Everyday Footnotes A link blog. Bookmarks. Other things.

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Photo captions are occasionally uncredited Wikipedia excerpts, usually with a link back to the Wiki. I felt like perhaps I needed to disclose this.
"Persian […] had only one word for crying whereas Old Uzbek had one hundred. Old Uzbek had words for wanting to cry and not being able to, for being caused to sob by something, for loudly crying in gasps, for weeping inwardly or secretly, for crying ceaselessly in a high voice, for crying in hiccups, and for crying while uttering the sound hay hay."
Tuesday 11/8/2011

Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them