Α.Z. Foremаn: Seriοus Philology, Silly Вehаviоr
@azforeman
Grad student. Linguist. Medievalist. Poet. Author. Translator. Phonological cosplayer. 1st Amendment stan. Free Speech Nerd. Poems posted here may vanish
I was advised to make a video-ad for my Patreon. So I did. By throwing roughly three millennia of phonology into about a minute and a half.
Firebase buckets are normally locked. You'd have to intentionally set it to public, and I don't see how anyone sensate could do that accidentally given how the platform is set up. But a vibe-coding agent gone wrong and doing something it shouldn't in reaction to errors doesn't…
Tea app has been hacked. Personal user data was dumped on 4chan. Could this be vibe coding gone wrong? AI code generators focus on making things work not making them secure. They'll spin up databases, APIs etc without proper authentication, encryption or access controls.
I still think Dutch should be called "(Modern) Frankish" or, natively, "Vranks" (which is what *Frankisk would, I think, have become in modern Dutch through regular sound change) Or maybe even "French" in English, to troll all Belgians equally whether from the north or the…
Frankish survived and has a more or less direct descendant in the form of modern Dutch. The Rhine was a militarized border under Roman rule and the area south of it (including all of modern Belgium and about a third of the Netherlands) saw 450 years of Roman control. But that…
How many evenings end in scenes like these? Many. But fewer than the heart believes. —A.Z. Foreman rattle.com/still-life-wit…
I’ve dunked on this account before but this seems to me to be basically true in a certain sense. If it were not for the Islamic conquests, large parts of North Africa would probably have produced Romance languages. (Assuming something else didn’t displace Latin, of course. It…
If it weren’t for Islam, North Africa would be part of the Latina belt
What on Earth was going on with ʕayn/ġayn in Ugaritic? First the ġnb ("grapes") weirdness and now this... Reminds once again of the ʕamīq/ġamīq ("deep") variation in Arabic.
הבאנו 1200 שלטים להפגנה בהבימה - נגד ההרעבה בעזה, בקריאה לסירוב - והם חולקו תוך דקות. הלכנו להביא עוד מאות שלטים, וגם הם חולקו. נאלצנו לחלק כאלה ישנים, שכתוב עליהם רק "לעצור את המלחמה". אנשים שהצעתי להם נזפו בי: "למה אין עוד שלטים על סרבנות? למה לא הבאתם עוד תמונות ילדים מעזה?".…
Dutch literature is ridiculously underrated and I will die on this hill. Maurice Gilliams and Jan Slauerhoff are my homies.
I'm not the only one who feels like students wildly underestimate how much prep time goes into a class, am I?
Airdrops are far too little, far too late. *Flood* Gaza with trucks of food via Kerem Shalom and Erez, NOW. If you are worried about Hamas stealing it: make food so abundant that its value to terrorists and gangsters drops like a stone.
Israel will now allow Arab countries to resume the airdrops of food into Gaza. This is a step that hasn't happened for many months. It happened last year when the humanitarian situation was extremely dire. At the same time Israeli officials continue to claim there is no…
Going to start translating Tussentaal as “Twixtish”
Well…good luck with all THAT
Jan Slauerhoff was an og chinaboo
Portret van Jan Slauerhoff Hij heeft geen land. Geen vrouw. Geen vaderhuis. Zijn bloed is scheepsdiesel, zijn hart een vlam die 's nachts aan Chinas havenmonden kwam en doofde in een bordeel vol schaamte en ruis. De kustlijn trok hem weg van elke keus. Hij lag te dromen in den…
Portret van Jan Slauerhoff Hij heeft geen land. Geen vrouw. Geen vaderhuis. Zijn bloed is scheepsdiesel, zijn hart een vlam die 's nachts aan Chinas havenmonden kwam en doofde in een bordeel vol schaamte en ruis. De kustlijn trok hem weg van elke keus. Hij lag te dromen in den…
What's the animals' communication limit? This penguin appears to have found a way to say it wants to be petted using gestures. [📹 Gekidan_penters]
platonic cuddling is great and yes i know about the accidental boners (it’s fine. i know it’s just an autonomic nervous system response to all the close proximity and touching. your body’s reaction doesn’t make you a perv.)
The Left is celebrating Hulk Hogan’s death because he was a Trump supporter. These people are truly subhuman and parasitic!
The Left is celebrating Hulk Hogan’s death because he was a Trump supporter. These people are truly subhuman and parasitic!
We are now forever cursed with this thing where people think that something is AI generated even when it is obviously not AI generated, and then get weird about it.
