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wolfofthewisp

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lupus in fabula : freelance editor, proofreader, text wrangler, html whittler, velociredactor… #folklore #folktales (especially ATU 505 grateful dead and alloyed motifs), myths, legends, shaggy dog stories - they/them/themself

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juergen_hubert, to languagelearning
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I could use some more suggestions for improving my : What written by Italian authors do you recommend?

They should be reasonably popular so that I can get them in Germany without too much hassle.

wolfofthewisp,
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@juergen_hubert always found Asterix great for language learning

juergen_hubert, to random German
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Question for : What is the most fascinating-yet-obscure 19th century book you have found on the Internet Archive?

https://archive.org/

wolfofthewisp, (edited )
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@juergen_hubert The Sailor’s Word Book - Admiral W. H. Smyth, 1867 (find on Gutenberg to download) https://archive.org/details/sailorswordbooka0000smyt

mythologymonday, to 13thFloor
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Greetings, myth lovers! To see out , our theme this week is: Drums!
Which involve drums or drum music? Tell us the and tag us with for boosts!

@mythology @folklore @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood @bevanthomas @FinnFolklorist @Godyssey @GaymerGeek @starrytimepod @Lemniscata

wolfofthewisp,
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@mythologymonday myth that buying a drum makes you a drummer?

SimonRoyHughes, to random
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How long do we tolerate #spam from an instance? If new accounts are still popping up to spam us after a week, I think we are justified in concluding that the instance is #unmoderated (#admins can lock down signups), and #block the whole instance. Or am I being too harsh?

wolfofthewisp,
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@SimonRoyHughes pretty sure i've not seen spam outside of the folklore guppe group - luckily (other spammed groups are, presumably, available)

wolfofthewisp, to webdev
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dear websites - do not use national flag icons to indicate languages

wolfofthewisp, to narcissism
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Malignant Narcissism: Concealed Side of Psychopathy [pdf 6pp] https://biomedres.us/pdfs/BJSTR.MS.ID.003686.pdf

wolfofthewisp, to neverwinternights
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some days you eat the gnome, some days the gnome eats you…

thank gnome it's friday https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dragon-door/

SimonRoyHughes, to bookstodon
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This year is the first full year for a long time I have been reading without measuring my reading, and because I haven't been measuring, I've read a lot more. Kindle tells me I've read 17 titles, but I have also read physical books, books in Google Play, iBooks, as well as ePubs I store on my devices and cloud accounts. So there has been a significant increase in my reading activity.

Some people buck against metrics; I am one of those people.

I'm currently re-reading William Goldman’s abridgement of S. Morgenstern’s Florinese masterpiece, The Princess Bride.

@bookstodon @reading

wolfofthewisp,
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@SimonRoyHughes just finished Wild Bill Goldman's screenplay Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (bit of an ordeal; dirty scan, bad OCR, reformatting my way along… took 4 sittings) - 823 shots!

juergen_hubert, to fediverse
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I agree that many social media platforms - whether X, Substack, or others - are basically stacked against progressive ideas, and there is little good that can be done by staying on them - since that would would only drive further money into the pocket of Nazi supporters.

However, I do worry about outreach. While the is largely friendly to progressive ideas, will it matter in the long run if what passes for "public discourse" happens elsewhere? How can we bring progressive ideas further into the mainstream, while large political and corporate forces are pushing into the opposite direction?

wolfofthewisp,
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@juergen_hubert tilting at algorithmills?

juergen_hubert, to random German
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I am curious: Do English-language books from the 16th and 17th century also have sentences that go on for several pages, or is that just the German-language books?

wolfofthewisp, (edited )
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@juergen_hubert paid per comma? punished for full stops? premium for semi-colons? https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-word-length-in-the-English-language-Different-colours-indicate-the-results-for_fig1_230764201

TarkabarkaHolgy, to folklore Hungarian
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I had a St. Martin's Day gig this week. My favorite part of St. Martin's legend is the episode where a man comes to Tours, spreading the news that the barbarians are about to attack. Panic breaks out. Bishop Martin summons the man, and discovers that he is possessed by 16 demons. The demons are intentionally spreading lies about a barbarian invasion to create panic and discord in the city...

