Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

@Athanasius_45 Boeckh’s Enzyclopädie is most important

Once you have mastered German, you can read these introductory works concerning the Greeks and Romans to get started: x.com/dominbydigdug/…

@PompeyTrogue You have a copy of this? Philological commentaries as dissertations are now illegal btw.

The 82-412 jump is one of the juiciest sights in classics. From J.N. Adams' PhD thesis - "A Philological Commentary on Tacitus, Annals 14, 1-54"

@uncle_deluge It was probably translated into the celestial real to be a new working-class suburb for the city of Enoch.

🚨🚨PUERTO RICO HAS DISAPPEARED ENTIRE ISLAND HAS GONE MISSING ENORMOUS GULF EMERGES BETWEEN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND VIRGIN ISLANDS CUBAN GOVERNMENT "KNOWS MORE THAN THEY'RE LETTING ON" PENTAGON REPORTS🚨🚨

@Robotbeat @AStratelates Thomas Sowell once said something like this.

Inspiring words from Christina Koch, first woman to venture beyond Low Earth Orbit as she was about halfway to the Moon.

@Steve_Sailer This is a bit like saying Christopher Columbus was wrong.

The rise of Freudianism from, say, 1900 to 1970s reflected the rise of Jewish influence. But, Freudianism turned out to be Not Even Wrong and just a waste of time/money. So, nobody talks about it anymore. After all, what lesson would we learn? That Jews can be very influential?

@SpeakSamuel @Y_SWargo

@Y_SWargo Why?

One overlooked but absurd issue with the birthright citizenship stuff: - Many Indian H-1B visa holders have already been sponsored for a green card, but must wait over a decade to receive one because of the per country caps. - Because they do not have green cards yet, the administration says their children wouldn't be eligible for birthright citizenship. The administration says that H-1B visa holders have not made the US their permanent home or primary allegiance, but green card holders have. This means that the cut off for whether somebody's child is eligible for birthright citizenship is simply the speed at which the government hands them a green card. An H-1B couple from a small country like Bangladesh can get their green cards quickly and have children be eligible for birthright citizenship. An H-1B couple from India can't get their green cards quickly and their children would not be eligible for birthright citizenship. This is all pretty arbitrary. Many Indian H-1Bs have been sponsored for a green card, lived in the US for a very long time and many already have purchased homes. They have quite literally "domiciled" in the United States to any extent that it matters. It just doesn't make sense.

@p_m_robinson Oh yes, those very words. Whenever I’m asked my name when making reservations or ordering coffee, I always say “call me Ishmael” in the hope of finding fellow devotees (never gets any bites though).

You and me both. "Call me Ishmael." That's all it took.

They all take nicer vacations than I do. Who is funding this stuff?

@uncle_deluge Also the Zoroastrian Arda Wiraz Namag in Middle Persian:

Don't ever let anyone tell you Dante invented hell as we understand it x.com/uncle_deluge/s…

Dante's Inferno isn't even the first Christian story about a guy walking through hell. But it was the crowning achievement of the genre to the extent that no one remembers any of the others

@JOttoPohl1 If you want to get hired in academia, just become trans or gay.

I think this is my main problem.

@Solzi_Sez @waronweakness He is really toying with readers here and quite artfully: “I’m not actually going to give you any details or facts” all while making you feel he’s about to, because they’re all unimportant—just like the main character’s birth. A masterful enactment of substance through form.

@realsymmachus @waronweakness Indeed. Tom Robbins was a family friend. He hit peak “linguistic portraying.” Also Roald Dahl wrote these pages-long portrayals. It is quite a skill.

Writing gurus : "Write short sentences and don't use big words" Charles Dickens in the first sentence of Oliver Twist: "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born - on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events - the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

@Solzi_Sez @waronweakness It’s not communicating; it’s portraying, effecting, steering. Writing like that is rather like painting or music and not a device for conveying information.

@waronweakness No idea what this is even supposed to communicate. 🗑️ Better to just say it and be done.

@razibkhan Descendant of Grover Cleveland (rust-colored turban dignity level).

Jonathan AC Brown. Convert from Episcopalianism and sympathetic to the Hanbali school. Very smart. good books A handsome countenance and nimble mind; only he most high knows why grace is given

@AkbashEfendi An instance of the second part of the phenomenon is Italian donna < Latin domina.

Interesting that in both Turkish and German, the early modern words for "woman" (avrat, Weib) underwent a similar semantic shift: they gradually became derogatory and were replaced by words that meant "noble lady" (kadın, Frau). Any similar examples from other languages?

@GrayConnolly What is your favorite thing that Julius Caesar did for ordinary Romans?

Sad to see RDS go down this unsound path - better the Caesar who did so much for #SPQR than the multitude of popinjay Ciceros and Catos whose Lilliputian conniving did so much damage to Rome & made Caesar indispensable

@BalaamAndDonkey Jesus was an American Indian, pal.

It’s fine to say Prophet Muhammad was not Saudi. I understand your criteria. But you must then be consistent. Socrates wasn’t Greek. Confucius wasn’t Chinese. Buddha wasn’t Nepalese. Jesus was not Palestinian. American Indians are neither American nor Indian.

@AncPhi He likely knew some Greek, since he was a carpenter and would’ve had the Decapolis as a potential market. But don’t overread: trilingual inscription actually means everyone *wasnt* multilingual. Jesus speaks Aramaic in the NT and quotes the Aramaic OT on the cross, not the LXX.

The entire New Testament is written in Greek, the existence and usage of the LXX (Greek Old Testament) demonstrates the dominance of Greek in the Palestine of Christ's era, the NT authors quote from the LXX overwhelmingly and predominately compared to the Masoretic (Hebrew), some double meanings that Christ used can only be said in Greek (e.g. anothen in John 3), the trilingual inscription (Greek, Latin, Hebrew) on Jesus' cross (John 19:20) shows the general polyglottism of the region, Paul's easily switching from Hebrew to Greek (e.g. Acts 21:37 ff, Acts 9:29) in his speeches demonstrates native proficiency with the languages indicating how Greek usage was not merely a scholarly or occasional tongue. In fact, given the contextual evidence, anyone who says that Jesus did not know Greek is very nearly entirely unfamiliar with the New Testament.

@Gurhi_jalebi No.

@eugyppius1 @husafell_stone It was God, not aliens.

thesis: bach was alien being, sent to earth on research project, during which he composed unauthorised musics for the landapes. i find bach vastly more powerful indication of extraterrestrial intelligence than blurry videos and tic-tac testimonies.

@jameszimmermann @douglassmackey Concert I wouldn’t mind: “Stolen for Star Wars: The Music of Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky.”

Movie concerts are cash cows so orchestras can’t say no to them. Musicians found them fun at first, but once novelty became the norm it got pretty demoralizing: The concerts are long, you’re not the main attraction, and most people leave during the credits. Lowbrow stuff.