Hey #HoPWaG fans, don't forget to check out our new spinoff podcast on cross-cultural philology!
It launched a few days ago with three initial episodes, on philology and science; the Cain and Abel story; and the ancient language Aramaic!
pagesofhistorypodcast.net
#podcast #philology
#philology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #philology, aggregated by home.social.
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Just a fun thought for the linguists and philologists out there: Does it 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 make sense for the term 'hapax legomenon' to have a plural?
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Michael Ventris, who deciphered Linear B, the syllabic script used to write Mycenaean Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B], died #OnThisDay 70 years ago.
Others had paved the way, notably Alice Kober [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Kober], who had analysed the script and discovered evidence of inflection, which was a starting-point for Ventris to correlate signs representing syllables that had (e.g.) the same consonant sound but different vowel sounds.
John Chadwick, the philologist who became Ventris's collaborator after his initial breakthrough, wrote an excellent account of the decipherment for the non-specialist in ‘The Decipherment of Linear B’: https://archive.org/details/deciphermentofli0000unse_o2q4 (multiple copies on @internetarchive)
Attached is the ‘tripod tablet’, whose discovery was an important confirmation of the correctness of Ventris’s system, and its transcription from Chadwick's book.
#language #linguistics #philology #decipherment #LinearB #Histodons #GreekLanguage #Greek #AncientHistory #OTD
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Gronas & Orekhov: The future of philology is semantic. Texts as linked data, machine-readable annotations, interconnected cultural heritage. A vision of the "corpus of all corpora." Crowdsourcing + AI + TEI standards.
https://nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/gronas_orekhov.pdf
#DigitalHumanities #SemanticWeb #Philology #TextEncoding #CulturalAnalytics
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If you want to get a sense of what merrie olde England was like, consider that the Middle English word balgh-staf "knobbed club" is much better documented than the MEng for "tailor's iron" https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED3535/track?counter=1&search_id=5277638 #medievodons #middleEnglish #philology
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Yazvitsky's 1812 verse translation of "The Lay of Igor's Campaign" — long thought to rely on Shishkov's prose — actually borrows heavily from Siryakov's obscure 1803 version. My textual analysis reveals dozens of identical phrasing choices, unique epithets, and even whole lines. A case of early Russian literary appropriation, with Siryakov conspicuously uncredited in Yazvitsky's preface.
https://nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/Yazvitsky_SPI.pdf
#SlovoOPlku #TranslationStudies #RussianLiterature #Philology #TextualBorrowing
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Nazirov's diaries: who were they written for? This paper traces the addressee shift from "future mass reader" to the author's mother — transforming the diary from a writer's workshop into an intimate moral document. A fascinating look at Soviet intellectual subjectivity through ego-documents.
🔗 https://publications.hse.ru/pubs/share/direct/211540625.pdf
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How do you read an archive that was never meant for outsiders? Orekhov explores Nazirov's manuscript legacy — handwriting types, cryptic folder markings, attribution traps, and why even "чорт" after 1956 isn't a reliable date clue. A must for textual scholars and archive nerds.
🔗 https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/tekstologiya-nazirovskogo-arhiva-1
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Philology students were asked why literature matters today. Their answers: almost entirely clichés—"spiritual enrichment," "history textbook," "moral guide," "intelligence booster." Nearly none gave examples. The paper argues this unreflective "myth of literature" clashes with pragmatic value systems, distorts how students perceive modernism.
PDF: nevmenandr.github.io/portfolio/assets/pdf/axio.pdf
#Literature #Philology #Axiology #Education #CriticalThinking #Humanities
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"Today, Jefferson's prediction that "American" would eventually divorce its mother tongue seems extraordinarily unlikely. Instead, the proliferation of new words has only enriched the language we share."
-- David Robson.
#English #language #philology
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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1/5 🧵 Every university has one room larger on the inside than outside. For me, that room belonged to Tanya Reinhart: philologist, Marx reader, fearless mind, huge heart. She taught that language is never innocent. A headline can hide an army. A silence can hide a crime. 🕯️ #TanyaReinhart #Philology #Marx #Lenin #Israel #Academia #Language #Politics #Memory #Justice
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Muses and Theophany_Muse e Teofania 💫
#multimedia #sacredfeminine #femininity #poetry #art #youtube #youtubeshorts #youtubevideo #Muses #theophany #philology #HistoryOfReligions
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Muses and Theophany 🪷📜🧚♂️ Muse e Teofania
#poetry #art #philology #theophany #Muses #youtube #youtubeshorts #multimedia #youtubechannel #EmbracingFemininity #WalterFriedrichOtto
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Comilites! Loeb Classical Library is having its annual 25% off sale with code EPICS until 30 July! https://www.hup.harvard.edu/series/loeb-classical-library #classics #philology
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“Before Method, There Was Objection: Old Angry, Modern Angry, and the Proto-Scientific Value of Disagreement”
Abstract:
This article examines the role of Old Angry and Modern Angry discourse patterns in pre-Indo-European systems of observation, classification, and practical experimentation.
