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yes, hello?

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This is the NRA and Republicans in a nutshell

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let’s pour one out for all the janitors who clean and never get enough appreciation

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Necromancers are healers with bad timing.

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How does twitter never have this? This argument has consumed the West since Stalin.

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The Centre for Norwegian Language and Literature has compiled a 138-page pdf file of language museums of the world, including institutions, websites, memorials, edited by Ottar Grepstad. From the introduction: 

Two out of three of all the languages in the world are used in Africa or Asia. In this book, however, two out of three language museums are situated in Europe. That indicates differences in the institutional development of societies, but also some of the difficulties connected to such documentation.

In some way or another, language has been in the world as long as there have been human beings. Museums dealing with language are among the newer institutions in the world of museums. The way of thinking about language has changed throughout the world the last decades, and almost half of all language museums listed below, was opened after year 2000. But language in a broader sense, meaning writing and written culture, has been an important subject for many museums for more than a hundred years. The oldest language museum dates from 1898, and the oldest museum on written culture from 1884. In this context, a language museum is a museum devoted to information, education, documentation and/or research about language of some kind or another. Language is a cultural, social or political issue as well as a linguistic one, and in this broader sense, language museums also include institutions that deal with written or spoken culture as their core theme.

The hunt for language museums started in 2008. A preliminary catalogue was published in 2009, Museums of language and written culture in the world. By then, 22 museums were identified, and 12 institutions were under construction, out of which only three existed in 2017. […]

This second edition includes 80 museums of language and written culture in 31 countries. There might be more, and in some cases, updated information has been hard to find.

The museums have been divided into five groups: • 6 museums of language and languages of the world • 33 museums of a single language or group of languages • 15 museums of writing and written culture • 11 museums in memory of persons • 15 digital museums

By 2017, there were ideas, plans and initiatives for at least 18 more language museums, some of them even under construction, but six museums had been closed. The book presents 39 websites about language systems, language in use and language rights. Documentation is also included about 35 monuments, 23 festivals and 69 days and weeks for memory or celebration of languages.

Read the whole pdf. 

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OMG THEY TOUCH WITH HANDS

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Manuel Orazi (Italian-French, 1860 - 1934)

Scene of pyre in the Middle Ages, N/D

Charcoal, ink wash of China and gouache on strong paper, 48 x 63 cm

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god

animal rights activists need to learn that cows moo for other reasons than “missing their babies”

you can’t just go on a farm, hear a cow bellowing, and assume it’s for her calf. that’s stupid.

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This is so important

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i did buy this. i long to understand it.

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Elaborate golden pin of undetermined purpose with a central hole. Eastern Mediterranean region. 14th century B.C. [3000x4000]

SWITCH TO FIREFOX AND ADD UBLOCK ORIGIN

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I have to thank that anon though since it’s because of them that I just learned a new Russian idiom, поднимать шум на пустом месте. I translated it as “making a mountain out of a molehill” because I figured that was the closest idiom in English with a similar idea behind it (making a big fuss out of nothing), but I rather like the literal translation of it, which is “raise up a noise in an empty place.” Makes me think of a bunch of people just going out in the boonies, like in the middle of a cornfield or something, to do nothing but SHRIEK.