🤔

wolfofthewisp,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy catalan lore has ‘the little summer of st martin’ - a spell of fine weather before winter sets in https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estiuet_de_Sant_Martí

Minimus, to random
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pungo: I puncture
Minimus ludit (amuses himself) by popping bullae iricolores (rainbow-coloured bubbles) in a cumulus spumae (pile of foam) - gaudia minima (tiny joys) for a mus parvus (little mouse)!

wolfofthewisp,
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@Minimus salve! now we know the latin for ‘cheap thrills’…

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wolfofthewisp,
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@SimonRoyHughes @folklore context? (Aesopian?) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/suffixes

TarkabarkaHolgy, to animals Hungarian
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Alright Mastodon, tell me about your favorite weird animals 😄

wolfofthewisp,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy bats are pretty high on the list https://www.dwds.de/wb/dwb/fliedermus

TarkabarkaHolgy, (edited ) to folklore Hungarian
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I was asked to do a series of books of animal folktales. I am in early planning stages, and musing what would be the best system to organize the series by... any input?

wolfofthewisp,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy continent or habitat : ‘where do we want to go today?’ (trite? or ‘tried and true’?) or perhaps by motif? intriguing proposition

TarkabarkaHolgy, to Budapest Hungarian
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On the streets of Budapest
There must be a story...

wolfofthewisp,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy 6 of hearts torn (broken engagement), 8 of clubs ‘arrows of love’?

GayOldTime, to Vintage
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"Gay as a five cent pencil”
It's not a phrase, but together we can make it one

wolfofthewisp,
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@GayOldTime @headword the english had the expression ‘queer as a nine-bob note’ (there was no nine-bob note - ‘bob’ is slang for a shilling; 5 new pence, or 5p) - although ‘queer' in this context may mean something like ‘bent’ in the sense of counterfeit (crooked)

wolfofthewisp,
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@GayOldTime 3 bucks is a lot more expensive… 9 bob (45p) is about 55 cents at current exchange rates! but of course $2 bills were a thing… reminds me of an old dad joke about 2 brothers - counterfeiters - 1 of whom was ridiculed by the other for printing $15 bills, went to pass one off at the corner store and got two 7s and a 35 cent piece in change

wolfofthewisp, to random
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‘books that were used without permission to train generative-AI systems’ : searchable database - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/

TarkabarkaHolgy, (edited ) to folklore Hungarian
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I am still mulling over the idea of doing a folktale bracket for October... Have people nominate their favorite tale types and find some fun stories for each type, maybe. What say you all?

@folklore @SoniaSulaiman @juergen_hubert @SimonRoyHughes @neilphilip

wolfofthewisp,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy @folklore @SoniaSulaiman @juergen_hubert @SimonRoyHughes @neilphilip AT 505 : The Grateful Dead

juergen_hubert, to languagelearning
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Yesterday I had the first session of my " for Beginners" course. The teacher recommended that we should listen to Italian songs, and mentioned Zucchero Fornaciari in particular.

We'll see how that goes.

wolfofthewisp,
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@juergen_hubert sono disponibili altre canzoni antifa https://dailyitalianwords.com/bella-ciao-original-italian-lyrics-english-translation/

Kizzia, to FolkMusic
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Tell me, lovely people, what is your favourite folk song? Bonus points for a link to where I can listen to it!

wolfofthewisp,
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@Kizzia fave folk song? friend says Tam Lin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_Lin (i can’t decide amongst a handful of others)

juergen_hubert, to random
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Can anyone recommend free Software?

The ability to scan Fraktur typeset would be a bonus, but I'll take standard Antiqua font for starters.

wolfofthewisp,
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@juergen_hubert current favourite free ocr hack (single column best) : upload pdf to google drive, open with google docs, download text

ADHDefy, (edited ) to random
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Are there any good "feminist" #anime out there? It doesn't necessarily have to have overt philosophically #feminist themes (but it def can), just anime that have well-written, well-rounded leading women characters.

A lot of the anime I consume has mostly hypersexualized women characters (I don't go out of my way for that, it seems like it's just kind of a staple of the medium). For instance, I really like shonens, but they can be super fan-servicey. I'd like to shake that up.

I know there are some great Miyazaki characters, but other than that, I'm not aware of many others. #Recommendations are very welcome.

EDIT: I wasn't expecting so many replies! 0.o Looks like there are some awesome recommendations here, thank you all so much! ❤️

wolfofthewisp,
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@ADHDefy @juergen_hubert strong female characters are the backbones of several favourite manga/anime series : Kagome (Inuyasha), Tokine (Kekkaishi), Suzu (Ayakashi Triangle), etc

TarkabarkaHolgy, to ChatGPT
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A friend asked for recommendations on folktales where weaving and spinning plays an important role.

The recommended the Ugly Duckling.
When asked why, it said "the duckling makes magical clothes for the prince." 😂

This will probably change in the future, but right now, AI is very, very bad at folklore questions.

(Last time I asked it about mythical creatures in China, and it made up an entire nonexistent chapter of Journey to the West...)

wolfofthewisp,
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@TarkabarkaHolgy Google Bard better at folklore (sample size: 1) https://bard.google.com/

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