we got dunes though. They are also good.

High mountains in my world

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St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek MS 11, p. 482, l. 10
c. 780
 
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main entertainment: Labrador doodling

On the Atlantic side, however, things are really not fun (see the wikipedia climate chart on the town called euphemistically Happy Valley-Goose Bay)

On the Pacific coast, I think Leiden would be similar to the major city of Klemtu. The climate looks chilly, but somehow less disastrous than I would have expected.
There is also a "privately owned ghost town" around there (Butedale).

Hmmm… I checked Labrador (which is our latitude) and wikipedia doesn’t even have an “economy” section. And that part of the State has 26,665 inhabitants 😬

Meanwhile the MapLE team have discussed research integrity, practised with story boards, and learned about the languages Tagbaylit (Algeria), Ishe (Nigeria), Oromo (Ethiopia) and Gizey (Cameroon) 🤩
#MapLE

Oh but Labrador and Newfoundland - which are only 9x larger than the Netherlands in surface - still host about 500,000 people 😱

I get the feeling that Leiden is a little bit less university-only than some of the US university towns (Cambridge MA, Urbana IL) or places like Erlangen and Tübingen in Germany. But it is still a city with only about 130,000 inhabitants. But comfortable to live in and a great tourist destination.

And it is a small place with small-place vibes and everbody is always rushed in the western part of the country. And, worst of all, nobody has a Gronings accent here (me neither). The first 25 years I lived here I always had a feeling of finally being back home once I crossed the IJssel (eastward).

Huh?

That sounds terrible…

(from someone who always struggles with hotel aircos, not having any home experience with them)

Kommt es nur mir so vor, oder sind Tagungen in der Regel Treffen von Leuten, die nichts Neues zu erzählen haben?

Beschreibt das spezifisch Tagungen oder eher Wissenschaftler im Allgemeinen?

Oh indeed, that sounds awkward to me too. Although the use of bye-bye in Niger (the only English term next to taximan - final stress) made me slightly immune to the illicitness (illicicity?)

A Dutch colleague of mine who did a year in Chicago once did a word play in English. Her American interlocutor corrected her and when she explained it was a joke he said - deeply shocked : “You made a deliberate mistake?”

In my very idiolectical usage I would have doedoei as a possible bye-bye. Dagdag rather as an introductory greeting to someone one sees very often. Neither of them meant to be condescending. I don’t think any of them is very recent, so I am less sure it is a calque on bye-bye (it still could be)

Now I am wondering- is it ungrammatical for you or only for the grammarians?

(If I would have to write English - God forbid - I would absolutely construct it in the “ungrammatical” way)

After 40 years of living in Leiden I have finally resigned to my fate. Not going to like it too much, but less hating it than before.

Beautiful picture! I guess the painting of the inscribed parts is a plausible reconstruction - these things were made to be seen from afar

Here's a recent picture from the Chemtou Museum with the top part of the obelisk in question.

Thank you! Is this your picture?

Maybe he spoke it from left to right 🤷

Behold! The follower:

To be fair, this poster has exacly one (1) follower

Btw this is in reaction to a post about a Belgian influencer asking for volunteers to do her work in an auberge in Tamraght (Morocco)

X doing its thing again 🥱

The Prussian Mine and Foundry Company (today known as the package holiday provider TUI) triumphs again.

Lovely, thank you!