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OR some extremely long, detailed, overly specific Spotify playlists inspired by books I have read over the years and turned into my personality
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Secret History by Donna Tart
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
“My cat got a cold and the vet recommended a warm compress for his eyes. I think he’s enjoying his spa time.”
(Source)
“…Impressed by the power of Charlemagne (died 814), Slavic people took his name Karl as the common name for ‘the monarch, sovereign.’ However, according to the rules of late Proto-Slavic phonology, the consonant cluster [rl] could not hold. The pressure to dispose of it was common to all speakers of Slavic dialects, yet the way the problem was resolved turned out to be different in the South, North-East, and North-West. The Southern Slavs employed a simple metathesis ar > ra: Serbian кра̑љ, Bulgarian крал (also Czech král); in Polish, the metathesis was accompanied by a shortening and eventual change of the vowel: król; in East Slavic languages, the problem was resolved by adding another vowel between the consonants (the so-called pleophony): Russian король. The meaning remained the same everywhere: ‘king.’”
[from the introduction of Boris Gasparov’s Old Church Slavonic]
