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A touching quote from Nimoy's "I am Spock" book (1995) (startrek.website)

EU_Commission, 10 months ago to random

📖 Books inspire us and broaden our horizons.

That's why readers in Europe should have access to the richness and diversity of European literature.

#CreativeEurope helps its translation and promotion via many initiatives, such as:

• CELA, a programme to train and connect emerging authors, translators, and literary professionals;

• Every Story Matters, a project to boost the creation and promotion of inclusive #books for children and young adults.

More: https://europa.eu/!Cxpb4K

#BookLoversDay

The interior of the Livraria Lello e Irmão in Porto, Portugal, with its forked staircase connecting to the gallery on the first floor. The books are orderly organised in wooden bookshelves and on tables. © Adobe Stock Photographer: Naris
The exterior of Atlantis Books bookstore in Santorini, Greece, with books painted on the front facade with the blue, white and orange plaster standing out as a visual frame surrounding them. © Adobe Stock Photographer: Kira
The Aqua Alta vintage bookstore, in Italy, with its signature piles of vintage and old multicoloured books forming a stair and a helm standing on the right side. © Adobe Stock Photographer: Agata Kadar

azforeman, 11 months ago to linguistics

"Six Moods of Rōdakī"

In which I read some passages from the poet Rudaki (9th-10th centuries) in a reconstruction of Early New Persian pronunciation and also in my English translation.

Complete with nasalized long vowels, still quite peripheral short vowels, and phonemic /xʷ ð β ɣ q w ē ō/. The text shown, as before, uses ذ for all instances of /ð/, and ڤ for /β/.

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