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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning, Smilin! Thanks for The Band! Waving to you from Georgia 🤩🌞👋⚡

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 4h

there should be a /meddem/ before /meṣʕåyå/ in the transcription (it's correct in the Syr script)

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 4h

The bishop Sargis (Sergius), with whom T. also corresponds.

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Gooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 4h

I see a post with Syriac in it, I repost it. Those are the rules.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 4h

Syriac wotd ܡܨܥܝ /meṣʕåy/ "medial, intermediary" as in Timothy, Letters, ed. Heimgartner, 4.30 ܐܝܬ ܓܝܪ ܘܠܐ ܡܕܡ ܡܨܥܝܐ܈ ܒܝܬ ܨܠܘܬܗ ܠܐܕܢ̈ܘܗܝ ܕܐܠܗܐ /ʔiṯ gēr w-lå meṣʕåyå bēṯ ṣloṯ-eh l-ʔeḏn-aw d-ʔalåhå/ "There's no intermediary at all between his prayer and God's ears"

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A try in Syriac: ܡܢܐ ܡܥܕܪܝܢ ܠܡ̈ܦܐܕܐ ܐܘ ܢܘܗܪܐ ܐܘ ܒܪ̈ܘܠܝܐ ܐܢ ܗ̄ܘ ܕܥܡܐ ܠܐ ܨ̇ܒܐ ܕܢܚܙܐ /månå mʕaddrin lampēḏē ʔaw nuhrå ʔaw bērulåyē, ʔen-u ḏ-ʕammå lå ṣåḇē ḏ-neḥzē/ (For "glasses" 👓 I followed German and used a word rel. to βήρυλλος ≈ Syr /bērulå/; cf. Ciancaglini, /Iranian Lws in Syriac/, 128-129)

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 21h

Great, thanks! (It's forthcoming still, to be clear, but I hope you enjoy it when it's out in the world!)

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andrew phillips @herfst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The veiled bride (kallātu kuttumtu) also part of the incantation, is identified with Gula, goddess of medicine. This and a few other tablets from Assyria belonged to junior exorcist (āšipu ṣeḫru) Kiṣir-Nabû. Copied from older tablets, they add commentary that would help in the study of magic texts.

Line art of clay tablet with cuneiform text (reverse). The colophon (lines 56–59) indicates the text was copied from older tablets and is for the use of junior exorcist Kiṣir-Nabû.

Line art of clay tablet with cuneiform text (obverse). It includes explanatory commentary for selected passages of the Maqlû and Šurpu texts.

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you want to know why I’m so obsessed with medieval camels, you can read all about it in my article on ‘The Camels of Charles the Bald’ in which I talk about the time the ruler of Muslim Spain sent Charlemagne’s grandson some camels (dm me for a PDF). brill.com/view/journal...

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The Camels of Charles the Bald

Abstract This article investigates a previously neglected aspect of diplomatic relations between the Carolingians and the Umayyads of al-Andalus, the camels sent by Emir Muḥammad I to Charles the Bald...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Two weeks ago, the choral piece Immram/Sea-voyaging was premièred at the launch of Nauigatio St Brendani. The music was composed by Cian Grant, the Old Irish lyrics by are based on motifs from Nauigatio St Brendani and other sea-voyage literature. youtu.be/XnWHRIaTZww This is a first recording...

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you so much! This is great. Now I've got to hunt the record 🤩🎸

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I don't know but I been told if the horse don't pull you got to carry the load I don't know whose back's that strong Maybe find out before too long One way or another One way or another One way or another This darkness got to give"

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good morning, Smilin! Now listening! "One way or another this darkness got to give"

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Maia Kotrosits @maiakotro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Tips and hints for preventing anxiety: don’t treat students like cash cows, don’t criminalize protesting, don’t coddle rapists.

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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today In 1957: Milwaukee #Braves legend Eddie Mathews hits a 10th inning walk-off HR to win Game 4 of the #WorldSeries vs. the New York #Yankees at County Stadium! #MLB #Baseball #History #MIlwaukee #Postseason

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do you know Aaron Butts' article on reduplicated nouns (JAOS 131 [2011]: 83-108)? Here's a bit on Heb, including both of your examples, from pp102-103.

