David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦
@mihalyfy.bsky.social
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🙋 Dayjobber 📚 PhD in Religion ☀ Obsessed with Egyptian-Coptic historical linguistics Bylines on everything from cults to culture. Low-volume posting (focusing on writing and research!). www.mihalyfy.com 🇺🇲 Illinois, U.S.A.
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I suddenly have a lot of new followers, so I guess I'm on a list...?

Anyhow, a quick introduction to me and my recent work (especially on religion & Egyptian-Coptic historical linguistics).

CC: #Egyptology #Linguistics #LangSky

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textundblog.bsky.social
This Turkish yogurt cake, adapted from the cookbook “Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean,” is similar to a lemon-scented cheesecake, but it’s lighter and has a fresher, tangier flavor. It’s good both warm and cold, either on its own or topped with berries… #nyt (€)
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This Turkish yogurt cake, adapted from the cookbook “Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean,” is similar to a lemon-scented cheesecake, but it’s lighter and has a fresher, tangier flavor It’s good both warm an...
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
A stunning 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass amphoriskos.

📷 Getty Museum www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

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Getty Museum photo of a translucent, dark blue, two-handled, glass flask (amphoriskos) against a grey background. The free-blown body is bulbous in shape, with a narrow neck with a flattened rim. The two handles were added afterwards and attach to the body and mouth. The handle on the right has been attached slightly higher up on the body than the other side. Height 10.5 cm. There is some incrustation on the interior of the glass.
mihalyfy.bsky.social
That is hilarious. Romanian humor is indeed very endearing.
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erinbartram.bsky.social
This just happened again and it really drives home the extent to which scholarly orgs could build great bridges with museums/historical sites by figuring out how to help them get access to scholarly materials. Those places might, in turn, help support those orgs with people and money.
erinbartram.bsky.social
Working at a museum without access to a university library means spending 6 years thinking about/reading Mark Twain & his reception and then every time I think I had an original thought it turns out @mattseybold.bsky.social tweeted it out in the form of a peer-reviewed article a decade ago.
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ausir.bsky.social
btw funny that the most common word for grandma among Polish-Americans seems to be "busia" which actually in Poland it is still only used in two counties (it used to be used more widely, but still regionally), unlike the general Polish word "babcia"
map of Poland with only Leszno County and Wolsztyn County marked
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simongerman600.bsky.social
This might come in handy one day at a trivia night?
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mihalyfy.bsky.social
🚨 A new theory, just debuted at NACAL 48! 🚨

This pharaonic title is like "Exalted & Mighty."

1st bit = N + S-stem of '3 "great" (> Coptic ⲛⲉⲥⲱ "beautiful").

2nd bit = C1(V?)C2V(:)C2 adjective related to b3 "power" (cf. ⲕⲙⲟⲙ "black").

Blogpost to follow.

#Egyptology
#Linguistics
#AncientBlueSky
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hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social
I am fascinated by the prevalence of this Sendai dialect mascot. You could even hold little speech bubbles with tokens of Sendai dialect in them!
Me posing with the Sendai dialect mascot.
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simongerman600.bsky.social
A bit of linguistic cartography to brighten your day. This map shows how the words for camel 🐫 spread across the Old World.
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almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day
as many journalists are frantically googling "lászló krasznahorkai" today, i can't stop giggling

because what i know and google doean't is that there's another guy with the same quite rare name: a lad who writes not-really-nobel-worthy lyrics for various hungarian goth bands
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mattboot.bsky.social
some notes on toddler (3yo + couple months) German so far:

everything is "das" right now; she doesn't really do gender differences of any kind yet. i'll say "danke für die hilfe" and she will say it right back to me as "danke für das hilfe". even in English everybody is he/him/his to her.
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emuehlbe.bsky.social
My review of Paula Fredriksen's Ancient Christianities is up at BMCR:

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review share.google/agnGwlBZmvkJ...
Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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mihalyfy.bsky.social
It also seems to be an honorific transposition in this interpretation.

N + S-stem = passive + causative.

So, flagging the passive reflects badly on the pharaoh?

But causative is okay because it highlights action of gods (and also is inseparably built into the reed sign).
mihalyfy.bsky.social
Btw it's way beyond my research abilities/expertise, but the title that I'm calling "exalted" is more like "magnified" ("was-made-great")...

I've run across the word '3 "great" used in funerary contexts in later periods.

I wonder about possible cultural connotations?
mihalyfy.bsky.social
Thanks! This involves some speculation on the use of b3 as a term applied to multiple animals... I would love your feedback when I write up a blogpost!
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