The staples of the average peasant working the fields were bread, beer and bacon.
I wish I lived on that.
Oh, another interesting nugget is that apparently in England, in the Middle Ages, the “left hand taboo” applied. It was perfectly alright to eat with the fingers so long as those those fingers were on your right hand, the left hand being the one used for “wiping”.
This custom is still prevalent in India and probably many other places as well.
the last move in this position is called “phallus nobi”.
Also: nous mangeons.
So I’ve taken up Middle Egyptian recently and I’m working through Allen 2014 and Werning 2015. Great fun.
They talk about their insei years and a game between them in pro exam. If only I could understand what they’re saying.
磊磊
らいらく
rairaku
“a large pile of rocks”
It uses six lots of 石, the kanji for stone. Jisho also supplies a secondary meaning “openheartedness”… there appears to be an allusion to rocks that are, in this case, not weighing one down.
I started to seriously study korean 8-10 years ago. Because of starcraft - 100 %. Now, i don’t even have hangul in my system (i think). Is there anyone interested in penpaling korean e-mails? I want someone to destroy me on my grammar and have a nice chat at the same time 
Do you watch Yeonwoo’s Korean channel?
The typically Korean bouncy format with its frequent subtitles might be helpful.
Honestly no. I like her videos but have never thought of adding subtitles. I’m checking it out not, let’s go
I mean hardcoded subtitles appear on some of them.
Ok, not exactly what I was looking for LOL. But still good 
My offer of penpaling still stands though
On the topic of spelling, from the NSFH thread, I remembered this recent article:
https://aeon.co/amp/essays/why-is-the-english-spelling-system-so-weird-and-inconsistent
Printing houses developed habits for spelling frequent words, often based on what made setting type more efficient. In a manuscript, hadde might be replaced with had ; thankefull with thankful .
There’s a lot more interesting tidbits, this is just one example
I read just now that ageing is apparently the British English spelling.
But I only ever see aging and I had to look up whether ageing wasn’t just a typo.
Americanisation continues…
Today I spent 2 hours being distracted from my studies trying to pronounce the name of the Yugoslavian mathematician Stevo Todorčević (since I recently realised that I’ll probably have to give talks regularly and don’t want to mispronounce names, also it’s just fun to learn how to pronounce new sounds).
After struggling with the difference between č and ć, I made a bit of a breakthrough on a different front, since I think I finally managed to get my alveolar trill working! I’ve been able to pronounce the uvular trill for as long as I remember, as part of Dutch (my personal accent has a uvular trill, other Dutch people have an alveolar trill, even within the same dialect it sometimes differs from person to person), but the alveolar trill was so far the hardest thing to try pronouncing.
So, poll time:
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Now I’m curious which R is the one @gennan uses
How do you pronounced lured?
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I think I say lord when I’m paying attention and lurd when I’m not.
somewhere in between?
We haven’t done a Radical Review for a while, have we?
Let’s explore 石, stone. Definitions from Jisho.
岩 boulder, rock, cliff
妬 envy
拓 clear land
宕 cave jinmeiyo
矼 stepping stone
研 polish, sharpen
砂 sand, grit
砕 break, crush
柘 wild mulberry jinmeiyo
砌 time, occasion
砒 arsenic
斫 cut with a sword
破 tear, defeat
砲 cannon, gun
砥 whetstone, grindstone jinmeiyo
砧 block for beating cloth jinmeiyo
砺 whetstone
砿 ore
This my big Achilles’ heel. My dialect has a voiced uvular thrill (the french one is unvoiced), my girlfriend the prettiest alveolar trill you’ll ever hear. When I try to speak Swiss German with the alveolar trill, I apparently have an Italian or Rumantsch accent; I put to much breath into it and can only do the flap ɾ properly. My deficit is not that obvious when I speak Italian or Rumantsch (I hope), but with Spanish pero and perro I’m lost. My rr sounds more like ʓ.
Yeah, I hope I can get better at doing it more clearly… mine is so breathy right now, but then I only learn how to do it half a day ago