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Scribes as Scheiße

Pitch accent in Japanese

Keelung ("chicken coop")

The Oldest (Known) Song Ever

Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' through time and space

Schleicher's PIE "The Sheep and the Horses" (reprise)

The gender of a key

Sacré bleu!

French girl sells crêpes in a Taiwan market, part 2

What good are kanji?

Spontaneities

L-complex

Characters at hand

Unofficial simplified characters

The (ir)reality of the MingKwai typewriter

How to pronounce the name of the ruler of the PRC

Semiliterate restaurant Chinese

AI to the rescue of a Greek philosopher's work buried by Vesuvius

Steve Anderson, RIP

Free-er indirect speech

"Think" in Japanese

Meh

"Moloch's bargain"?

The tyranny of literacy

America-vectorized units

The niceties of German grammar

Disposal bin

Literacy: peasants and philosophers

Correspondences between Ancient Greek doȗle (voc.) 'slave' and 奴隷 Jpn dorei / Tw lô·-lē

More conjoined pronoun case counts

The invention of English

Barriers between you and I?

"The insane effort to preserve this ancient script"

"Prepositions are tricky"

Different from/than/to?

Study Reveals America's Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise

Death from overwork

"Between you and I"

Intentional for good

Top Gun photoshop fail

AAA

The singularity of stupid

"Long-held assumptions"?

The difficulty of borrowing in Chinese

Maxwell next?

Vernacular and classical fiction in late imperial China

Discourse on the AI Method of Rightly Reasoning

AI: Not taking jobs yet?

Freudian slip of the century: "Let's stop attacking pedophiles"

Sino-Japanese n- / d- initial interchange

Stay hyDRAEted

"It can only good happen"?

Charlie Hustle in the AI industry

"Slav-ishly devoted"