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A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior
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Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
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I don’t actually mind people asking my ethnic background in general. Curiosity is a good thing. It’s just this particular way of doing it that annoys me.

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How did they not see it, you may ask Oh they saw it. They did it anyway.

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“Where are you from?” Maryland “Ok but where are your parents from” Baltimore and New York “Ok but you know what I mean” Yes, but do you know what *I* mean?

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I don’t actually want to be warm I want to be cold and for the blanket to make me warm

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Remember when elections didn’t feel like playing Russian Roulette with three bullets loaded?

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"To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid." -Actual quote from a federal judge who is very very sick of Florida's shit. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69265...

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Hope my observant Jewish followers have a joyous time shaking fruit for God

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Still can't believe I sent this complete shitpost about poetic form (with this title) to a mag that as far as I could tell only published free verse, and they accepted it.

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Poems cannot be. Not unless they mean something. No sun of night can be a star without the humans out

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Every day that you don’t have to code in JavaScript is a day you are lucky enough not to code in JavaScript.

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My Latin Prose professor on Marius: "Yeah he marched on Rome but, like, who hasn't?"

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A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior
@azforeman.bsky.social
Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
435 followers41 following519 posts