Sign in

Robin Leroy

@eggrobin.bsky.social
162 followers 202 following 211 posts

𒉭​𒄿𒈾​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒊭​𒁾𒎌​𒉈𒁍𒌑𒌝 An egg drowning in a sea of papers 𒉭​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒁾𒁀𒅗​𒁀𒀭𒋢𒋢 一颗在论文海中的蛋 𒄠𒋛𒆠 mastodon.social/@eggrobin

PostsRepliesMedia
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
En irlandais, certaines lettres restent minuscules quand le texte est composé en capitales ; on ne va pas avoir un « h » différent du « h » pour que la transformation de « Parlaimint na hEorpa » en « PARLAIMINT NA hEORPA » soit non contextuelle.
Les mots « PARLEMENT EUROPÉEN » dans toutes les langues officielles de l’Union Européenne. En irlandais, « PARLAIMINT NA hEORPA ».
220
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
La différence est claire ici :
010
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
My current bookmark:
A copy of Leroy Ladurie’s Les paysans de Languedoc with the label from a bottle of château Trotanoy 1985 used as a bookmark.
120
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I can’t find scratch calculations lying around, but these 2014 maths lecture notes and these notes from an Assyriology conference last year are probably quite heinous too… (At the Assyriology conference my converter was broken so I was refilling every 15 min, though I don’t think that’s visible.)
A page of handwritten lecture notes from a course on the algebraic method in combinatorics, discussing the Borsuk–Ulam theorem.A page of handwritten notes from an Assyriology conference, including the beginning of a talk by Devecchi and Chambon titled “Capacity units and administrative practice”
010
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
That reminds me, it’s been a while since I’ve sent you pictures of brioches…
A brioche on a small wooden cutting board on a stone table, with A Grammar of Akkadian in the background.
110
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
20th century german sumerologists are pretty good at this too
From Anton Deimel’s Liste der archaischen Keilschriftzeichen von Fara:
Gud. B 2, 18; 𒅅, 𒅅, 𒅅, pass. z. Zt. d. Dyn. Ur
020
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
See Kouwenberg, The Akkadian verb and its Semitic background, 2010, p. 558 n. 160, for a discussion of that (though hardly a clear answer).
In sum, there is plenty of evidence for the strong paradigm in (Pre‑)Sargonic Akkadian. There is, however, also some counter-evidence consisting of weak or at least weakened perfectives. To start with the latter, there are a few perfectives in proper names with assimilation of ʾ to a preceding r. Instead of yirʾam and yirʾib, we also find yirram and yirrib: Ìr-rí-bum HSS 10, 187: I 7 (Gasur), and Ìr-ra-am-DN MAD 3, 230. This shows weakening of ʾ but not (yet) adaptation to the weak paradigm (which would give (y)irām and (y)irīb). This may be a specific development of the cluster r  ʾ and/or restricted to proper names. Yirrib also occurs in Ur III Babylonian names; Hilgert (2002: 362–68) lists Ìr-rí-ib and Ìr-rí-bum alongside (DN-)ìr(-e)-eb and I-ri-ib/íb, etc.), perhaps as a survival from Sargonic Akkadian, since Babylonian shows no other traces of this change. However, the assimilation of ʾ to a preceding consonant may also occur in some Old Assyrian nouns (see Kouwenberg 2006: 164–65) and it is definitely found in original III/  ʾ and III/  ʿ verbs in Middle and Neo-Assyrian (see 2006: 172–73 and §17.8.3 below, p. 578).160. A baffling problem in this context is posed by the name Narām-Sin, which contains the deverbal instrument noun that the dictionaries list as narāmu ‘love’. In the dialects that preserve post-consonantal ʾ, the regular mapras form would be narʾamum, and this form is indeed attested in the Old Assyrian feminine proper name Narʾamtum (Na-ar-am-tum Prag I 467:3, alongside Naramtum [Na-ra-am-tum ICK 1, 17b:3]). The fact that Sargonic Akkadian consistently shows a form without ʾ, both as a noun in (PNF) [na]-ra-ma-at lugal AKI p. 44 S‑24:4 ‘PNF, favourite of the king’ and as a part of proper names (passim, e.g., NarāmSin) is hard to explain, apart from the circular statement that in proper names ʾ is more prone to beingdropped than elsewhere. Or are these forms perhaps borrowed from a specifically Babylonian environment? In Babylonian, post-consonantal ʾ has already been dropped in the earliest texts we have, but obviously we do not know how early this change has started. If these names have indeed been borrowed from Babylonian and narʾam(t)um has undergone the Babylonian development of post-consonantal ʾ, the correct form of the noun is nāramum rather than narāmum.
100
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I might have an answer. In Notepad on my desktop (left) I have the same issue as you do. On my laptop (right) all is well. My desktop is running Windows 11 23H2 (10.0.22631). My laptop is running Windows 11 24H2 (10.0.26100). Time for some Windows Update…
List of dual-joining Arabic letters by Unicode Version from above. Those from Unicode 8.0 and later are not joining.List of dual-joining Arabic letters by Unicode Version from above. Those from Unicode 8.0 and 9.0 are joining.
210
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Ah, so this isn't how you use it?
A stick of green sealing wax being held up to a ceiling.
100
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Sadly shipping slices of brioche from Normandy to Maryland may prove impractical…
A brioche.
110
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
That black background is unhelpful…
010
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
So SkySat C-1, this pass (about 55° altitude at azimuth 260° at the given time; the pass culminated at 72° at 15:12:54).
210
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Cute Ιξίων graphs:
000
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Not sure how far off-nadir they go, but it looks like there are two of those passing above 45° in the next three hours (from climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/ixion/).
100
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Screenshot of the Bluesky 🔔 Notifications, 💬 Chat, and #️⃣ Feeds tabs, with the word Chat changed to 𒀭𒅎𒎌 ᵈIM.MEŠ.
020
Robin Leroy @eggrobin.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
By playing with the URL parameters one can get a higher resolution, and it is clear that it is really 𝄲, with two vertical lines: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5...
120