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PatrickOBeirne

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Personal account. Interests are choral music, humour, and language.

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fen , to random
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The wordle people should be relocated to one instance only so I can easily block them. Filters don't work as they find new ways for their wordle stuff to popup in my explore tab. I don't understand why they keep posting about wordle. There's plenty of hobbies and shared trait groups and none come close to the amount of posts wordle people do. Are those messages automated or something? I don't even know what wordle actually is but I now have a deep hatred of it.

PatrickOBeirne ,
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@fen block the word.
I can't remember whether you can block words without hashtags, try anyway.

It's a word guessing game.

PatrickOBeirne ,
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@fen but they must use
the W word otherwise who would know what they were talking about?

@FediTips specifically mentions the W word

https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/

TheVulgarTongue Bot , to histodons group
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BANAGHAN. He beats Banaghan; an Irish saying of one who tells wonderful stories. Perhaps Banaghan was a minstrel famous for dealing in the marvellous.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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PatrickOBeirne ,
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@TheVulgarTongue @histodons
We know it as 'that beats Banagher'

https://offalyhistoryblog.wordpress.com/2022/01/08/well-that-beats-banagher-a-humourmous-expression-of-amazement-by-kieran-keenaghan/

TheVulgarTongue Bot , to histodons group
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CATERWAULING. Going out in the night in search of intrigues, like a cat in the gutters.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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PatrickOBeirne ,
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@TheVulgarTongue
That has now changed to making a wailing noise.
Similar to 'cat melodeon'

appassionato , to bookstodon group
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The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age by Steven Mithen

The Language Puzzle explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us knowing over 50,000 words.

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Drawing on the latest discoveries in archaeology, linguistics, psychology, and genetics, Steven Mithen reconstructs the steps by which language evolved; he explains how it transformed the nature of thought and culture, and how we talked our way out of the Stone Age into the world of farming and swiftly into today's Digital Age. While this radical new work is not shy to reject outdated ideas about language, it builds bridges between disciplines to forge a new synthesis for the evolution of language that will find widespread acceptance as a new standard account for how humanity began.
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    • PatrickOBeirne ,
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    @appassionato @bookstodon
    1.6M years? His previous book "The Singing Neanderthals " dated symbol manipulation on which language depends to, I think, 200,000 years ago.

    Boerps , to classicalmusic group German
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    Mahler - Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"

    Hilde Rössel-Majdan
    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
    Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
    Conductor: Otto Klemperer
    Recorded in 1962, at London

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkLIKptIqGo

    PatrickOBeirne ,
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    @Boerps @classicalmusic
    https://thechoralsingerscompanion.com/mahler-choral-music.php

    “my heart was pounding as we stood up—so scared—and then we sang—we were perfect—and from then on it was tremendous—so gorgeous—the fugue—the tremendous ending—singing our hearts out—the tears right there—feeling so great—everyone immediately stood up & cheered & applauded—SO FANTASTIC—me singing with the Pittsburgh Symphony!”

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