Matthew Scarborough 𐏋

Say what you will about Mishima, at least when *he* attempted a government coup and failed, he immediately committed seppuku in disgrace. I can respect that much.

Yeah, I wouldn't push it too far since I don't know how much this happens in the numismatic record, but in saying that I was just throwing it out there that this is an orthographic thing that does happen in Italic epigraphy so maybe there might be a parallel.

So if you're borrowing colour terms and the target language doesn't already have terms for these different colours, they can get easily confused. (Which seems to be what happened in Albanian.)

Sorry if my post came off as passive-aggressive. Cross-linguistically languages tend to evolve from more basic three-colour systems (around red, white, and black) and then progressively adopt more terms of different hues, and green and yellow are in an adjacent perceptual area when adopted.

I feel like a scene from a Wim Wenders film was recorded here, but I'm too lazy to check.

I, a Canadian in whose English this is a normal construction, remember with horror getting judged by the then Cambridge professor of comparative philology after ordering dinner in a restaurant.

Ok, I may be out of my depth but it kind of looks like the Oscan letter ú which normally transcribes /o/ and if this was borrowed from a dialect that didn't front /o/ > /u/ as in Attic, that might make sense in this word? I'd need more context to more reliably judge this.

28 ἴδμεν δ᾽, εὖτ᾽ ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα γηρύσασθαι.”
/ídme̞n d eûte̞tʰé̞lɔːme̞n alɛːtʰéa gɛːrúːsastʰai/
And we know, when we want, how to utter true things.”
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I am referring primarily to the ladies bearing the names of countries on blocks of ice wearing head to toe silver puffer coats and massive googles.

I’m not sure if this opening ceremony is peak Italian, but it is at any rate very Italian.

27 ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα,
/ídme̞n pseúde̞a po̞llà légeːn e̞túmoisin ʰo̞moîa/
We know how to say many falsehoods resembling true things,
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Caption: You hear IPA and think of pretentious beer, I hear IPA and think of an alphabetic system of phonetic notation... We are both terrible at parties"

/tʃiɹz/ 🍻

You don't need to collect signatures. I'll think about it.

Well, if enough people want me to make a blog post doing a mini-review, I guess I could.

Book laid cover up on a desk: Grammaire Sanskrite à l'usage des étudiants hellénistes et latinistes, by Francine Mawet (Peeters, 2012).

New acquisition: Looking forward to perusing this.

My friends and I were making Austin Powers jokes about stuff in Homer way back when we were learning to read Homer and now suddenly I feel very old indeed.

Præcis.

Yet, culture being what it is, I can't help but read this and have intrusive thoughts likening the situation to some line delivered by some character from some film 27 years ago. Something about an obese scotsman? My poor ageing brain.

The phrase ἐσκάτθετο νηδύν "he put it down into his belly" occurs three times in Hesiod's Theogony (487, 890, 899) describing either Kronos devouring the stone offered in place of the infant Zeus or Zeus devouring Metis.

25 Μοῦσαι Ὀλυμπιάδες, κοῦραι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο·
/môːsai o̞lumpiáde̞s kôːrai diò̞s aigiókʰoio̞/
(viz.) the Olympian Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus:
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Awwwwe

But you have to understand, this *is* an anime boss battle.

Today in reading Hesiod: Th. 853, following a description of Typhoeus and the din of battle, we pan to Zeus:

Ζεὺς δ᾽ ἐπεὶ οὖν κόρθυνεν ἑὸν μένος, εἵλετο δ᾽ ὅπλα
So when Zeus raised high his might and chose his arms...

Desperately trying not to write "Zeus raised his power levels..."

I'm glad you're still around. :)

Something like this could work.

Then suddenly a rogue AI appears in the city, only speaking PIE, but the PIE it learned was from being trained on the PIE of Pokorny's outdated Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, making the humanities and historical linguistics relevant again.

I kinda want to write a fanfic in the Cyberpunk setting about an exasperated non-tenured adjunct professor scraping by a precarious living working in the Department of Classics and Modern Languages at Night City University, critically underfunded because now anyone can get auto-translation implants.

It may be worth sending off a quick email to Alin Suciu of the Göttingen Academy. He's spent a lot of time reconstructing the dispersed fragments of the library of the White Monastery and if he can't tell you what it is, he'll at least get another fragment for his database.