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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Day of Reflection. Nobody can read everything that appears here each day, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
/u/boopoo3894's manuscript history of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations was very interesting and thorough. Really worth the gold it received. His follow-up answers are excellent as well.
BTW, your bot may be slightly broken. Its date format of +6 is not working for 2 weeks now.
Despite needing heavy moderation, I really enjoyed the thread on past usage of verbal filler and verbal disfluencies.
Within that thread, two sets of comments really stood out to me:
/u/yodatsracist gave a really fascinating discursion on 20th-century Turkish language reform, which was high on anecdotes but still pretty neat.
Also, /u/MaryRobinette gave us some insight into the way that court transcripts aren't always a good measure of the way the language was actually spoken at the time.