home.social

#philology β€” Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #philology, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it 𝘳𝘦𝘒𝘭𝘭𝘺 make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
    #linguistics #language #philology #humour

  2. Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it 𝘳𝘦𝘒𝘭𝘭𝘺 make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
    #linguistics #language #philology #humour

  3. Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it 𝘳𝘦𝘒𝘭𝘭𝘺 make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
    #linguistics #language #philology #humour

  4. Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it 𝘳𝘦𝘒𝘭𝘭𝘺 make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
    #linguistics #language #philology #humour

  5. Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it 𝘳𝘦𝘒𝘭𝘭𝘺 make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
    #linguistics #language #philology #humour

  6. **Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library**

    β€œ_The results reveal that most manuscripts contain fewer than 20 excerpts, but a small number show much higher levels of excerpting, highlighting the immense intellectual and literary activities implicated in their production._”

    Maeir N (2025) Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0320265. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0.

    #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Culture #Charts #Religion #Taxonomy #Christianity #Analysis #Philology #Syriac #Academia

  7. New publication from your Philological Essayist! First longer translation from Syriac. Second part of the first sermon of the Book of Steps will be translated in a next publication on the same Substack channel! #Syriac #Philology #Christianity #Translation open.substack.com/pub/philolog