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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill

@jeltzz.bsky.social
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δοῦλος χριστοῦ. Latin, Greek, Gaelic, Patristics, Language acquisition. PhD. academic ronin. anti-fascist. thepatrologist.com

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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Important and comprehensive research being done on the state of AG pedagogy. If you fit the bill, please complete this survey!
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
εὖ γε!
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And... it has begun! First Old Irish as a Living Language classes. So glad to see this becoming a reality (slowly, but still!)
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You: "OCR is a solved problem" Me:
A screenshot of a page from The New Hampshire gazette, September 23, 1800, with text going in every possible direction, and brackets, and numbers
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy International Translation Day, dear translators!
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is technically too late to enrol in our Old Irish classes; they sold out within 12 hours! (eek!)
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not to late to enrol in my classes at #SeumasU. Starts next week: thepatrologist.com/courses/
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Courses
Currently open for Enrolment (starting October) Below are my current offerings, beginning in the first week of October (4th-10th). Click through to individual courses for more detailed information. P...
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why do you make all the coolest stuff??
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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One option for humanities classes going forward: don't schedule the class, schedule the work
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have always wanted to do this for language classes.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
but have you tried both?
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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 18/09/2026
Cuts include Celtic and Scottish Lit (UG), Celtic (UG), Celtic and Archaeology (UG), Celtic and English Language (UG)... Christ. As if we didn't have few enough Celtic Studies departments as it is. There'll be none of us left.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think if you started from a position of treating θεός and λόγος as referring to persons, not philosophical concepts, and you took a meaning like Brill GE's II, with acc (b), or understood as an expression of association, such as in Mt 13:56, 2 Thess 3:10, then the transl tradition makes more sense
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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gift article. Another way AI is impacting writing practices. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...
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Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived. (Gift Article)
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Interested in learning to *speak* Old Irish? I'm garnering interest in arranging an online course: thepatrologist.com/learn-to-spe...
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Learn to speak Old Irish
Several weeks ago I came across Francesco Felici's doctoral dissertation on teaching Old Irish as a living language. I wrote a little bit about it here, and some other thoughts here, and probably some...
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Probably better than my "a person not wealthy enough not to work"
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
please do!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I only have it in about 5 languages, so I will look forward to getting another soon
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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Despite their compromised positions, adjuncts still win teaching awards, publish books, and contribute widely to scholarship, literature, and the arts. And they do this even though their academic research and writing—meant to be supported by a tenured position—has been relegated to unpaid labor.”
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i am realising that my problem is that I neither got training in language teaching nor online language teaching, and both of those are huge areas to develop in. good thing I have stacks of cash lying around for professional development. oh right.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
are there any ancient greek textbooks for learners on the market that have an up-to-date treatment of voice?
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A very positive review, from the PoV of communicative language teaching, of Francesco Felici's PhD-thesis "Now You're Talking... Old Irish. Towards a conversational approach to teaching Old Irish", which he finished under my supervision last year: thepatrologist.com/a-history-of...
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A History of communicative methods for Latin and Ancient Greek, easily missed
I have just been reading the amazing and intriguing doctoral dissertation by Francesco Felici, entitled "Now You’re Talking... Old Irish Towards a conversational approach to teaching Old Irish", and I...
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
how far into an academic casual gig without a contract do I just stop working?
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As a thoroughly non-Canadian, I also love this song
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
euge!
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Did you know that early Christian ascetics who gave "everything" away often retained a single slave? Just out, a new study by Erin Dailey and Justin Pigott: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared thi...
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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 03/08/2026
If you’re teaching #Greek, #palaeography, #manuscripts, #textcriticsm etc. this coming year, consider adding my website to your course assignments or resources. It’s free, I don’t collect/sell your info, and it’d be nearly impossible to cheat with AI. See 🧵 for details
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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 03/08/2026
Cinderella's Dilemma - existentialcomics.com/comic/666
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Cinderella's Dilemma
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Well, I have found it. And a lot of other things along the way
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I have rediscovered lots of things that I probably should have paid attention to, none of which are the item sought
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
nothing like misplacing your PhD to instigate a panic-driven spring clean
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Well, in the last 24 hours I had one scholar I cold-emailed respond very kindly to my inquiries, and another scholar cold-email me in response to my writing about his work. Wonderful to connect with people!
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I recently re-did my website for all my ancient Greek and Latin related things; there's still some work to go, but I've returned to regularly posting about communicative language teaching for historical languages thepatrologist.com
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The Patrologist
Ancient Greek as a Living Language
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A whole PhD thesis on teaching Old Irish via communicative methods! mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...
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Now You’re Talking... Old Irish Towards a conversational approach to teaching Old Irish - MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
true, but the supply mostly meets demand, so the market is happy
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In 2021 I ran a 10-week RPG conducted in Ancient Greek. Can't believe that was so long ago. In 2027 I plan to return to running RPGs in Latin and Greek. Prepare your δόρυ καὶ τοὺς ἀστραγάλους γ
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Congrats! I look forward to a library nearby acquiring it for me :)
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thanks for sharing!
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
3 weeks into 2 different adjunct gigs, yet to hear from HR about actually paying me. what is with you people?
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...
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An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...
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Evan Caddy @excadthedra.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Alrighty friends, it's time for a little online rant about how Australia's system for supporting disabled people is flawed—or at least, how I'm currently experiencing that flaw.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
i just cannot do all the things
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
one of my favourite adaptations!
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
one great thing about the discourse is that you don't have to take part
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
yeah, i did not enjoy the self-conscious discussion of the bronze-age and the sea peoples.
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
overall I liked it a lot; there were a few choices to depart from the narrative that I didn't like, but at other points really delightful touches (Eurycleia, e.g.); I am still digesting some of the big thematic elements, in terms of the story that Nolan is telling. But it felt like a modern epic
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
one small advantage of living in future-land is seeing Nolan's Odyssey before the rest
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
gratias tibi multas ago, o magister benigne
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Seumas MacDhòmhnaill @jeltzz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My condolences.
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