Exciting discovery of an Anglo-Saxon name-stone from this season's dig at Lindisfarne. The name ᚳᚢᚦᚹᚢᛚᚠ = Cuthwulf in runes at the top, and the what seems to be part of the same name (CVD...) in Latin script below.
No, no they don't. She's a baby pygmy hippopotamus, so she'll grow up to be a really cute adult pygmy hippopotamus -- nothing like your ordinary big bad-tempered hippo.
Maybe with a Mandarin coursebook that didn't start chapter one with a visit to a weather station, but gave us some core cat and dog vocabulary instead. T'ung & Pollard's Colloquial Chinese was good in parts, but really wasn't targeted at students visiting PRC.
40 years ago today I walked across the Lo Wu Bridge 羅湖橋 into China for the very first time — into a world that a year's intensive study of Mandarin and Classical Chinese at SOAS University of London had woefully ill-prepared me for.
The occasion was the graduation ceremony for my daughter @aprilw.bsky.social who completed an MA in music under Prof. Harris, and will be starting a PhD at SOAS next month, yikes!
Prof. Rachel Harris giving the citation for an honorary doctorate awarded by SOAS University of London to unjustly imprisoned Uyghur ethnographer Rahile Dawut two days ago
Its not even a real chipmunk, but a fantasy chipmunk/squirrel hybrid! (I wrote the rejected squirrel proposal which tried to fix the mess that implementers and Unicode's Emoji subcommittee made)
I like hoaxes as much as anyone, but they have no place on Wikipedia (when I die it will be because a Tangut stele fell onto me)
Hmm, it's not there now