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Scottish pancakes, I believe.

Saw your dad last night, he was at the

It's a shame that my bouzouki is in a storage locker on the other side of the world on another continent right now.

It'd be really interesting to see if more normative sources like Atticist lexica treat these differently from sources like Hesychius who collect all manner of random stuff, but a lot of this stuff is really outside of my area of expertise.

I have a suuuuuuuper niche question about tense usage in Ancient Greek lexicography who do I know who might know stuff about this???? All pointers and bibliography suggestions greatly received!!! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Granted, Hesychius has some of these conjugated forms *probably* because they're *presumably* real forms from actual texts (that exist or allegedly once existed) so that might be biasing that actually occurs there.

For what it's worth, I just did quick and rough count at the verb forms from Hesychius in my project dataset and of the stuff there there were 36 (pres. & aor.) infinitives versus 29 conjugated forms (mostly 3.sg. forms) and 4 participles.

Ahh, that's useful to know!

They can, apparently. Which obviated my factfinding trip back to Canada to talk to some dairy farmers myself. So much for that grant proposal idea.

Then after lunch one colleague takes time to look up YouTube videos made my Canadian dairy farmers to try to settle the question.

Love working in a discipline where lunchtime conversation seamlessly transitions from why does this etymology not work (unless you assume this one scholar's weird ad hoc sound law) to an alternative that involves grazing, to having to go find out how efficiently do cows graze in snow, actually?

Maybe it was a happy ending for Johnny Silverhand.

Maybe it was a happy ending for Johnny Silverhand.

I'm probably going to try The Tower some point, but I think I borked that one on my playthrough because I ended up not wanting to do anything with any of the characters from The Phantom Liberty at the end of it all.

I mean, ok that’s an artistic choice and I can respect it.

Doing a little reading afterwards. There is basically no happy ending to this game, is there?

war... war never changes.

I finished Cyberpunk 2077. The Sun ending. I'm not crying. You're crying.

this implies the existence of a Yaoi Gagarin

They don't do academic dress in Denmark so I don't know how my co-workers feel about this.

Hi I'm wearing flannel and a big floppy hat.

Just another totally normal day at the office struggling to write this report.

Apollo has entered the chat.

Moi, un philosophe: Nous sommes tous l'étrange manuscrit grec qui est un désastre total.

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

The administration is aware of black bloc tactics, was vaguely aware of clown bloc tactics, but was completely unprepared for the advent of Animal Crossing bloc tactics.

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’ This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

tories have this duality where they will thunder about humanities degrees being rip-off waste of time but will tell starry-eyed how you Boris Johnson is a genius because he memorised the first six lines of the Iliad in Greek, which you can in fact do without even knowing Greek

Sims-Williams & de Blois (2018) spotted.

Figure 1. Migration to Rome in the Greek epigrams from Rome (n = 46).

Interesting new, open access article in Greece & Rome blends epigraphy, poetry on stone (Greek epigrams), and tracing ethnicity:

“Dying Greek in Rome: Greek Funerary Epigrams from Imperial Rome” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I love this: ‘κάλλος δ’ αὖ μετὰ μοῖραν Ἀμαζόνος ἔσχεν ἄπιστον’

Logograms with unknown or uncertain readings (p.593) MONS2, mountain-man (L.4.1–3) EMPIRE (1) MONS2+tu, RN Tudhaliya (IV): YAZILIKAYA, nos. 64, 83; seals: SBo I, 63; NİŞANTEPE 2, nos. 89–94, 96–98, 100, 102–109; alternates with MONS+tu (see L.207). (2) MONS2 AVIS3-nu(wa)-tá, RN Arnuwanda (III): seals, SBo I, 64; NİŞANTEPE 2, nos. 138–140. (3) On back of stag: apparently not mountain-man, but deity representing Stag-God (so accoutred): SCHIMMEL rhyton, ALTINYAYLA stele, NİŞANTEPE, nos. 136, 482 (= SBo II, 222); NİŞANTEPE, nos. 185–187 have long skirts but not scaled as mountain men; only NEWELL shows scaled skirt. The deity represented is Kuruntiya (DN, PN).

Some more context from Hawkins & Weeden (2024) Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Berlin: De Gruyter, p.593.