remember Andry Hernández Romero?

Makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero, sent to hell-equivalent in El Salvador by our government without a hearing because he has a mom tattoo on his arm, has been released from CECOT and sent to Venezuela, according to Rep Robert Garcia, quoting Andry's legal team. Not brought back here to be exonerated from the made-up charge, but better than being in prison, especially that prison. I did nothing to cause this after one initial email, but I'm glad other people were working hard.

Elves/Not Elves

I remember (possibly incorrectly) Jane Yolen in an interview saying that sometimes the characters tell her what to write. She gave an example that I don't recall, in which some elves walked into what she was writing. She said "there are no elves in this book." They replied "here we are." And then there they were.

There was a passing news story the other day saying that a middle-English word that had been translated as elves should have been more carefully translated as wolves. I didn't pay much attention, but then this morning there was a long post on language log about what had happened. I have not read the scholarly paper itself or much of the news stories about it but here is a video by the authors that is pretty succinct.

Watch on YouTube

I haven't read Troilus and Criseyde, come to think of it. I just linked to a video, not a journal article.
Am I part of the problem in modern education? (probably not, just short of sleep as usual).

Here's the language log entry
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=70110