David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦
@mihalyfy.bsky.social
🙋 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.
📚 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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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦
@mihalyfy.bsky.social
· Nov 11
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HELLO EVERYBODY!
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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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HELLO EVERYBODY!
👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻 👋🏻
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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⭐ The inaugural RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSLATION from the Society for Classical Studies has just been announced ⭐
C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).
C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).
2025 Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Translation | Society for Classical Studies
The Committee on Translation of Classical Authors is delighted to announce the inaugural recipient of the Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The Cribiore Award honors outst...
www.classicalstudies.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
⭐ The inaugural RAFFAELLA CRIBIORE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING TRANSLATION from the Society for Classical Studies has just been announced ⭐
C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).
C. Luke Soucy, *Ovid's Metamorphoses* (University of California Press, 2023).
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Out now. Obstruent singletons are usually associated w/function words and geminates w/content words, but this is less true for sonorants. So, the contrast in the former class becomes weaker. It's here where the length contrast has been lost in other varieties.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Just How Contrastive Is Word-Initial Consonant Length? Exploring the Itunyoso Triqui Spontaneous Speech Corpus - Christian DiCanio, Jared Sharp, 2025
Itunyoso Triqui (Otomanguean: Mexico) has a typologically uncommon contrast between singleton and geminate consonants which occurs only in word-initial position...
journals.sagepub.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Out now. Obstruent singletons are usually associated w/function words and geminates w/content words, but this is less true for sonorants. So, the contrast in the former class becomes weaker. It's here where the length contrast has been lost in other varieties.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Are human-like dialogue agents actually new idols?
A smart religion-informed cautionary analysis about many aspects of their nature.
bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/suprahuman-b...
A smart religion-informed cautionary analysis about many aspects of their nature.
bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/suprahuman-b...
Suprahuman but Inhuman Gods?
It is vitally important that religious studies scholars and theologians critically assess what it means to sustain conversation with AI. By Daniel H. Weiss And Darren Frey
bulletin.hds.harvard.edu
December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Are human-like dialogue agents actually new idols?
A smart religion-informed cautionary analysis about many aspects of their nature.
bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/suprahuman-b...
A smart religion-informed cautionary analysis about many aspects of their nature.
bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/suprahuman-b...
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Big and very exciting news! We will soon have a long-term project in Munich @badw.de on the Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament #ArabicBible. Not only a wonderful topic, but the funding will enable otherwise impossible in-depth exploration.
Drei neue Projekte der BAdW im Akademienprogramm
eyyar.r.sp1-brevo.net
December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Big and very exciting news! We will soon have a long-term project in Munich @badw.de on the Jewish and Christian Arabic translations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament #ArabicBible. Not only a wonderful topic, but the funding will enable otherwise impossible in-depth exploration.
Great article on finding female literacy in Ancient Egypt. ♀️📚
#Egyptology
#AncientBlueSky
arce.org/resource/loo...
#Egyptology
#AncientBlueSky
arce.org/resource/loo...
arce.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Great article on finding female literacy in Ancient Egypt. ♀️📚
#Egyptology
#AncientBlueSky
arce.org/resource/loo...
#Egyptology
#AncientBlueSky
arce.org/resource/loo...
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Newly published @bbaw.bsky.social in our series “Texte und Untersuchungen”: Harold A. Drake, The Speeches of Constantine and Eusebius. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Newly published @bbaw.bsky.social in our series “Texte und Untersuchungen”: Harold A. Drake, The Speeches of Constantine and Eusebius. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Reposted by David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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This annotated bibliography makes accessible a body of material that can seem forbidding to non-specialists and reveals how valuable it can be for our understanding of the Roman empire -- well beyond histories of the Jews, rabbinics, or ancient Judaism more generally.
Super valuable contribution.
Super valuable contribution.
Out now in Oxford Bibliographies in Classics: My biblio on "Jews in the Roman empire." My goal was to invite classicists/ancient historians into the rich world of rabbinic literature, which can transform (if we let it) how we talk about the Roman empire
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
www.oxfordbibliographies.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This annotated bibliography makes accessible a body of material that can seem forbidding to non-specialists and reveals how valuable it can be for our understanding of the Roman empire -- well beyond histories of the Jews, rabbinics, or ancient Judaism more generally.
Super valuable contribution.
Super valuable contribution.
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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‘Black’ isn’t the original main English word for this colour.
In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’.
‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages.
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In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’.
‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages.
Zoom in for more:
1/
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
‘Black’ isn’t the original main English word for this colour.
In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’.
‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages.
Zoom in for more:
1/
In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’.
‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages.
Zoom in for more:
1/
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As a spin-off of the Göttingen project, a first, concise typological grammar of Old Irish by Aaron and me will appear in print soon, as will a revised, 3ʳᵈ edition of the book on “Celtic Languages”.
In the long-term, a modern, up-to-date grammar of Old Irish is high up on my priority list.
🕯️
In the long-term, a modern, up-to-date grammar of Old Irish is high up on my priority list.
🕯️
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
As a spin-off of the Göttingen project, a first, concise typological grammar of Old Irish by Aaron and me will appear in print soon, as will a revised, 3ʳᵈ edition of the book on “Celtic Languages”.
In the long-term, a modern, up-to-date grammar of Old Irish is high up on my priority list.
🕯️
In the long-term, a modern, up-to-date grammar of Old Irish is high up on my priority list.
🕯️
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'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
The 2018 edited volume "Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping" is #OpenAccess. 🎉💪
One chapter on archives in Ancient Egypt, another on archives in Greco-Roman Egypt.
