Maarten Kossmann

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Monday morning in front of Zandvliet/Berendrecht locks , Port of Antwerp (IG centralezandvliet)

I'll give one more: many of our graduate students don't work on projects that are narrowly related to our own research; some of our advisees (even PhD) do things quite far afield. A much firmer expectation that students develop their own project, rather than a piece of a PI's research.

In some of the letters between my great-great uncle and Max Weinreich, my uncle describes how many American Jews so badly want(ed) to connect with the culture of their Yiddish-speaking parents, but had so little interest in speaking the language as adults, and none in speaking it with their kids.

Toen ik in Leiden kwam wonen was het heel uitzonderlijk als je in Katwijk vanaf het strand Scheveningen kon zien. Nu is het heel ongewoon als dat niet kan.

The colors at sunrise were *insane* this morning. The sky, the fall colors at Promontory Point, the lake...Sheesh! Sure picked a good morning to wake up early

This is a painfully AI-infused, vibe-coded site, not lacking in broken links and poorly credited materials, but it has some good stuff nonetheless. Worth a look for anyone interested in Tadaksahak or the Idaksahak. hamadine-services.net/en/

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One man and his duck called Boot a runner duck duckling

1/24 410 years ago #otd, a Dutch ship ran into a coast that was on no European map. Her crew climbed a cliff, flattened a pewter dinner plate, scratched a message into it, and nailed it to a post. That plate is the oldest known European object from Australia. #maritimehistory

Note to self. If I ever want to hack an account on X, don’t start posting spam in Chinese on a Dutch-language account.

Details of what went on there for textile enthusiasts: www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/barrow-1901-...

Ich frage mich immer, wie man Lorbeerblätter ohne Grundriss trocknen sollte #PraktischePhilologie @mqassiti.bsky.social @herbilis.bsky.social

Je suis obsédé par ce tapis. J'espère qu'il y aura des thésard·e·s en histoire de l'Art qui bosseront dessus au XXIIe siècle "Planter le décor. Une hétérotopie potagère dans les carrefour markets du premier XXIe siècle" "Navet ou chef-d'oeuvre? L'art légumier dans les superettes des années 2020"

Si on regarde les triangles que j'avais déjà, on voit qu'ils n'ont pas toujours bonne presse, que ça soit parmi les nombreux instruments dans l'Enfer de Bosch ou ceux, tout aussi nombreux, brisés aux pieds de sainte Cécile

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In Mozambique heat indexes have locally risen >55C, the worst feel-like ever recorded anywhere in Southern Africa. There has never been anything like this or anything close. Records of High Minimums were locally broken by 8C in Zambia,where nearly 100% of the stations broke them

Rik van Gijn today delivered his inaugural lecture ‘Linguistic diversity forever!’ as professor of ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity in the world. 👨🏼‍🎓 Proud and happy to have Rik as a colleague!

Great thread and conversation going on here ⬇️

The infatigable Hassane Benamara has published a new book with IRCAM about the looms and weaving in Figuig. I haven't seen it yet, but it will be great! @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social @lameensouag.bsky.social

Roman gravestone with relief from Nickenich, Germany, (circa 50 CE), the relief likely shows a Roman trader of enslaved individuals (the Latin term for which is a mango) with a cudgel, who leads two enslaved men in neck chains to be sold, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany. A rare depiction.

OK, reposting from X is the worst ever offense here, but, well, we're talking of Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, the ultimate boss of Sahel scholarship (whose son Jean-Karim is a very promising young tennis player). Totally amazing

taldžigt tagužilt ibuɣlun g wayyur n lxrif is tgramt ilan matta wayyur km-id yusan

A 1,886-page Qur'an translation into Tamajeq with commentary in Arabic, seemingly self-(un)published. A word processor was used, but everything else about this could have come straight out of a 19th c. manuscript, including the neat marginal annotations. ia600501.us.archive.org/9/items/2026...

A wonderful site about fish names and nautical terms in Dellys Arabic, recently updated elbahri.net

🎶it's the last ro-ose o-of summer...🎶

Eindelijk! Zwitserse (69) en Oostenrijkse (76) 1,5 jaar na ontvoering in Niger vrijgelaten - nos.nl/l/2636222

Greyhound Bus Station, Cleveland Built in 1948 and designed by William Strudwick Arrasmith in Streamline Moderne style, this Cleveland building served as a Greyhound Bus Station. 📷 w_lemay (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons #ArtDeco #architecture

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Bioscienceparksonnenuntergangsromantik @eisforenkidu.bsky.social

Makes sense at my age 🤷

Ce dragon très anglais rejoint direct mon étiquette "dents pointus" 😬 → lamusee.fr/tags/dents_p...

imḍṛṛ usǝggʷas issiɣ-d afriwn --timssi ur aɣ issrɣin *amḍṛṛ = autumn

Seeing the icthyosaur who died in childbirth and then this fossil left me feeling so small and humbled. These glimpses of the past mean more than I can put into words.

Nog één keer mijn #sonnettenkrans, dit keer als doorgaand draadje. Hierna zal ik jullie een tijdje met rust laten!

The condition of fabrics from #prehistoric pile dwelling and wetland settlements is amazing. This charred ball of thread was found at the site of Marin-Epagnier/Préfargier. It was made of hemp or lime fibres, and dates about 3900 to 3300 BC. The thread measures a total of about 10 m in length.🧵1/2

Holy smokes: “the British spelling <colour> ... was spearheaded by Ontario, where 75% of parents already used it in 1972, compared to only 23% of parents in Alberta and Saskatchewan; today, Ontario still has the highest proportion of <colour> (92%), but the rest of the country has almost caught up.”

Vor dem Busbahnhof am Südkreuz ist in Schriftgrad Tausend NO PKW auf die Straße gedruckt und ich frage mich, in welcher Sprache das gedacht ist.

Tarifit word of today: piḍẓa n iṭurkiyen - "lahmacun", calque of Dutch 'Turkse pizza'

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Happy to announce the publication of my article “The <AL + Imperfective> construction in Figuig Amazigh (Berber)” in the Journal of African Languages and Literatures! 🙏 @valeschiattarella.bsky.social @tagwrsanyils.eurosky.social @mmisumazigh.bsky.social serena.sharepress.it/jalalit/arti...

C'est vrai que toutes les langues germaniques se ressemblent, mais on ne se serait pas un tout petit peu trompé de photo ?