Today's reminder that the opposite of "atheist" is not "believer in the Bible" (whatever that means).

Idea: Version of the manga "Go! Go! Ackman" intended for specialists in Greek lyric poetry, called "Go! Go! Alcman".

Two ways to make passive verbs in Ruus Al Jibal: 1. Stem VII (yɨnCɨCɨC) yōkɨl 'he eats' ➡️ yɨnwɨkɨl 'it gets eaten' √w-k-l 2. "Internal passive" yōkɨl 'he eats' ➡️ yūkal 'it is eaten'

This council could have been an ostracon

Eblaite word of the day: *ʕiṣ̂u(m) ("wood", spelt i-zu or ì-zu).

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Han heter "Mumintrollet". Inte "Mumin". Slut på meddelandet.

Ugaritic word of the day: ntbt ("path, way, road").

Birgitta Stenberg är en av de svenskspråkiga författare jag håller högst. En makalöst badass person, och stilistiskt och tematiskt sett något som liknar ett slags korsning av Anaïs Nin och beatförfattarna. Inte direkt en dålig kombination.

Ugaritic word of the day: ntbt ("path, way, road").

Revising an article manuscript after comments from the research seminar.

गणानां त्वा गणपतिं हवामहे कविं कवीनामुपमश्रवस्तमम् । ज्येष्ठराजं ब्रह्मणां ब्रह्मणस्पत आ नः शृण्वन्नूतिभिः सीद सादनम् ॥

Please, remix guys on Youtube – state clearly if you just AI'd "your" work into existence. Don't hide behind vague Youtube labels which could mean anything. Or even better: do the damn work yourselves. Sooooooo much AI music flooding Youtube, it's not even funny.

Ugaritic word of the day: tšỉḫrhm ("you hold them back, you delay them").

Ugaritic word of the day: tšỉḫrhm ("you hold them back, you delay them").

Baalei tekiah who borrowed someone else's shofar be like "not to toot my own horn..."

PSA: Modern speakers do not own ancient versions of their languages.

Happy birthday to @dameboudicca.bsky.social ! Love you!

Ugaritic word of the day: ṯ-ʕ-r ("arrange, order").

Ugaritic word of the day: ṯ-ʕ-r ("arrange, order").

New desk/electric piano setup!

Hurrian word of the day: ḫamri, or, with the so-called "article", ḫamarre ("shrine, sanctuary"). Also borrowed into Luwian as ḫamrit-.

The conference volume "Song, Prayer, Scripture: Aspects of the Reception of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible to the 21st Century", ed. Davage & Tiemeyer, is now published. In it, I have an article on the use of Psalms in the Élu Coën Order! www.academia.edu/126450146/Ps...

Given that the great Robert Redford has gone to the great Beyond, the following skeets feels reskeetworthy.

It's really cute how good American evangelicalism has been at producing Youtube atheists.

Ugaritic word of the day: mỉzrt (/maʔzaratu/ [?], "ritual garment").

Ugaritic word of the day: mỉzrt (/maʔzaratu/ [?], "ritual garment").

Normalize rendering Beowulf's "Hwæt!" into Swedish as "Joråsåatteh...".

Kunde inte någon av alla de där andliga poddarna intervjua mig om andliga saker någon gång? :-) Vore kul att prata lite rolig mystik, hermetism, martinism och/eller nygnosticism.

Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live: ogham.celt.dias.ie Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.

Spännande skriven bok om världens mest spridda språkfamilj och dess urspråk protoindoeuropeiskan. - Ola Wikander: Ett träd med vida grenar (2007)

Ugaritic word of the day: ʕṣp (meaning unclear, but perhaps "storm, violent wind").

Curious what me and my team have been up to recently in my QurCan project? Have burning questions about Quranic manuscripts and Quranic reading traditions? Make sure to tune this Wednesday on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGW7...

One thing that irks me about how my native language (Swedish) is sometimes perceived is the way in which both some of its own speakers and others tend to downplay its morphological and derivational complexity. I'm like: come on guys, parse ""genomtröskandenas" for me!

Me too.

Hittite word of the day: Keššar ("hand", directly reflecting Proto-Indo-European *žǵʰes-r-; cf. Greek χείρ, and with different suffix and root vocalization, Sanskrit hasta-).

The magnificent Ely cathedral, England. Photo taken in 2022. #elycathedral #medieval #middleages #cathedral #romanesque #architecture

Hittite word of the day: Keššar ("hand", directly reflecting Proto-Indo-European *žǵʰes-r-; cf. Greek χείρ, and with different suffix and root vocalization, Sanskrit hasta-).

Proofs for Dragon book sent in. Ded. Metaphorically, that is. You know, like in a complaint Psalm.

Edited volume.... submitted!

Those AI-based summaries of papers that Academia.edu keeps throwing at us willy nilly really are exceptionally bland and devoid of substance. Bleh. Avoid.

I remember a discussion on Quitter about how "High" in language names tend to signify topography/geography, not status or standardization, despite fictional exx. like "High Valyrian". One that breaks this pattern, however, is the Fenno-Swedish term "högsvenska", "High Swedish"...

Potes every hour. Potest every hour. Possumus every hour. Potestis every hour. Possunt every hour.

Ok, this (and the following) is legit hilarious.

In one Norse saga, there's a reference to an event happening "und Harvaðafjöllum" – 'under the Harvaða mountains'. This unique mention of "Harvaða" is thought to refer to the Carpathian Mountains, from a borrowing of Latin Carpatēs so old that it shows the effects of Grimm's law on the C, P and T.

Scotia est omnis divisa in partes tres...?

Just heard an apologist-bro online refer to Caesar's famous work "The Gaelic Wars".

When James Bond visits Cambridge. Or at least his iconic Aston Martin D85. #Cambridge #streetphotography #vintage #vintagecar

Going to OTSEM conference / arriving at OTSEM conference.

Indexing this and indexing that.