Greetings from Armenia, where the Armenians are gracious enough to let me try some basic phrases in their language – which is thrilling for an Indo-Europeanist like me. I'm getting a kick out of ordering two things with երկու (yerku) 'two', the unbelievable Armenian cognate of two/deux/dos/dva/etc.

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An excellent thread (in French) about the police violence in France. I am so sorry for all the YP who have to discover this in this way (many will have known already e.g. because of racialization).

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I have a lot of complicated feelings about *gestures wildly*

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It does contribute to my ever so slightly disorientating experience of getting emails from well-intentioned people where my first thought is like "have you met a student? Ever?"

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(No one is at fault here, from either side, the uni sees those connections as potentially valuable, students, except for a handful of examples, do not?)

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