UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.
Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.
Deeply sad news (from her son's FB post) that the great late antique and Byzantine historian, Averil Cameron, died this morning. The towering figures of Oxford of my youth are passing away.
i do not care if Trump's comments result in nothing tonight. no one who even thinks of saying the phrase "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" should be allowed to operate an ice cream stand, nevermind the most powerful office on the planet
@akkhan81@landlawlahore My impression is that the pendatic argument is partly also against some nativists who decided to insist on Farsi. But certainly makes for an interesting contrast with other cases, like below: (someone else also mentioned the "Bharat, not India!" discourse) https://t.co/Eh7bwfuung
While my Iranian/Iranist colleagues fight for the use of the term Persian in English, some of my Turkish compatriots push for the use of “Türkiye” in all languages. We should leave the languages alone. I’m for Persian and Turkey.
@akkhan81@landlawlahore Yes, weird but I think precisely because it's a pedantic losing battle against everyday speech, which probably began to change with more Iranian immigration to the West and their endonym slipping into Enligsh.
@landlawlahore@akkhan81 It doesn't seem to correlate nearly with politics (if anything, some of those described actually prefer to say Farsi). My sense is that it began as an academic attempt to discipline changing colloquial usages. https://t.co/k0i6nI38A3