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Added a Russian language intro to my pinned post :)

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Three Swans in Flight by David Lloyd Evans

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I got the TA job yippee!! I get to TA for Roman history :D

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Recent study sessions; after a month long cold, I am finally getting better + regaining my energy🪴🥹🤍✨

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Avebury Stone Circle, Avebury, Unesco World Heritage Site, Wiltshire, England By Adam Woolfitt

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an afternoon in La Rochelle 📚 🌊🪼couldn't resist and bought an old copy of Twenty Years After. my Alexandre Dumas shrine is growing.

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Some quiet days :)

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I went to my favourite Portuguese cafe to plan out the next uni semester. Every academic year I yearn for the summer, and every summer I sit in excitement to start studying again lol ☕️

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Sí, oui, òc!

Italian sì, Spanish sí, Portuguese sim and many more Romance words for 'yes' come from Latin sīc, which meant 'so; thus; like that'. In Popular Latin it got an extra meaning: 'yes', born out of the sense 'like that', i.e. 'like you said'.

French oui has a completely different origin. It comes from Old French oïl, a univerbation of o il, literally 'yes, it (is/does/has etc.)'.

O stemmed from Latin hoc (this), which became òc (yes) in Occitan, a group of languages whose name was derived from this very word.

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Sometimes after I’ve done a bunch of Russian homework or studying I briefly forget how to write the Latin alphabet. Like I just sat there staring at a piece of paper going “which way does the N go??” 😭

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Autumn days and law school struggles 🍂

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application szn

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Decided if I work ahead this week I’m going to get wine drunk with my bestie on the weekend 👍

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Pro tip: if you ever feel like everything is fucked and your mind is actively working against you, get up and go drink two tall glasses of cool water. It’s unlikely to help with the triggering issue directly, but your primal fish brain will enjoy the kindness.

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lowkey all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey