Sixty years ago, a trailblazing sci-fi series that wouldn't have existed if Lucille Ball hadn't intervened, and Gene Roddenberry imagined a better society, capable of dealing with whatever existed where no one had gone before, took flight. Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek!👽🚀

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in Polish you use the word "temu" to talk about the past, because recollections of the past are merely cheap knockoffs of our experience in the moment

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On This Day In 1764 Mikiel Anton Vassalli Was Born https://www.byteseu.com/1920032/ Mikiel Anton Vassalli, widely regarded as the father of the Maltese language, was a central figure in shaping Malta’s linguistic and cultural identity. Born on this day in Żebbuġ in 1764, he pursued his …

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LSM (Lingwa tas-Sinjali Maltija) or Maltese Sign Language is the third official language of my father's homeland. www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/nationa...

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This morning’s annoyance. Even when being nicely positive about language diversity, why forget basic fact checks? Just counting national languages, we easily get four *families* in Indo-European, Uralic (Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, plus Sámi), Semitic (Maltese), plus Basque.

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