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That is correct! Also, I did actually know about Lishan Didan, though I only know of it from general knowledge and not experience.

Neo-Aramaic is kind of an endangered language right now, I think it's also called Syriac? It also does have a number of dialects, one of my professors last semester happens to be an expert on it so I learned bits and pieces about it. I also tried to teach myself the Syriac alphabet at some point, it's very similar to our Assyrian script for understandable reasons and can kind of seem midway between it and Arabic, it's kind of cool.

Anyway. Syrians speaking Aramaic are a tiny minority, and the civil war in Syria wasn't helpful for their population. The Jews speaking Aramaic/Lishan Didan are actually more northern, I think? I'm pretty sure that the Jews of Damascus and Aleppo used Judeo-Arabic rather than Aramaic, which is interesting unto itself but I don't know how exactly all that came to pass.

lashanan in Hebrew would be l(e)shonenu (לשוננו). "-an" instead of "-enu" seems intuitive enough. lishan didan is a bit less familiar for us, but "di" is equivalent to the Hebrew shè prefix (-ש) and "dan" means "we", so you get הלשון שלנו (Aramaic doesn't have "the" before posession).

That is correct! Also, I did actually know about Lishan Didan, though I only know of it from general knowledge and not experience.

Neo-Aramaic is kind of an endangered language right now, I think it's also called Syriac? It also does have a number of dialects, one of my professors last semester happens to be an expert on it so I learned bits and pieces about it. I also tried to teach myself the Syriac alphabet at some point, it's very similar to our Assyrian script for understandable reasons and can kind of seem midway between it and Arabic, it's kind of cool.

Anyway. Syrians speaking Aramaic are a tiny minority, and the civil war in Syria wasn't helpful for their population. The Jews speaking Aramaic/Lishan Didan are actually more northern, I think? I'm pretty sure that the Jews of Damascus and Aleppo used Judeo-Arabic rather than Aramaic, which is interesting unto itself but I don't know how exactly all that came to pass.

lashanan in Hebrew would be l(e)shonenu (לשוננו). "-an" instead of "-enu" seems intuitive enough. lishan didan is a bit less familiar for us, but "di" is equivalent to the Hebrew shè prefix (-ש) and "dan" means "we", so you get הלשון שלנו (Aramaic doesn't have "the" before posession).

The PANC movement is a latin-american based botanical movement (started out in Brazil) focused on researching and cataloguing non-conventional edible plants, and man. There are so many straight up ornamental plants that just. are edible. you can eat them. you can grab a daylily and eat it. You can grab a begonia and eat it. Hibiscus, lavender, dandelions. And those are just the flowers. So many little herbs out there that are fully edible (Shout out to lamb's ear, that one tastes really nice imo).

Like straight up there is free food out there. foraging is so cool but it's so hard to find actual sources not made by either some AI fucker that's gonna end up killing you or by some crunchy "eating grass will cure your cancer" influencer. PANC is made by actual scientists that specialized in botany that have fully researched and found out that These Plants Are Fully Safe to Eat.

And not only that, but they're legitimizing native knowledge. They're taking the plants that our native populations have been eating for centuries and are proving, in a lab, that yeah, these plants ARE safe to eat - which is incredible. It might sound stupid (like ooo NOW you're willing to believe the native people) but this is so, so important, because having ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC PROOF of their knowledge is a way to combat the still pervasive idea that natives are "stupid savages", or that their traditions are just "wacky spirituality nonsense".

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day 11

‘pigecorn’

hot as fuck trans men exist

in this world we’re in

no i don't. cheers