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This book looks great! About half of it is related to the Ming and Qing, but there's also stuff on Ethiopia, Japan, Korea. doi.org/10.1515/9783... Sinology 🀄️📚

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How Conservative Is the Morphology of Hachijō? edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4...

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Ausschreibung einer sinologischen Bibliothekarsstelle (E 9b TV-G-U, halbtags) an der JWGU Frankfurt am Main (Bewerbungsfrist 12.3.2925): tinyurl.com/2dkhrcs6.

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From the popular series "this (probably) wouldn't have happened with Chinese characters": 조선통신사 역사관 [= 朝鮮通信使歷史館] "Chosun News Agency (!) History Museum" 😾

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Le numéro 74 de la Revue d'études tibétaines (RET) est en ligne, sur le thème "From Print to Pixels: Building Digital Tools for Modern Tibetan Textual Analysis", édité par Franz Xaver Erhard, Robert Barnett et Nathan W. Hill ! Bonne lecture ! 📚 www.sfemt.fr/parution-de-...

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Nachruf Heiner Eichner (Indogermanist): "Studierende, die sich etwa der Lektüre eines neugriechischen Aufsatzes wegen mangelnder eigener Sprachkenntnisse entziehen wollten, ernteten von seiner Seite nur Kopfschütteln angesichts einer in seinen Augen doch ausgezeichneten Gelegenheit, sich ...

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This was a rather big surprise today. I've seen the Thousand Character Classic 千字文 in various sizes, but never before in this size. (Andong 安東, ROK)

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私には夢があRüya 🤭 Diese japanische Übersetzung rüya ich mal lieber nicht weiter an... 😉

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Finally published! A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre Editors: Yamanaka Reiko, Monica Bethe, Eike Grossmann, Tom Hare, Diego Pellecchia, and Michael Watson. Leiden: Brill. 2024. 2 vols. Hardback or e-book. For details see link→ groups.google.com/g/pmjs/c/RwP...

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Yoolim Kim, Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Helena Miton, Olivier Morin 2025 "The phonology of letter shapes: Feature economy and informativeness in 43 writing systems" @ doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

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podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w... The amazing history of Catholicism in Korea, including a personal account of the Gwangju Democratization movement in 1980 by Dr Don Baker of UBC Asian Studies. A fascinating story from 1784 to today.

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This April: ‘Shifting Scripts’, a multifaceted event with panel discussions and workshops we organise together with @mkghamburg.bsky.social explores the intersections of Arabic and Persian graphic design with cultural, political and artistic narratives. More info/registration: uhh.de/csmc-shiftin...

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Easy as ABC? During his first years of printing, it seems that Christophe Plantin as a printer with French origin had no letters 'k' available for this particular roman typeface, leading him to combine the letters 'lz' in his printed regulation for his employees in the printing office. 📚💙📜

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YOU: Writing a thesis is hard! It's so difficult to be succinct! GUILIELMUS VAN MEGEN, in 1744: For my thesis, I have summarised the New Testament in 16 pages. Antwerp, Hendrik Conscience Library, F 78975, digitized: books.google.be/books?vid=EH...

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Those of us who hear about Proto-Indo-European and have learned Latin will be wondering: How realistic can reconstructed PIE be? Would it be possible to do a test by reconstructing Latin from modern Romance? Robert A. Hall tried it, and here's the result. Not perfect, but quite good actually.

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My article on Mock Foreigner speech is now available open access at Language and Communication! In it, I build on the mock language framework to explain what's up with the linguistic features used to invoke (white) foreignness in a Japanese media context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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🎓 Offene Begutachtung des Bandes "Digitale Translatologie" 💡 In den vergangenen Monaten haben Martin Kappus, Felix Hoberg & ich einen einführenden Band mit 16 deutschsprachigen Beiträgen (und noch mehr Beitragenden) zu digitalen Forschungs- und Praxisthemen der #Translation zusammengestellt […]

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japanese_morphology.exe has stopped working ... Ich muß sehr fest geschlafen haben. 私ハ甚ダヨク眠ッタネバナラヌ < 1910 独逸新文典 (下巻) @ dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/870003/1...

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Reading here about that "controversy" regarding historical linguistics there, this quote came to mind once more: "Ein Jeder, weil er spricht, glaubt auch über die Sprache sprechen zu können." Goethe (1824 [Ueber Kunst und Alterthum 5.1]: 11), pic < www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb1...

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"The Manchu is a pure tongue, not like the English made up of words taken from the languages of at least six different nations. In this respect it resembles the German, ..." 🧐🤔 < Meadows 1849:8 @ books.google.de/books?id=zpp...

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Still no suggestions for that other seal? 🧐 For the time being, here's another seal in Manchu and Chinese seal script: "daišutang" (l.), "待曙堂" (r.) < 1845 小兒語 / Ajige jusei gisuren i bithe @ SOAS: digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000966/0...

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Greek alphabet with letter names in Arabic. The funny thing: the Arabic is mirror-inverted! So what was learned here with the help of what? Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Sir. 647, f. 85v: digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat...

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Oana Iacubovschi / Samuel Noble / Ioana Feodorov (eds.) (2025): Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books. Second Volume of Collected Works of the TYPARABIC Project @ doi.org/10.1515/9783... (OA 🙏)

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Woah, this database of art auction sales catalogues (from the 17th century to 1945!) is really something! digitalprojects.wpi.art/auctions

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useful Demotic Egyptian proverb: jrj rmt-swg rmt-swg "The friend of an idiot is (himself) an idiot." (Onchsheshonqy 13,7) speculative reconstruction: *erə-rəmə-sákʲ rəmə-sákʲ (cf. Coptic ⲥⲟϭ "foolish")

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In 2022, the head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at LMU was accused of plagiarising his doctoral thesis from a book – but this book proved to be a forgery. Our Artefact Lab was involved in shedding light on ‘one of the biggest science thrillers of the post-war period’: uhh.de/csmc-colchic...

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