#Egyptology
#AncientBkueSky
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
One chapter on archives in Ancient Egypt, another on archives in Greco-Roman Egypt.
#Egyptology
#AncientBkueSky
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Manuscripts and Archives
Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerge...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The 2018 edited volume "Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping" is #OpenAccess. 🎉💪
One chapter on archives in Ancient Egypt, another on archives in Greco-Roman Egypt.
#Egyptology
#AncientBkueSky
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
One chapter on archives in Ancient Egypt, another on archives in Greco-Roman Egypt.
#Egyptology
#AncientBkueSky
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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the toddler tried her (as far as i am aware) first relative clause today
"das ist das haus haben wir gebaut" (the context is minecraft)
it's not exactly what the grammar pedants would consider ✌️correct✌️ but i was so happy to hear the attempt 🥹
"das ist das haus haben wir gebaut" (the context is minecraft)
it's not exactly what the grammar pedants would consider ✌️correct✌️ but i was so happy to hear the attempt 🥹
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
the toddler tried her (as far as i am aware) first relative clause today
"das ist das haus haben wir gebaut" (the context is minecraft)
it's not exactly what the grammar pedants would consider ✌️correct✌️ but i was so happy to hear the attempt 🥹
"das ist das haus haben wir gebaut" (the context is minecraft)
it's not exactly what the grammar pedants would consider ✌️correct✌️ but i was so happy to hear the attempt 🥹
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Here are King Tut's trumpet's being played after 3300 years (recording from 100 years ago). Spine chilling.
youtu.be/HO3P5jkQmgU?...
youtu.be/HO3P5jkQmgU?...
Tutankhamun's Trumpets played after 3000+ Years
YouTube video by zvrk2010
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here are King Tut's trumpet's being played after 3300 years (recording from 100 years ago). Spine chilling.
youtu.be/HO3P5jkQmgU?...
youtu.be/HO3P5jkQmgU?...
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Dutch "aarzelen" 'to hesitste, waver' is derived from "aars" 'arse', German "Arsch". It was formed based on French "reculer" 'move backwards' from "cul" 'arse'. English "arsle" is cognate.
Sadly, the German cognate *arschelen (or *ärschelen?) is not used.
#LessObviousDutchGermanCognates
Sadly, the German cognate *arschelen (or *ärschelen?) is not used.
#LessObviousDutchGermanCognates
November 25, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Dutch "aarzelen" 'to hesitste, waver' is derived from "aars" 'arse', German "Arsch". It was formed based on French "reculer" 'move backwards' from "cul" 'arse'. English "arsle" is cognate.
Sadly, the German cognate *arschelen (or *ärschelen?) is not used.
#LessObviousDutchGermanCognates
Sadly, the German cognate *arschelen (or *ärschelen?) is not used.
#LessObviousDutchGermanCognates
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Confs: Bilingualism in Autism: Language Acquisition in Interactive and Non-interactive Contexts
Confs: Bilingualism in Autism: Language Acquisition in Interactive and Non-interactive Contexts
There is a growing body of research on the effects of bilingualism in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Across studies, there is now broad consensus that exposure to two (or more) languages does not have detrimental effects on either language development or core autistic traits. Instead, bilingualism can even prove helpful in some domains. At the same time, research in this area faces important challenges, including how to capture the considerable heterogeneity within ASD, the wide r
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Confs: Bilingualism in Autism: Language Acquisition in Interactive and Non-interactive Contexts
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I find it very pleasing that sometime around 1040, an Icelandic skald addressed the king of the Norwegians as "sinjórr", showing that already at this early stage the French vocabulary for lordship had entered the Nordic world.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I find it very pleasing that sometime around 1040, an Icelandic skald addressed the king of the Norwegians as "sinjórr", showing that already at this early stage the French vocabulary for lordship had entered the Nordic world.
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In the mid-2nd millennium BCE, Egyptian scribes began writing a foot🦶 at the start of "not."
The result?
A super-weird thing transliterated as BN, that corresponds to #Coptic Ⲛ︦.
My new blogpost explains why.
#Egyptology
#LangSky
egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/11/expl...
The result?
A super-weird thing transliterated as BN, that corresponds to #Coptic Ⲛ︦.
My new blogpost explains why.
#Egyptology
#LangSky
egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/11/expl...
Explaining the Strange b in the Egyptian Negative Transliterated bn: An Innovative Orthographic Norm Derived from bw- (> -ⲞⲨ-) and bw nb (> ⲞⲨⲞⲚ ⲚⲒⲘ)
The following has been written to gather feedback, in preparation for an article to be written and submitted to peer review. . . . T...
egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
In the mid-2nd millennium BCE, Egyptian scribes began writing a foot🦶 at the start of "not."
The result?
A super-weird thing transliterated as BN, that corresponds to #Coptic Ⲛ︦.
My new blogpost explains why.
#Egyptology
#LangSky
egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/11/expl...
The result?
A super-weird thing transliterated as BN, that corresponds to #Coptic Ⲛ︦.
My new blogpost explains why.
#Egyptology
#LangSky
egyptianhistoricallinguistics.blogspot.com/2025/11/expl...
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If you think what we do is worthwhile and want to help us do it better, consider joining our board! *very low time commitment*
If you’d like to join our board, drop us a line!
Contingent Board Nominations
Contingent is looking for some new board members! We’re looking for folks who are committed to the magazine’s mission and want to help us shape how we carry it out in a changing media and academic lan...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If you think what we do is worthwhile and want to help us do it better, consider joining our board! *very low time commitment*
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Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for the idea as a public scholarly companion to Contingent's end of year list of publications from non-tenure track historians.
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
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Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.