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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize | France | The Guardian
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The Fairytale Language of the Brothers Grimm
By Chi Luu
How the Brothers Grimm went hunting for fairytales, accidentally changed the course of historical linguistics, and kickstarted a new field of scholarship in folklore
Brothers Grimm at PG:
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The gold medal for deception: How a professor created an international award out of thin air.
In 2016, Florent Montaclair stepped into the spotlight when he received the Gold Medal of Philology, a sort of Nobel Prize for the discipline.
In fact, the award was created by Montaclair himself. It took an investigation by Romanian journalists to uncover this hoax, which is now the subject of a judicial inquiry in France.
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New three-part publication set presenting a comprehensive system-theoretical framework for the structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript:
Monograph: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410209
Entry Note: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410808
Executive Summary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410495Author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1546-7234
#Voynich #AcademicResearch #SystemsTheory #Musicology #Archaeology #Philology #CognitiveScience #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities
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REMINDER: Journal of the #TEI: Call for Nominations for Editor
The Advisory Board of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (jTEI) seeks nominations and applications for an editor. Self-nominations are encouraged.
Review of nominations will begin on March 30, 2026. We will continue to review nominations/applications until the position is filled.Mor information: Call for Nominations https://docs.google.com/document/d/14kXn2FZ4WcQQ0e7pSZ26aCGTh328q_acLInXpLWDGQg/edit?usp=sharing
#digitalhumanities #scholarlyEdition #linguistics #philology cc @TEIConsortium
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Fun exercise! A blog post written in nearly a dozen different snapshots of English.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english #English #philology #linguistics -
Rise, fall, and modern revival: hurrah! #archaic #English #language #philology
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Archaeoethnologica: Studies in the Atharvaveda - Book / Estudos sob o Atharvaveda - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/11/estudos-sob-o-atharvaveda-livro.html
#Indology #indoeuropeanstudies #India #indiantexts #sanskrit #vedas #vedic #Asia #linguistic #philology #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Studies in the Atharvaveda - Book / Estudos sob o Atharvaveda - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/11/estudos-sob-o-atharvaveda-livro.html
#Indology #indoeuropeanstudies #India #indiantexts #sanskrit #vedas #vedic #Asia #linguistic #philology #books #openaccess
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Okay, so "redact" and "react" are from the same word stems (re + agere, although react uses the past participle actus), but coined about 200 years apart.
Wait, where'd the "d" come from, I hear you ask? Well, the "re-" prefix used to take a "d" in front of stems that started with a vowel, like redeem, redundant, redolent.
Then later we stopped adding the "d" but we kept making words. Hence "react."
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OGLE: Egad if she don't Marry me, she's the arrantest Jilt in Christendom.
--- Susanna Centlivre, The Beau's Duel: or, a Soldier for the Ladies. A comedy (1715)
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The rise and fall of the exclamation "Egad!"
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Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/10/linguistica-historica-e-filologia.html
#Linguistic #Indoeuropeanstudies #philology #greek #homeric #online #talks
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Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/10/linguistica-historica-e-filologia.html
#Linguistic #Indoeuropeanstudies #philology #greek #homeric #online #talks
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Archaeoethnologica: Historical Linguistic & Philology - Talks / Linguística Histórica e Filologia - Palestras
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/10/linguistica-historica-e-filologia.html
#Linguistic #Indoeuropeanstudies #philology #greek #homeric #online #talks
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Archaeoethnologica: Studia Celtica Posnaniensia Nº 9 - 2024
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/08/studia-celtica-posnaniensia-n-9-2024.html
#CelticStudies #Linguistic #philology #irish #welsh #insularceltc #journals #OpenAccess
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Latvian philologist and poet Kārlis Vērdiņš, born OTD in 1979, has authored many academic papers on literature, published four volumes of poetry, and written librettos and lyrics https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/latvia/?s=mb #travel #philology #poetry
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Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abordagens-da-linguistica-celtica-livro.html
#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abordagens-da-linguistica-celtica-livro.html
#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Approches to Celtic Linguistics - Book / Abordagens da Linguística Céltica - Livro
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/abordagens-da-linguistica-celtica-livro.html
#Linguistics #celticstudies #celticlinguistics #philology #celticlanguages #languagechange #palaeolinguistics #books #openaccess
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**Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language**
"_Here, we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains does indeed suggest that the Xiōng-nú and the Huns spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language and that this was an early form of Arin, a member of the Yeniseian language family._"
Bonmann, S. and Fries, S. (2025), Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng-nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo-Siberian Language. Trans Philologic Soc. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12321.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Linguistics #Language #Philology #Academia #Academics @linguistics
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Classic post: the biggest Assyriological film festival in history https://www.bookandsword.com/2018/12/02/the-biggest-assyriological-film-festival-in-history/ #histodons #ancMedToot #philology #cuneitoot