Early Modern pronunciation of Latin in England was... really something, wasn't it

Because I happened to see it out in the wild today, I am doing my bit of disciplinary penance If you were good and did your homework, and learned that no Classical authors called people in Ireland and Britain Celts - actually at least one did! We were wrong and are sorry, signed, Celtic Studies

‘CELTIC BRITAIN’ IN PRE‐ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY, RECONSIDERED

For forty years archaeologists have avoided referring to pre-Roman Britain and its inhabitants as ‘Celtic’ on the grounds that contemporaries never described them as such. This is incorrect. The seco...

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Also, speaking of 18th-century Cambridge, this is very funny

Reading into 18th-century Cambridge, and it has a jargon of its own. If a student in 1783 earns a "first in mathematics," what does that mean exactly? On this list, who earned a "first in mathematics"? Just the top Wrangler? All the Wranglers? Everyone on all three lists?

This has got to be the worst hexameter I’ve ever heard. Quintilian would have an aneurism

Latin Quote Bot@latinbot.bsky.social · 5d ago

sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant - Children are children, and children do childish things #quotebot

I often think about how ancient nursery rhymes, children's stories, etc. have been lost to us, and allusions to them in the literature, which in that time would have been obvious even to a child, are now totally obscure

Mildly interesting: Pliny the Younger talks about how, a few days after the eruption of Vesuvius, the sun seemed dimmer and yellowish, like during an solar eclipse—and he had in fact seen an eclipse eight years before the eruption, when he was about 9 or 10 years old

A few years ago, when my kid was in a Frozen phase, I started a little project to make proctoring state testing less boring. Since then, I've worked on it when I couldn't watch or read anything (proctoring, long car drives, etc.) Now it's done, so here you go: "Let It Go" in Latin elegiac couplets

Elsa: Sparkling Ice Queen

ALT: Elsa: Sparkling Ice Queen

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I was once looking something up in the OED and the most recent citation was from Notre Dame’s student newspaper in like 2010. I found the author on Twitter, he had no idea that he was featured in the definitive record of the English language

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did not have “being an example in a dictionary” on my life bingo card, but here we are.

I went back to the old site to look at my Catullus 67 tweets, and wow, I was really posting through it, wasn’t I? In November 2020! Famously uneventful month

I GOT IT AND IT’S REALLY GOOD

I love these Italian nonna videos, they always teach me words with interesting etymologies Today it’s “melanzana” (eggplant), from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), with influence from the Italian “mela” (apple) With the definite article (اَلْبَاذِنْجَان, al-bāḏinjān), it’s also is the source of “aubergine”

Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦@luckyshitt.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nonna: You look hungry. We make you a sandwich The sandwich:

Cato the Elder has entered the chat

Trofe@jtrofe.com · 3w ago

There's a long history of conflating "owning a farm" with "being a farmer" going back to the founding fathers

Who remembers that account that used to post bizarre 70’s cookbook pages? I miss them. Here’s a photo of a dinner party in 1972, where the punch bowl seems to be filled with the liquid from inside a green glowstick

I’ll wait for the BMCR review of the edited volume on the reception to the reviews of the reviews.

This is the correct take. Unfortunately books are one of the things on Bluesky that you’re supposed to express love for as performatively as possible

evil maid@lenazun.bsky.social · 3w ago

there's no need to get outraged by every single thing. book destruction is not some kind of sin. it's not like they're trashing rare editions. lots of books get pulped all the time. now you're just looking for ways to be mad.

All right, I've got two hours and a cup of tea. May Apollo favor me as I prepare to slay the Python. I'll be liveposting the process here

Dan Conway@magisterconway.bsky.social · 4w ago

OK, I'm doing it: I'm going to try to figure out how Python works again.

OK, I'm doing it: I'm going to try to figure out how Python works again.

Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 4w ago

📝 New post 📝 "Introducing... LatinCy Vocab" Background on a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introd... #digiclass #teachlatin

Myth peeps: in Lucan’s catalogue of the inverted world he describes the Moon as hostile to her brother & claiming right over day from him. I can find some parallels for Moon & Sun switching routs but not for Moon as antagonistic to her brother. Am I missing an obvious parallel? #AncientBluesky

If I see one more “Lettuce is unsafe, eat [unhealthy food] instead!” joke I’m going to lose my mind

Had a dream where a café in the next town over gave out free samples every morning of cocktails inspired by the Pro Caelio

One of the chapter book spinoffs has a scene where Elsa and Anna are consulting old census records, and I was fascinated by this window into Arendellian bureaucratic record-keeping practices

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4w ago

My better half and I had a running joke before Frozen had a sequel that it's sequel should have been Elsa doing 19th century monarch stuff, like going to war with Denmark. Snow-golem army to seize Schleswig-Holstein sort of stuff.

My productivity has totally been derailed by finding this big guy on my front porch. Can anyone identify it? Central Pennsylvania

The options from my grocery run, ranked: Excellent: Frank San Pellegrino Frank LaCroix Good: Frank Pretzels Frank Candle Kinda weird: Frank Yogurt Frank Cough Drops Terrible: Frank Toilet Bowl Tablets Frank Hydrogen Peroxide So bad it’s good: Frank Baked Beans

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · last mo.

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

Hey @stoicquotes.bsky.social, quit unliking and re-liking the same post again, I know what you’re up to. So thirsty for followers… what would Seneca say? “You should set your mind, Lucilius, on rejecting the pleasure that comes from others’ praise of you” (EM 7.12).

This but unironically

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · last mo.

no one wants to consider my insane pitch which is to eliminate timezones across the planet so we’re all on the exact same time and force everyone to change their conception of what a day is

Omg it’s real

Latin Quote Bot@latinbot.bsky.social · last mo.

Qui me amat, amat et canem meam - Who loves me, loves even my dog #quotebot

Five favorite cities, no particular order. I’m not as well traveled as some of you folks but I’ve got a solid top 5 Prague NYC Lyon Naples Chicago Honorable mention to my hometown of Pittsburgh

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last mo.

QUESTION: What are your FIVE favourite cities anywhere in the world? Bonus points for persuasive explanations why your choices are “right.” Mine (in no order) are: Paris Barcelona New York Montreal Vancouver

New Italian word I learned from this: “tuorlo” (egg yolk), which is from Latin “torulus” (little bulge), from “torus” (bulge)

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · last mo.

Thanks to this lovely nonna, here's a recipe for making the real deal spaghetti alla carbonara. [🍝 nonnasilviofficial] Original post

Saepius Latine scribere conari debeo hic in Caelo Caeruleo.