simonmusgrave.bsky.social
One time professional violinist, one time academic linguist, current research infrastructure worker. More importantly, long time partner to @deborahhart.bsky.social and father to Anna and Olivia.
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Interesting choice of name for the business given that most definitions of 'artisan' mention products being made by hand.
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Not the same because it's about syntax not segmentation, but I smile when I hear Leonora tell Padre Guardiano: Involuntario m'uccide il genitor.
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From my childhood:
What would you do if God came to Hawthorn today?
Move Peter Hudson to centre half-forward.
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It was a delight but I was disappointed that the survey of PMs only got to Rudd.
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And even Matt Keane who I definitely have on the sane rump of the liberals. At the bottom of the piece he lists voices who should be heard and includes Gladys Berejiklian. Seriously?
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The pile of money would have to extend to more funding for research or our home-grown talent will face a worse situation than the current one. Look at the success rates for DECRA and Discovery (I'm in humanities so I don't follow NHMRC).
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A captain's call is what Sir Humphrey would describe as a brave decision.
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I have not yet tracked down whether the original letter still exists and, if so, where it might be - but that's a rabbithole for another day! 8/8
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I think that this is evidence that the Edward Macarthur transcription is the source for at least some of the publications - if you look at the image above, you will see that the year is not clear. Personally, I can get 1795 or 1798, but struggle to read it as 1799. 7/8
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'Extracts of letters from Elizabeth Macarthur .... to her goddaughter Eliza Kingdon' and I think we can take Edward Macarthur as a reliable witness on this point. But there is more! Two publications give the date of the letter as 1795, one lists 1798 and one 1799. 6/8
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and the other a non-commital Miss Kingdon. An immediate source for the text is a transcription made by Elizabeth's son Edward, held by the State Library of NSW. The opening salutation is not included, but the catalogue information includes the following: 5/8
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But he didn't delete the spreadsheet entries - easy to overlook. But tracking down and viewing all the sources is much more intriguing,because they are not consistent. Two sources name the recipient of the letter as Bridget Kingdon, one has Eliza Kingdon 4/8
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The compiler of the corpus, a German scholar called Clemens Fritz, probably entered the bibliographic details in the spreadsheet before accessing the texts. When he saw the text, he realised that there were four sources for the one letter and deleted three files. 3/8
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The bibliographic details in the spreadsheet lead to three different publications of a letter written by Elizabeth Macarthur, a letter which is in the corpus anyway, collected from a fourth published source. This seems easy to explain. 2/8
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Pity about the last quarter.
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This is OK, but Climate 200 funding of independents is not? Please help me understand....
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Because I would have remembered the gem I'm listening to now - BWV104 Du Hirte Israel, höre. Just lovely.....2/2
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A 'Death in Venice' effect maybe?
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Not sure about who would be on what side, but I know who would be the sweary one 🤬