photos of the UUCGT building showing rainbow flags and affirming language. The words say "We are on the forefront of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer inclusion for more than 40 years, we are people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

UUCGT proudly affirms and celebrates LGBTQ+ people. For over 40 years, we’ve been committed to inclusion, justice, and love—without exception. 🏳️‍🌈 #UUCGT #LGBTQInclusion #UnitarianUniversalism #LoveIsLove #belovedcommunity

B sounds better to me.

Congrats, Rikker! I enjoyed my years at SUNY.

The first UK Pride in 1972

Julian Hows making a stand for equality by wearing a skirt as part of his London Transport uniform.

When I was a young gay man I sat with my elders who recalled the early days of the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay News blasphemy trial and cruising on the Heath.
These bold men and women refused to remain in the closet, despite widespread hostility against LGBTQ people.
#LGBTHistoryMonth
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Portrait of Gimiwan, or Rain, an Ojibwe man, as painted at a treaty he was signing at Duluth in 1827.

I had a year-long course on the language when I was an undergrad. (Taught by Thomas Lambdin himself.)
Enjoyed it immensely.

I will note, however, that almost all the texts you read will be about martyrs! Some people enjoy that; others maybe not so much.

Show me what democracy looks like!

Chart showing the Ethiopian syllabary in seven columns

The beautiful order of the Gəʕəz syllabary, with 7 orders (ä, u, i, a, e, ə/∅, o)

I was going to post about this earlier — in the 1950s, “integration” was the same scapegoat for *everything* that DEI has become today. The same scapegoating was deployed even earlier for abolition, and then later for multiculturalism. Different codewords, same racism.

Wild poppies, the first blooms after wildfires, inspired Leah Mata Fragua's installation for Fire Kinship - a planned exhibit at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. Using natural dyes and soundscapes, it reflects fire's cycles and ties to Indigenous knowledge. Read more: sarweb.org/blog-wild-po...

This particular root is reconstructible at least to Georgian-Zan *ğu(d)-, as it is found in Megrelian and Laz:

Megrelian ღუდა ğuda warm, heated
Laz ღუმი ğumi dust, sand
Laz ღუმიარი ğumiari smoke

As with many expressive roots, the specific semantics of each word varies greatly.

#OTD 103 years ago, Ilse Lehiste (1922-2010) was born 🎂 She was an expert on acoustic phonetics, phonology, and prosody who focused in particular on Estonian. As the third woman in history, she served as the president of the LSA in 1980.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

#OTD 164 years ago, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (1861-1936) was born 🤩 Historical-comparative linguist, member of the Neogrammarian school, and an expert on the history of Romance languages. He was the nephew of the Swiss novelist Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898).

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

This week my employer of 17 years English Heritage announced 200 jobs lost, and my Alma mater Cardiff Uni announced 400 jobs lost. The planning system that protects our heritage and provides thousands of archaeology jobs is at risk, and Higher Education is in free fall more generally #ThisIsFine

Photo of 5 dog figurines in profile facing to the left in a staggered line. The closest one is reddish, the three in the middle are beige, and the furthest is dark grey. Each one has a cuneiform inscription on their side.

For anyone wondering, some possible dog names have survived from cuneiform sources.

On tiny dog figurines found buried under a palace in Nineveh, Iraq are inscriptions that seem to be names.

dan rigiššu “loud is his bark”

munaššiku gārîšu “biter of his foe”

mušēṣi lemnūti “expeller of evil”

Clauss-internal structure by Diesterweg (1830) of the sentence: "Ein unter den schwierigen Umständen standhaft gebliebener Vater von sechs unmündigen, in weiter Entfernung lebenden Kindern, hat sich auch in diesem theuern Jahre durch rastlose Thätigkeit bei Tag und Nacht vor Tausenden seiner Mitbürger rühmlich ausgezeichnet."

Adolph Diesterweg (1790-1866), educator and father of publisher Moritz Diesterweg, in 1830 wrote *Praktischer Lehrgang* for German teachers. AFAIK it contains the first clause-internal graphical analysis. The use of braces is actually well thought-out. #linguistics

cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

Fragment of a cuneiform tablet with about 15 lines of mostly preserved text divided into 7 clearly marked sections. The colour of the clay is reddish

Ghosts in ancient Mesopotamia causes all kinds of medical issues. Vertigo, depression, and more.

This therapy to treat someone seized by a ghost prescribed fumigation with pig, wolf, dog, fox, and gazelle poop, and other stuff that smelled awful. Seems a good way to get rid of a ghost was to stink

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Two photos at the University of California, Berkeley (headed "Your memories from Facebook"), one of a worker removing the letters from the unnamed Kroeber Hall, one of me holding the K in front of a banner, featuring a large H, advertising the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

Another site showed me this from 4 years ago, a most memorable (and for me impactful) day at the University of California. I later gave away the K, but I like the picture, showing me and the elided K overshadowed by a very much non-elided H (for Hearst).

There’s a lot going on, but this is not only very petty, it’s also extremely racist. The indigenous people of Alaska wanted to have Denali recognized by its real name. And a Day One priority for this administration is to make sure they know they’re not considered stakeholders, rather subjects.

Tetracerus quadricornis, the four horned antelope, also called the chausingha, has four names, all of which mean "four-horns" on a different language.
All four of those names are built from words that trace back to the Proto-Indo-European words for "four" and "horn".
#etymology #linguistics

Latest update for my Timucua dictionary, now available at
www.webonary.org/timucua/

Skull
Digital art

My village is Gingolix “place of skulls” I absolutely love skulls.

This and a few variations of this skull are for an upcoming drum commission for one of my favourite West coast singers/performers!

መልካም ገና! For all those celebrating Orthodox Christmas. I'm rather taken by this Ge'ez "Vector" typeface by Abel Daniel (BelaFonts/BelaGraph).

Fieldwork tip: if, in the course of a long elicitation session, your consultant translates "black pepper" as "may it get into your eyes", it may be time for a break.

(from Barth's 1850 vocabulary of Emghedesie.
My reconstruction:
nda a-hur ni-n moo-yo
if 3SG-enter 2SG-GEN eye-PL)

"shoggoth with smiley face" meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoggoth-with-smiley-face-artificial-intelligence

loving 'the Ghost of Intentionality'! one thing your admirable definition glosses over is the role of RLHF, the human judgment-derived output sculpter that makes ChatGPT's stream of regurgitated text appear so friendly, helpful and docile

#OTD 99 years ago, Luise Hercus (1926-2018) was born 🥳 She had first studied Middle Indo-Aryan languages, but later turned her attention to fieldwork and documentation of several Australian indigenous languages, such as Paakantyi, Wirangu, and Diyari.

#WomenInLiguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

A ribbon bound copy of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act.

Homosexuality was only partially decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967.
It’s estimated that 15,000 men were arrested for being gay after the Sexual Offences Act 1967 passed, a greater number than when homosexuality had been entirely illegal.