
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I celebrate Leif Erickson Day instead of Columbus Day, not out of care for natives but strictly out of anti-Italian bias and my own petty ethnocentrism
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50% of the responses are “TradCaths don’t believe this” and 50% are TradCaths wholeheartedly agreeing with it. Welp.
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First a Habsburg celebrates a Puritan religious festival, now the Vatican puts up Luther’s tree in St Peter’s Square… total Protestant cultural victory. What’s next, they start wearing clerical collars and singing hymns? We’re so back
We're setting up our Christmas tree!
Workers began installing this year's tree - a 28-meter spruce from the Piedmontese town of Macra - in St Peter's Square on Thursday. The Vatican Christmas tree will be formally inaugurated during a lighting ceremony on December 9th.
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The worst part is that this is regular, from Latin “oculos”:
/oklos/ > /ɔːʎos/ > /weʎ(t)s/ > /weuts/ > /jeuts/ > /jø/ “yeux”
(weu- regularly became jeu-, compare *lweu > lieu, *jweu > jeu)
Singular is also regular, something like
/oklus/ > /o(i)ʎ/ > /ueʎ/ > /øiʎ/ > /øj/ “œil”
We don’t talk anywhere near enough about the fact that in French….
THE PLURAL OF ŒIL IS YEUX
THEY DON’T EVEN SHARE ANY LETTERS???
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there are also terms from other languages:
- ‘kill’ is from Dutch, used across areas of Dutch settlement (NY, NJ, east PA)
- ‘bayou’ is French and used along the Mississippi
- ‘arroyo’ and ‘rio’ are both Spanish and track pretty well where Spanish settlers had lived
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Deep Indo-Aryan lore: Romani shows massive influence from Byzantine Greek on levels way beyond vocab, including borrowing 1) the only productive noun declension class 2) nearly half of its numbers and 3) the 3SG morpheme
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NEVER DIAGNOSED
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@Halfamaninacan
@CosinChristian
i’m making fun of him specifically, not Catholic moral teaching on sex in general, which I respect. he has very weird views on sex
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Apparently Proto-Norse is actually attested (in Elder Futhark) on the Einang stone? Not really a proto-language then
It reads: [ᛖᚲ ᚷᛟ]ᛞᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ ᚱᚢᚾᛟ ᚠᚨᛁᚺᛁᛞᛟ/
(Ek go)ðagastiz runo faihido/(I, Go)dagastiz painted these runes
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He looks like a Lebanese Druze socialist politician assassinated by Bashar al-Assad in the Chouf mountains in 1977
I’m supposed to believe this man’s ancestors are from the Middle East?🤣
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The Amish have very fewer surnames and almost all of them are weird. Five most common are probably Yoder, Mast, Stutzman, Stoltzfus, and Hershberger, not a single one of which breaks the top 1,000 in Germany or Switzerland
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@Citizen09372364
Med politics: PM stealing €100B from the government, ousted, let off. Successor kidnapped by communist paramilitaries.
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Everyone knows “spiritual but not religious” people are insufferable but few know that the other way around (Episcopalians) is worse
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@uncle_deluge
no, post is wrong, Greek word for ape is πίθηκος píthēkos, also means dwarf or trickster, no relation to any Sanskrit word. Beekes say Pre-Greek
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@UpdatingOnRome
>get freed from slavery
>get to choose a new name
>immediately name yourself after Julius Caesar
I kneel, absolute kings
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Half of these are just traits of bad conlangs and the other half is just dumb. I literally do documentation for an endangered language and conlanging and the one does nothing to detract from the other. Go chastise the rose-planter for not being a corn-planter I guess
Here are 3 reasons why I hate conlangs:
(conlang = “constructed language”, an invented language like Dothraki or Klingon or Na’vi or Esperanto)
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“Liberalism began in 700 BC when the wicked Yahwist priests rejected all but one of the gods—atheism for all but one god is the root of all atheism”
“Blinded by bias! Liberalism is a perfidious Germanic phenomenon and began in 500 BC during the Scandinavian Battle Axe culture”
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Most Americans drop /r/ when there’s too many in one word (dissimilation). eg “su[r]prise”, “be[r]serk”, “gove[r]nor”, “pa[r]ticular”. But I’ve also heard people overcompensate by saying stuff like “fa[r]miliar”
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Somewhere deep beneath Brooklyn:
“I am a servant of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, wielder of the flame of Urim and Thumim! The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Sheol!”
