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lvxferre, 7 months ago

Hadrian was a big fan of this sort of large, public project. Besides the aqueduct there’s also Hadrian’s Wall (right at the border of Rome with the Picts, in Britannia) and the temple for Venus and Roma in the city.

Although… what interested me the most in the article wasn’t this sort of modern stuff, it was

the remains [in Greece] of a prehistoric settlement thought to be from the Bronze Age, roughly 2600 to 2300 B.C.

That’s an interesting period of the peninsula, as it was likely already Indo-Europeanised, but not Hellenised. Proto-Greek would be a bit after that, starting around 2200 BCE; but you already had Illyrian, Messapic, Thracian, Dacian, and perhaps Phrygian. (It’s kind of hard to know if they’re part of the same IE branch, or if similarities between them are areal. Greek in special borrowed quite a bit from native languages.)

lvxferre, 7 months ago

Kakao in the near future, trying to handle Tachiyomi forks:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/2a6ead3fde702ccede2df784b5cb595d/tumblr_n4jy9yq6GF1spy7ono1_400.gif

lvxferre, 7 months ago

Thank you!

lvxferre, 7 months ago

Shhh, just be careful, Linguistics is addictive. And a gateway to even heavier drugs, like constructed languages!

Jokes aside I get the passion. It’s that sort of field of knowledge that, no matter where you look at, you’ll find something beautiful about it.

Sometimes it’s a small etymology that “clicks” on you, or a speaker using some idiosyncratic variation; sometimes it’s pondering how we humans seized the world because we speak, perhaps as instinctively as the spiders weave webs or the cats destroy furniture. There’s room in Linguistics to be creative, or to be rigorous; to look at the past, or to investigate the present.

lvxferre, 7 months ago

How to get all kremkoins in Donkey Kong Country 2, through a cheat:

• Enter the cabin with the map and the life balloon. Leave without touching anything.
• Collect the banana bunch over the pirate crocodile. Go back to the cabin, now pick the life.
• Repeat the above. You’ll see a kremkoin over the map. Pick it and you got 75 kremkoins.

In no moment you can touch the two lone bananas close to the entrance of the cabin.

…it has been decades since I played this game, and I almost never used the cheat above (it’s less fun than finding all bonus stages). Why do I still remember this?

lvxferre, 7 months ago

I remember this one too! There was also B A↓B↑↓↓Y (bad buddy) to switch when you wanted in 2P, instead of waiting until the arsehole playing with you to switch it.

Plus LRR LRR LR LR for DKC3. Then you’d insert a cheat and… I don’t remember them. Damn.