“I’d be very worried if I saw a man singing the national anthem and waving the flag, sir. It’s really a thing foreigners do.”
“Really? Why?”
“We don’t need to show we’re patriotic, sir. I mean, this is Ankh-Morpork. We don’t have to make a big fuss about being the best, sir. We just know.”
One thing I mentioned in passing in my Fable post is that, for long running tasks, Fable starts to develop its own dialect as its many agents and tasks reinforce themselves and make Claudish language ever more Claudish.
You need to ask it to report out in plain English or this happens after 9 hours
Damn. I'm going to have to get this one pronto for my current project.
this should frighten you
If you are having déjà vu, it is because this story showed up in Language Log a few years back. The scroll is only just being released for public display. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=48602
Wow, @universitypress.cambridge.org keeps putting out bangers on early modern Japan!
Can’t wait for Laura Nenzi’s Japan After Dark, which challenges the idea that 19th-c. electrification disenchanted night
www.cambridge.org/core/books/j...
#envhum #envhist #histstm #AsianStudies
This appears to be the oldest extant text in Japan written on paper and has been designated a national treasure. If the dating is correct, this version significantly predates other versions found in Japan that dating from the 15th century. www.harvard-yenching.org/research/stu...
I reposted this a few days ago, and have been meaning to follow up. This is an article about a sixth century copy of vol 6 of 論語疏 (Ch: lunyu shu; Jp: rongo so), a commentary on Confucius' Analects that was largely lost in China, that has resurfaced in Japan.
surely the normally extremely vocal "free market" Libertarian think tanks have thoughts on this