Half a page from an article on reduplicated nominal patterns in the Semitic languages, here on Hebrew.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not publicly. It's pretty complete, but I'm still adding & re-arranging things, and correcting. If you're interested, send me a message, and I'll share more 😎

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some quinquiliteral verbs in Gəʕəz – often with apparent reduplicated biradicals and initial -n-, all formed like an A-stem at the beginning – with a few example phrases (from my grammar)

A list of a few quinquiliteral verbs in Gəʕəz, followed by five example sentences in Gəʕəz with references and an English translation

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've got a few of them in a drawer

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 05/10/2026

OPINION: "Many of these facilities are in rural communities where federal funding cuts have hollowed out social services, from healthcare to food stamps, leaving them desperate for economic relief," Ella Siegrist writes. buff.ly/KLIHsk2

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Opinion | Immigration Enforcement Is Supplying an Economic Market for Prisoners

Ella Siegrist writes about how several states are using immigration enforcement and detention as a revenue stream.

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Phishing with Jim, a hot new show on Bravo

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some quinquiliteral verbs in Gəʕəz – often with apparent reduplicated biradicals and initial -n-, all formed like an A-stem at the beginning – with a few example phrases (from my grammar)

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please don't make your text edition with so small a typeface or with so many characters per line that we need one of these to read it

A hand holding a large half-spherical magnifying glass, with a multicolored (green, orange, red) tapestry in the background

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist, vibraharpist, or vibist."

en.wikipedia.org

Vibraphone - Wikipedia

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 02/10/2026

A171.0.3.1 God descends on rainbow.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don't s̲leep on this̲! S̲ome cool š̲it here!

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gratefully received, Smilin! Copacetic & philologic, so far. Here's you a righteous & groovin' Scarlet>Fire from today in '77 to get you into the weekend, and beyond.

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Scarlet Begonias -> | 1977-10-02 | Grateful Dead | Relisten

Paramount Theater Portland, OR, USA

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'll be appearing at a Thing in November – a sibilanty Thing!

Program of the online conference Linguistics and Semitic Philology Conference: Semitic Sibilants.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That should be /p̄ullåḡå/ (with two Ls), of course 😉

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If that's what the people want, haha. It's still in need of all sorts of editing, adding, and arranging, but if the signs are auspicious and my mood is right, I'll share some stuff that might be of interest or use for learners, esp.

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you haven't yet, also have a look at @gkiraz.bsky.social's /The Syriac Dot/, which includes some images, and more than most people, at least, will ever want to know about Syriac dots! (As George knows, I mean that as a compliment!)

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But vocalized is good when you can get it; overall, scribes don't nec. do it that regularly or in a thoroughgoing way. Here's IO 9, f. 51r b 6-7 ܐܝܠܢܐ ܕܐܟܠ ܗ̄ܘܐ ܡܢܗ ܐܕܡ ܬܬܐ ܗ̄ܘܐ ܕܠܐ ܦܘܠܓܐ /ʔilånå ḏ-ʔeḵal-wå men-ēh ʔåḏåm tēttå-wå ḏ-lå p̄ulåḡå/ "The tree Adam ate from was definitely a fig tree"

Two lines of Syriac in vocalized East Syriac script from a manuscript, in black ink

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Indiana putting the "fun" in "fungus"!

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A deluge of dots. Esp. in unvocalized texts, dots will help you wend your way amid Syriac grammatical and lexical options. Here are some common uses (from my grammar):

Two charts exhibiting the use of two different kinds of dots in Syriac, one for marking morphological distinctions and one for lexical.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#TEIFriday Can anyone give examples of magical texts (spells/curses...) encoded in TEI XML? Any language, date, etc. #digitalhumanities #ancientmagic

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ha, no complaints from me 🫡 If I'm not here for talk about vowels, script, and orthography, what am I here for?

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Adam Bremer-McCollum @acbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cheering on Albies & co. last night

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SMELL GOOD BABY 🪬🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I like the script but the niqqud are a fever dream and the hat man rolled into one

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