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@tallinnstreets

Everything you never wanted to know about Tallinn. Esimene täielik Tallinna tänavanimede sõnastik pärast Aleksander Kivise "Tallinna tänavad". Parandused ja tagasiside teretulnud. For a more light-hearted 'analysis' of the French language, see @frogologue

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Quelques journées plus tard…
A few days later…

10.03.2026 17:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ma kummardan teie suurema teadmise ees! Pole eluski videomänge mänginud. 😉

10.03.2026 12:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jep!

10.03.2026 12:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seda nimetatakse sihtimiseks 😉

10.03.2026 08:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Mehaaniliselt ehk. Aga mõned parimad snaiprid on olnud naised.

10.03.2026 07:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And, of course, Trump can easily see Putin benefiting from this…

09.03.2026 23:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wouldn’t necessarily call it a failure. Is it not more a case of diminishing statistical returns in a world of staggeringly higher writer numbers today than 50 or 100 years ago?

09.03.2026 23:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sadly, true.
The so-called American exceptionalism and “freedoms” have led to a country of individuals untethered to a national state, where self is more important than the common weal. Trumpism has been growing and festering for decades.

09.03.2026 23:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, waiting 🙄…

09.03.2026 23:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Otsustades sarnaste olukordade põhjal, kus on vaja patsiente, detailidele tähelepanu ja täpsust, annaksin ikkagi naisele poolthääle!

08.03.2026 14:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Maybe they weren’t racist enough…

08.03.2026 01:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mis nende inimeste peast toimub?… Mitte midagi. Sõna otseses mõttes mitte midagi – uskmine ongi just see: kui sa lõpetad mõtlemise.

08.03.2026 01:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, but what about the books?

08.03.2026 00:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, and this one does seem to be the Võru equivalent of Estonian -kene!

07.03.2026 16:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks!

07.03.2026 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Võro-eesti-võro sõnaraamat Võro-eesti ja eesti-võro sõnaraamat ni seto-, võro- ja eestikeelidseq tekstikorpusõq.

Seda ma ka arvasin. Püüan selle sõna juuri leida:
synaq.org/index.php?va...

07.03.2026 14:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kas siin on #võru keelt kõnelevaid inimesi? Või oskab keegi öelda, mida tähendab see, mis näib olevat -kõnõ lõpp?
Aitäh 🧐

07.03.2026 14:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

And there are those who think my comments about religion are a bit too much!... 🙄

07.03.2026 12:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

¡Muy interesante! Pero ¿qué pasa con la longevidad? ¿Saben cuáles serían las tasas dos años o más después?

07.03.2026 12:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rachel Maddow on Kristi Noem: Five things to know about Trump's pick for homeland security secretary
Rachel Maddow on Kristi Noem: Five things to know about Trump's pick for homeland security secretary YouTube video by MS NOW

it’s not like we couldn’t have seen this coming (more than a year ago)…

youtu.be/sedx7rkSOMc?...

07.03.2026 04:57 👍 2863 🔁 683 💬 107 📌 27

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Called 6 senators today.

Only took me 20 minutes total.

Everyone needs to be calling.

When we say nothing, they think what they’re doing is fine.

The reason we got the Epstein files was because we were loud about it.

Don’t shut up now!

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05.03.2026 21:34 👍 405 🔁 173 💬 21 📌 2

We should abolish the United States Senate. It serves no purpose.

05.03.2026 21:41 👍 4699 🔁 940 💬 585 📌 134

It's really simple: go full Nazi, exterminate any never-Trumper or other group you don't like, pursue war till it engulfs the planet and kills millions and wait for 30-odd years for everyone to get over it and gradually start the same shit over again 75 year later. Worked last time.
Apols/negativity

06.03.2026 15:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

would open a massive legal and logistical can of worms. But?... Even if some people believe that a ‘one in a million’ chance happens once every ten times, it’s probably ‘head’. Sorry to waste your time…

If anyone has good photos of #KõrgepeaNukk they'd like to share, please send 🎉
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06.03.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#Pääsküla, etc.) – since hōven meant both to ‘hold court’ and ‘grant refuge’, perhaps this salient point could have been a symbolic landmark on the border where, leaving Tallinn jursidiction, #sanctuary was reached? Nothing certain here, ‘farm’ is unlikely: a border through someone’s property
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06.03.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
DIGAR

(see digar.ee TLA 230.1-I.325) writes #hoved not #hovet. If intentionally and not specifically designating it as a ‘head’ / ‘peak’, it (hōve or hōvede) could also mean small farmstead, fief or similar plot of land, or even – given Tallinn’s intriguing history of outlaw escape rooms (#Pelgulinn,
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06.03.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(see Lossi) – understood #hoved in the more northern #Germanic sense too (MLG hȫvet, head, cf. mod. Swed huvud) which fits the knoll’s topography. And this is probably the case. Now, some people in this book do go on a bit about spelling variations but the #parchment in question
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06.03.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

(named the high hoved, the ‘u’ being understood as ‘v’), translated from #MLG to Est. as ‘high-head’. Later historians have also called it #Kaldapea, ambiguous enough to mean either ‘bank-head’ (‘bank-peak’?) or ‘on top of a klint escarpment’. Both translations – MLG to Est. and MLG to mod. Ger.
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06.03.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

#KõrgepeaNukk (0)
High-head knoll, Not a street, a hill (or hilly area) some 60 m above sea level, one of the the highest points in #Tallinn, and related to enough names to merit an explanation. First mentioned in 1371 as a border marker of the city as dat hoghe houed ghenomet
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06.03.2026 15:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Ukraine has confirmed it will assist the United States in defending against Iranian-made Shahed drones in the Middle East, marking a notable expansion of Kyiv’s military cooperation beyond Europe.

05.03.2026 18:09 👍 375 🔁 107 💬 82 📌 28