ROMAN SOLDIER: Caesar, here are the captured barbarians who have been raiding our borders ROMAN EMPEROR: When will you barbarians learn to cease harassing Our people? BARBARIAN: Actually, I've talked to my friends and they all say they've never done that and don't know anyone who has #NotAlamanni
Hesychius Word of the Day: Ī»ĪĪ¼ĻĪæĪ¹Ā· Ī±į¼± ĻĪµĻĪ·Ī³Ī¼ĪĪ½Ī±Ī¹ Ī¼ĻĪ¾Ī±Ī¹. 'coagulated snot' (Hsch. Ī» 641 LatteāCunningham)
Love reading an introductory book on Minoan archaeology published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press which straight up claims that it is "virtually certain that Linear A is an Indo-European language" like "Lycian", "Indo-Iranian/Sanskrit" and... *checks notes* "Hurrian".
Got a bit of light reading (a friendās two-days-ago successfully defended PhD dissertation) for the flight back home.
I have a new, open access article out today, co-authored with Jess Kruk and published in Language in Society: "Towards a Sociolinguistics of Deglobalization." Hope some of your find it interesting and useful. doi.org/10.1017/S004...
New publication! Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought includes my chapter on 'Classicising the Radical Imaginary: the Legacy of Athens in the Thought of Cornelius Castoriadis and Jacques RanciĆØre' along with a broad sweep of responses from ancient to contemporary.
