some of it i genuinely can't parse, but it attributes the earliest sense of "sommarbarn" in Swedish to Bremer, just as multiple English references did with "summer child."

here's an entry from a 1985 Swedish dictionary (machine translated, would love help better understanding it from a Swedish speaker!) for "sommarbarn"

point is, this mostly-forgotten Victorian novelist known as "the Swedish Jane Austen" (and influential proto-feminist) was so popular in her time, in both Swedish and English, that she coined a single term that was adopted in both languages! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik...

unfortunately hard to compare to the English usage of "summer child" from Ngram, which shows occurrences as a percentage of words, not of works. probably some comp ling person can solve this problem but i'm high and i don't feel like it

after Bremer, "sommarbarn" gets more popular in Swedish, though maybe less so than "summer child" does in English. it appears 25 times in the 9346 books in the litteraturbanken.se corpus between 1850 and 1930

going off this machine translation it seems like he employs "sommarbarn" in a poetic way that doesn't match either Bremer's usage or the modern one. he uses it to refer to summer itself, to which the late arctic spring "gives birth."

while there's no Swedish corpus on Ngram, and I wasn't able to find any similar tool, litteraturbanken.se turned up one Swedish usage of "sommarbarn" prior to 1839, in an 1832 novel by Otto Sebastian von Unge

so, what is Bremer's oft-used "summer child" a translation from in Swedish? was it, perhaps, in common Swedish usage at the time? well, it's a direct calque (loan-translation) of "sommarbarn." here Bremer uses it twice on the same page

but nobody seems to have noticed that The Home, like all of Fredrika Bremer's work, was translated from Swedish! the original Swedish edition was published 5 years before the English translation, in 1939

this usage gained popularity later in the 20th century. the occasional "sweet summer child" in Victorian poetry can be understood as an application of the adjective "sweet" to the commonly-known phrase "summer child," rather than its own distinct expression

he shows compelling evidence that this phrase came into common usage to mean "darling child" following the publication of her 1844 novel "The Home"

Was "Sweet Summer Child" Invented By Game Of Thrones? YouTube video by Dime Store Adventures

in @dimestoreadventure.bsky.social's video on the topic, he points out that while "sweet summer child" appears only sporadically in the 19th century, "summer child" was a common expression in English going back to the 1840s, with quite a different meaning youtu.be/dyD6SCAlLT0?...

while learning about the "was 'sweet summer child' invented by Game of Thrones" debate (it definitely was), i stumbled onto something interesting that i think i might be the first one to notice 🧵

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

this guy seems alright

Former New York Mayor Eric Adams Granted Albanian Citizenship Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been granted Albanian citizenship and issued an Albanian passport.

🚨ERIC ADAMS IS ALBANIAN🚨

albaniandailynews.com/news/former-...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

every ratchet is a one way ratchet

line a bit longer than normal (maybe 25 minutes) and no ICE guys at least at my terminal. writing this from my gate at o'hare

The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club

"Nonprofits ostensibly focused on ensuring First Amendment protections also turned their backs. (To this day, the ACLU of Texas has yet to comment.)"

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/...

Liberalism is exactly this: a constant set of musing hypotheticals, terms and conditions, ending with supporting fascists authorizing the torture of children.

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

honored to have recommended this topic!

the blatant lebensraum shit aside, this is a direct admission of israel's policy of using its own civilian populations as a weapon of war, as human shields

just spitballing here: what if we didn't

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@nogodsnomayors.com there are Vernons everywhere for those with the eyes to see

hey do any of my mutuals have wechat? i'm going to china in a few days, just made an account and immediately got restricted. serious, not a scam, please dm!

i will never forgive the jewish community i grew up in for teaching me that my culture and identity is inseparable from this suicidal fascist death cult