Edward C. Yong ن
@infernoxv
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Classics. Eastern Churches. Early Music. Bass. Lute. Early Guitar. Fencer. Troll of Heretics. Jacobite. Father of #LatinHaiku. English, Latin, Ελληνικα, 中粵吳
Constantinople, 900 A.D.
Joined March 2008
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“The society that separates its scholars from its tweeters will have its jokes written in Latin and its education provided by fools.” —Ps.-General George Gordon
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random q for persianists and ottomanists! there’s a large subset of ottoman classical music that is actually persian, so when turkish performers sing it, do they use actual persian pronunciation or is there a distinct turkish-style pronunciation?
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@GenStilicho @Alvarus_lat Anecdotal proof of Latin as an extra quality filter: when I jot down notes in English, they seem perfectly worthy of memorialization. When I put them into Latin, I realize how nugatory they are. If it isn’t worth saying in Latin, delendum
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Our Lady of the Snows (c.1600), a damaged but surviving glimpse of Japanese Christian devotional art before the suppression of Christianity in Japan
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The amount of words surviving from the pen of St Augustine (5.3 million) is equivalent in size to 70% of all surviving Classical Latin.
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piss off
During Ramadan, Please don’t eat in front of Muslims. Please don’t drink in front of Muslims. Please don’t try to sell us food or water. We will be fasting from sunrise to sundown. I hope you can understand my clear message.
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Muslims did not invent maths, you retard. Maths goes back to Mesopotamia around 3500 BC. And don’t you dare claim Algebra was also an Islamic invention. It goes back to Babylonia and then was fully developed by a Persian.
We invented math, dip 💩 Christians never learned Logic past…well any level. You made a very basic category error as you believe the 3 are distinct individual persons. 1³ is the same exact thing 3 times over. You will never escape the LPT
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Egypt, one of the biggest downgrades in history.
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That slightly flat tuning of “How” makes the original hauntingly memorable.
Fun Fact: Astrud Gilberto was not a professional singer when she recorded “The Girl from Ipanema.” She stepped in almost by accident, and her understated English vocal became one of the most famous performances in music history.
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well she married a man who thinks a tuxedo is appropriate wear for a day wedding, so i don’t know what she was expecting…
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They burnt 3,000 Armenian Christians to death in their cathedral Then stole the cathedral and turned it into a mosque 130 years ago And we know that Islamist terrorists are quite capable of doing this again in 2026 if given half a chance, especially in Nigeria
Today marks the 130th anniversary of what eyewitnesses called “The Great Holocaust,” the mass burning of 3,000 Armenian civilians seeking refuge in the Holy Mother of God cathedral (now Saladin mosque) of my ancestral hometown Urfa during the Hamidian Massacres in Turkey. 📸by me
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use
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wow. zermatt has finally made a video w a woman (i can’t cal her a lady) whose table manners are as horrific as his.
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Say it louder “Who are the real colonizers” (Muslims) Without Arab imperialism: - Egyptians would be Coptic - Moroccans would be Berber - Libya and Algeria would be Amazigh - Syria and Lebanon would be Aramaic speaking and partly Phoenician - Iraq would be Mesopotamian -
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I get annoyed at Chinese nationalists who insist that Japanese culture is all "fake" for being Chinese derivative somehow. It's like saying German culture is fake because Theodoric borrowed from the Romans. All culture is inherently constructed and synthesized.
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🐷Japan uses pork in many of its dishes, so honestly, if that’s a problem, maybe you just shouldn’t come. Please don’t try to impose halal rules on us. Japanese food is widely regarded as some of the best cuisine in the world. #JapaneseFood
#FoodCulture
#RespectLocalCulture
This Muslim woman living in Japan is very angry because Japanese food has ‘a lot of pork’: “Japan uses too much pork. Whenever I buy something or go out to eat, I find out there’s pork and cannot eat it.” What’s the solution to her problem?
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Fun Fact: Muslims don't pray in the streets of Iran or Saudi Arabia or other Muslim countries. It is illegal and considered rude because it disturbs others. They only pray in the streets of countries they are conquering, as a dominance strategy.
While British police hunt down white Christian preachers to stop them from speaking on the streets, Muslims can do what they want. Elon Musk: "Civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when."
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A Samurai from the countryside being confronted by the police for wearing his Katana after the ban on swords. Tokyo Illustrated Newspaper April 4th 1876 (The sword ban came into effect in March of that year)
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