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classicist & medievalist at @medstudCEU @CEU. into languages, history of ancient & medieval sexualities, literature, beer, wine, sexy beards. bănățan. 🏳️‍🌈
Sep 18, 2021 18 tweets 8 min read
I know that sooner or later some of you (👀 @Arnold_Platon 😉 ) might ask: "is there a map?" so, I'm glad to tell you that there is! and a very telling one. 🧵 on words for '(sugar-free) plum jam' in #Romanian. this map shows the approximate regional distribution of terms for "plum jam" based on material collected by Emil Petrovici from 1929 to 1938 for Atlasul lingvistic român II. it reflects varieties of spoken, non-urban #Romanian which, at the time, were still relatively free of...