Post a banger that isn't in English (I discovered this one while hanging out in the pub in Jena that's run by the German Green Party and started googling the lyrics of the song they were playing. Great album overall 10/10)

You know, people don't talk enough about how apparently, according to Hesiod's Theogony, Odysseus and Circe have at least two kids, Agrios and Latinos, and they're said to rule over the Tyrrhenians in a place somewhere very far away.

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.

28 ἴδμεν δ᾽, εὖτ᾽ ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα γηρύσασθαι.” /ídme̞n d eûte̞tʰé̞lɔːme̞n alɛːtʰéa gɛːrúːsastʰai/ And we know, when we want, how to utter true things.” | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – – |

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, | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ |

/tʃiɹz/ 🍻

New acquisition: Looking forward to perusing this.

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: | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ |

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 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.

My copy of the Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch is one of the coolest books I own. bsky.app/profile/dclb...

Doing linguistics for all these years and I still have yet to find a more satisfactory way of annotating a vowel space in a table that can be used in a Word document.

I am so tired of the repeated attempts of Deans and Provosts to try to kill us.

21 ἄλλων τ᾽ ἀθανάτων ἱερὸν γένος αἰὲν ἐόντων. /állɔːn t aːtʰanántɔːn ʰierò̞n gé̞nos aiè̞n e̞óntɔːn/ And the holy lineage of other immortals existing for ever. | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – |

Drafts?!?

Fell down a Wikipedia rabbithole on X-Files lore having only watched a few episodes of the series back in the 90s and wow they were really wilding with that one.

Fair and Balanced™

Sunday January 25, 2026.

The amount of personal economic pain I am willing to suffer in exchange for Canadian leadership publicy telling him to shut the fuck up is endless.

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There's something just really satisfying about scanning a few hundred lines of hexameter at a time.

My new Driver's Licence / government-issued ID came from an envelope labelled "Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction". Wow, this province is in worse shape than I thought.

15 ἠδὲ Ποσειδάωνα γαιήοχον ἐννοσίγαιον /ɛ̞ːdè po̞seːdáːɔːna gaiɛ́ːo̞kʰo̞n e̞nno̞sígaio̞n/ And earth-holding Poseidon, the Earth-shaker, | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – |

In 1995 Mike Judge predicted the internal logic of the future AI tech bubble with this one clever metaphor.

14 Φοῖβόν τ᾽ Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν /pʰoîbó̞n tapó̞llɔːna kaì árte̞min io̞kʰé̞airan/ And Phoebus Apollo and arrow-pouring Artemis | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – |

Nearest book—page 42—second sentence "εὐρύοπα (514, 884) is formed by analogy to these nouns in -τᾰ; see 514n."

Akademikerpension lad os fucking gååååå

I've gotten as far as the unit on how to tell time in the Duolingo Japanese course and my god is learning how to tell time always my least favourite part of language learning.

Went out to get some pizza toppings at my local President’s Choice and found the good stuff, weirdly with Scandi-regional branding for unknown reasons.

oh well

I miss being able to go online and make dumb jokes about philology and that would be the entire point of being on the posting website but nooo other people had other things in mind.

The mainstream media is beginning to read like The Onion and I don't like it very much.

fake history guys think about the Roman empire. real past heads contemplate the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

If we've learned anything from the past year it should be obviously disqualifying for Gavin to run for president because he is a podcaster.

#OTD 146 years ago, Wilhelm Siegling (1880–1946) was born 🎉 He was an Indologist and expert on Sanskrit, Avestan, Tibetan, and especially Tocharian. Together with Emil Sieg (1866–1951), Siegling discovered and deciphered the language, and they also coined the glottonym. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

5 καί τε λοεσσάμεναι τέρενα χρόα Περμησσοῖο /kaí te lo̞e̞ssáme̞nai té̞re̞na kʰróa pe̞rmɛːssoîo/ And having washed their delicate skin in Permessos | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – ⏑ |

Look at my baby! ☺️ I reedited Modole folk stories published 110 years ago Old journals and archives are full of story collections in underdocumented languages, often difficult or impossible to access for both linguists and the speaker community. Using legacy material is valuable and sustainable 🙌🏻

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4 ὀρχεῦνται καὶ βωμὸν ἐρισθενέος Κρονίωνος. /o̞rkʰeûntai kaì bɔːmò̞n e̞ristʰe̞né̞o̞s kro̞níɔːno̞s/ And the altar of the very mighty son of Kronos, they dance. | – – | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – |

I hesitate to add that the only strategic priority listed for SSHRC (humanities and social sciences) in this Tri-Agency initiative seems to be "democratic and community resilience" and uh, at this juncture I don't think we should be trusting the Americans on this one.

So my latest "I need another project to pass the time in unemployment" is...

3 καί τε περὶ κρήνην ἰοειδέα πόσσ᾽ ἁπαλοῖσιν /kaí te̞ pe̞rì krɛ́ːnɛːn io̞eːdé̞a pó̞ss haploîsin/ And with tender feet around the violet-dark spring

Random complaint: I can't stand that Canadian English has unceremoniously followed American English by calling banknotes 'bills'.

2 αἵ θ᾽ Ἑλικῶνος ἔχουσιν ὄρος μέγα τε ζάθεόν τε, | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ | Who hold the mountain of Helicon, great and sacred,

1 Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθ᾽ ἀείδειν, | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | Let us begin to sing of the Muses who dwell on Helicon,