Will [Normal OT/HB Studies Journal X] like my long, highly specialized comp-phil-ish article with phonology and materials from numerous different linguistic families which still ends up in a sort of "theological" argument (in the academic sense of the word)? Hmm... questions...

Ugaritic phrase of the day: spr ẓlm ("document of shades"). Pictured: Jonas Brun's wonderful novel "Skuggland" ("Shadowland"). A personal favorite of mine. So, so sad, though...

Just heard on YouTube: "Greek is a more philosophical language, so Greek-speakers thought in more metaphysical categories [...] Latin is a more legal language, so Latin-speakers thought in categories of morality and authority". Ugh.

The Swedish RPG miracle, for those not in the know - really good overview: youtu.be/GVASRMumGjI?...

Mina två senaste (2025 och 2024); trots genreskillnaden är familjelikheten större än man kunde tro! / My two latest books (2025 and 2024, respectively); despite the difference in genre, the family resemblance is greater than one might think!

Mina två senaste (2025 och 2024); trots genreskillnaden är familjelikheten större än man kunde tro! / My two latest books (2025 and 2024, respectively); despite the difference in genre, the family resemblance is greater than one might think!

Parthian word of the day /dašt/ "desert, plain" as in Sundermann, MKG, 799-801 /aδyān až dūr maδyān dašt kadag ēw wēnēndēh/ "then from far away he sees a house in the middle of the plain" /wēn-ēndēh/ is optative, a so-called "parabolic optative," on which see Durkin-Meisterernst, Gramm., §810

Ugaritic phrase of the day: spr ẓlm ("document of shades"). Pictured: Jonas Brun's wonderful novel "Skuggland" ("Shadowland"). A personal favorite of mine. So, so sad, though...

*Snoigwhos!

Oh, I just happened to begin writing a new article (on a debated issue of Ugaritic morphosyntax). Just kinda fell into it :-)

ʾăḏāvaḥŏkkis(ĕ)...?

Doing a new rewatch of SPOP. And man, how damaged Catra is. Like, she seriously needs treatment... I'd honestly forgotten how disturbed she is around seasons 3 and 4.

Editing myself, so to speak. This article has sure grown! Wrote the basic thing in Rome in April and May, but lots of stuff has been added since then. There's Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sam'alian, Hittite, and Luwian in there.

Got laffs in the thread about the terminology, but I will say that the idea of "modus energicus" (albeit a bit nebulous) is very badass. I remember starting Hebrew as an adolescent, reading in Engnell's grammar that Hebrew had "jussive, cohortative and remnants of the energicus" – that blew my mind!

New book on Indo-European Afterlives (dowloadable as an Open Access PDF)! : www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/books/e/10.1...

"It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones."

Ugaritic word of the day: tšʕlynh ("she lifted it/him/her up").

People today must be metaphysical idealist monists, given how much they refer to an "absolute unit"...

My own copies have arrived / författarexen anlända!

Ugaritic word of the day: Ugaritic word of the day: ʾiqnʾu ("lapis lazuli", "lapis lazuli-colored", "blue", "violet blue", "purple").F

Lookie lookie what's arriving next year: www.booktopia.com.au/human-ness-a...

Nya boken "Den undflyende ormen" uppmärksammad av Hedengrens i Sthlm: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

16) the best historical pronunciation of Hebrew is the Provençal one, for the sheer audacity of its consonant shifts. sorry, I mean: fe beff hiftorical pronunfiasing of Hebrew iv fe Provençal wung, fokh fe seekh audafity of iff confonanf siff.

I truly do hate the fact that someone chose not to use NA as the default version of Unicode cuneiform.

Counterpoint: a proto-Germanic bagel would be stale beyond toasting now

so theoretically we could reconstruct Proto-Germanic *baugilaz "bagel" (or at least "ringlet"). the intransitive verb in Proto-Germanic was *beuganą 'to bend' (G. biegen), from which a causative *baugijaną 'to bend something' was also derived (G. beugen)

The Eagle has landed! Or, well, the Dragon, rather.

Wooot wooot! "Den undflyende ormen", min nya bok, kan nu beställas (här Bokus, men också annorstädes). Semitisk- och indoeuropeiskspråkiga drakar och stormgudar åt folket!

Mycket rolig, insiktsfull och positiv understreckare av Kristoffer Leandoer i dagens SvD om min nya bok "Den undflyende ormen: Kampen mot drakar, kaos och undergång från Bibeln till vår tid"! (På Nirstedt/Litteratur)

Wooot wooot! "Den undflyende ormen", min nya bok, kan nu beställas (här Bokus, men också annorstädes). Semitisk- och indoeuropeiskspråkiga drakar och stormgudar åt folket!

A new video by (self-described!) Generic Irish PlayStation Man! Huzzah!

New name for a linguistics rap group: "MC Thinks and the Quirky Subjects".

Actually using the (scattered) parts of my unfinished Classical Hebrew primer in teaching feels very good indeed!

Ugaritic word of the day: šbʕr ("to shine, to illuminate" – Š causative of bʕr, "to burn").

It's still warm! New article after post-seminar changes. Will go over it thoroughly once more, pen in hand, reading as though it were by someone else (as far as that is possible!) before submitting it.

Watching Agents of SHIELD season 6 on one half of the screen and fixing the bibliography for a new article on the other. There are certainly worse ways to spend a night!

When I hear someone on YouTube saying "Three years ago, when everybody on the internet was Reformed Baptist..." – then I know people live in very different worlds.

American "What is Sweden like?" youtuber pronouncing "köttbullar" as "chut-blah". One point for trying, I guess.

Very cold ice cream in rose hip soup (Sw. nyponsoppa) is one of the greatest inventions of modern life. Especially when bits of the soup freeze. Utter perfection.

Gothic Lundensian Academia.

There I go again, adding a passage on a Luwian text to my manuscript on Northwest Semitic poetics. Will I ever learn.

This beautiful little poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa plays cleverly with English and Irish,how words shift in meaning and emotional resonance #poetry #poemoftheday #gaeilge

Once upon a time (be it said,quite a long time ago), I thought the name of the magazine Granta was from Sanskrit grantha. Would have been cool.

Ugaritic word of the day: šbʕr ("to shine, to illuminate" – Š causative of bʕr, "to burn").

Mycket rolig, insiktsfull och positiv understreckare av Kristoffer Leandoer i dagens SvD om min nya bok "Den undflyende ormen: Kampen mot drakar, kaos och undergång från Bibeln till vår tid"! (På Nirstedt/Litteratur)

Ugaritic word of the day: ʔdm ("to be red", "to become red").

JENOVA! JENOVA! JENOVA!

Alp landscape with two churches and a castle. Reifenstein Castle (Burg Reifenstein/Castel Tasso) in South Tyrol (Südtirol/Alto Adige) in northernmost Italy. Taken in July 2022. #photography #italianlandscape #alplandscape #alps #mountainscape