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Coincidentally I’m reading Odyssey Book 11 in Greek rn and this is completely wrongheaded. Christianity made death a lot nicer, in most pagan religions it’s an awful eventuality
Charles Taylor makes the point that death wasn't actually terrifying until Christianity came on the scene. Before then, death was just something that happened, the next stage in a life after life. Did people look forward to it? No: it meant a diminished existence. But people
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Ok let’s play this game. Orthodox are “Orthodox Catholic”: claiming ancient doctrine and universality. Lutherans are “Evangelical Catholic”: claiming the Gospel and universality. You are “Roman Catholic”: claiming the Papacy and universality but NOT correct doctrine OR the Gospel
@carthvsianvs
It’s also fitting that the Catholic Church has the name “Catholic” whereas Protestants are named in reference to their rejection of the True Church, and Eastern and Oriental Orthodox implicitly admit their Church is not universal as their name is regional.
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In the Song of Roland, Muslims worship an unholy Trinity of Muhammad, Apollyon, and “Termagant”, in later works taken as their main god, then as a bullying stock character in plays, then mistaken for a woman on account of his long gown. So now “termagant” means a shrewish woman
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The Greeks actually did this themselves, they kept obsolete letters in their numbering system.
Digamma ϝ stood for /w/, but that sound was eventually dropped in all dialects but Doric (so it’s actually still around as /v/ in Tsakonian). It stood for 6 numerically
It's crazy that math is so committed to single letter variable names that it preferred to rope in the character sets of several other languages over expanding the namespace in any other way.
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Translated the Ring Poem into Aleut (Atkan dialect). Probably wrong in some places but I did check with a speaker
This morning I discovered a Middle Breton translation by
@Huaka
of JRR Tolkien's poem on the Rings of Power.
Inspired by this, I couldn't resist the temptation of laying my hands on a version of the same in Old Irish - one of the dark languages of the Earth if there ever was one.
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The minute someone invents a fedora meme for e-Orthodox converts the entire thing will dissolve like cotton candy in water
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@DigestTom
“To be deep in history is to cease to accept any Catholic historical claims whatsoever factually but to accept them metaphysically instead. You see, Peter retroactively BECAME infallible universal pontiff by infallible declaration ten centuries later”
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@bf_crane
The Seven are real to a degree. Mostly, prayers from the virtuous tend to be answered. Sansa prays to the Mother for the Hound not to rape her, it works. Davos prays to be saved when shipwrecked, it works. Catelyn prays in a small sept before Renky and Stannis fight, it works.
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Actually it was Wernher von Braun so jot that down
I’m the
#1
trending scientist in the world right now!
So today, I’ll tell you about the time in America when a group of elitists who worshipped Satan via sexual rituals, helped establish NASA’s Apollo program.
Trust the science.
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Not even remotely joking, the Declaration of Independence was written by a guy explicitly trying to reestablish “Saxon liberties” against wicked Norman feudalism. Jefferson even proposed we put Hengist and Horsa on our national seal
Guy who thinks the American Revolution was to finally throw off the Norman Yoke (me and Thomas Jefferson)
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Are people forgetting that “Latin America” as a term was invented by Napoleon III to justify French interventionism in the Americas? The whole point is to shoehorn French people into it
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>finally decode the Herculaneum papyri
>open up first one and start reading
>oh cool it’s Philodemus, we can learn a lot about Epicureanism!
>start reading another scroll
>oh cool some more Philodemus
>open another
>it’s the same copy of Philodemus
>it’s all Philodemus
Mfw
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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What were the Episcopalians cooking with Eucharistic Prayer C from the 1979 BCP? Was this in preparation for communion on the ISS or something?
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