Robin Leroy
@eggrobin.bsky.social
𒉭𒄿𒈾𒀀𒀊𒁀𒊭𒁾𒎌𒉈𒁍𒌑𒌝
An egg drowning in a sea of papers
𒉭𒀀𒀊𒁀𒁾𒁀𒅗𒁀𒀭𒋢𒋢
一颗在论文海中的蛋
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An egg drowning in a sea of papers
𒉭𒀀𒀊𒁀𒁾𒁀𒅗𒁀𒀭𒋢𒋢
一颗在论文海中的蛋
𒄠𒋛𒆠 https://mastodon.social/@eggrobin
The draft minutes of Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #185 (recorded by yours truly) have been posted: www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/252...
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The draft minutes of Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #185 (recorded by yours truly) have been posted: www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/252...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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forgot to put this up somewhere so here you go. visualize your favorite zlib stream! lynn.github.io/flateview/
September 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
forgot to put this up somewhere so here you go. visualize your favorite zlib stream! lynn.github.io/flateview/
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Even Neo-Babylonian Uruk had that one person feeding stray cats.
September 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Even Neo-Babylonian Uruk had that one person feeding stray cats.
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did you know? teleost fish maintain neutral buoyancy with their swim bladder, which they pump with gas as they descend into depths. specifically, they can pump it with hyperbaric oxygen at partial pressures of *several hundred atmospheres*
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
did you know? teleost fish maintain neutral buoyancy with their swim bladder, which they pump with gas as they descend into depths. specifically, they can pump it with hyperbaric oxygen at partial pressures of *several hundred atmospheres*
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The catt was lockt in the chamber, and kept a great mewing, and leapt upon the bed, which made me I could not sleep a great while.
August 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The catt was lockt in the chamber, and kept a great mewing, and leapt upon the bed, which made me I could not sleep a great while.
The draft minutes of Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #184 (recorded by yours truly) have been posted: www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/251...
UTC 184 Minutes
www.unicode.org
July 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The draft minutes of Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #184 (recorded by yours truly) have been posted: www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/251...
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SAUVONS LE PALAIS DE LA DÉCOUVERTE
www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...
(Avis personnel : des musées comme le Grand Palais, il y en a plein à Paris. Il n'y a qu'un Palais de la Découverte.)
www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...
(Avis personnel : des musées comme le Grand Palais, il y en a plein à Paris. Il n'y a qu'un Palais de la Découverte.)
Signez la pétition
Sauvons le Palais de la découverte
www.change.org
June 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
SAUVONS LE PALAIS DE LA DÉCOUVERTE
www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...
(Avis personnel : des musées comme le Grand Palais, il y en a plein à Paris. Il n'y a qu'un Palais de la Découverte.)
www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...
(Avis personnel : des musées comme le Grand Palais, il y en a plein à Paris. Il n'y a qu'un Palais de la Découverte.)
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My reconstruction and identification of a partially-preserved Tangut character in a unique fragment of the Homophones text held at the British Library www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n53...
May 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My reconstruction and identification of a partially-preserved Tangut character in a unique fragment of the Homophones text held at the British Library www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n53...
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In addition to the excellent subject matter 😸 I can so relate to this feeling of there being so many different scripts and delightful sets of type and wanting to make it work to just pack them all in there. #DHmakes
I've been in the weeds the past few weeks but typography tuesday is BACK (at least today lol)
today's feature is Kattologia, a short "history of cats [& description of] an unusual cat birth that happened in Leipzig" Despite being 96 pages, we've got blackletter, Roman, Italic, Greek, & Hebrew type!
today's feature is Kattologia, a short "history of cats [& description of] an unusual cat birth that happened in Leipzig" Despite being 96 pages, we've got blackletter, Roman, Italic, Greek, & Hebrew type!
April 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In addition to the excellent subject matter 😸 I can so relate to this feeling of there being so many different scripts and delightful sets of type and wanting to make it work to just pack them all in there. #DHmakes
The draft minutes of Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #183 (recorded by yours truly) have just been posted: www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/250...
www.unicode.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The draft minutes of Unicode Technical Committee Meeting #183 (recorded by yours truly) have just been posted: www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/250...
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Dear friends and colleagues, the academic program of the 70th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Prague, July 7-11) is now available online at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/program.php Registration to attend is still open! #70RAIPrague #Assyriology @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav @iaassyriology.bsky.social
RAI 70 - 2025 - Prague
rai70.ff.cuni.cz
April 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Dear friends and colleagues, the academic program of the 70th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Prague, July 7-11) is now available online at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/program.php Registration to attend is still open! #70RAIPrague #Assyriology @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav @iaassyriology.bsky.social
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Monumental three-volume Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures to be published by De Gruyter, early next year hopefully. Open Access eBook! Includes chapters on Khitan and Tangut epigraphy.
![Flyer publicizing two forthcoming Handbooks on Material Text Culture from De Gruyter: Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament [ISBN 978-3-11-141107-1] and Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures (3 volumes) [ISBN 978-3-11-124094-7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7v2mqh7dhocngomglc7mhl6g/bafkreieitzyb7auatvu2bfnkhs4cku2qwjdimhiu37ypjaixtoc44wvpty@jpeg)
March 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Monumental three-volume Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures to be published by De Gruyter, early next year hopefully. Open Access eBook! Includes chapters on Khitan and Tangut epigraphy.
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OUUUUAAAAAIS
🚄 TGV : dix-neuf mois après l’éboulement, la ligne Paris-Milan a rouvert ce lundi et Modane n’est plus coupé du monde ferré
TGV : dix-neuf mois après l’éboulement, la ligne Paris-Milan a rouvert ce lundi et Modane n’est plus coupé du monde ferré
Avant les deux allers-retours de Trenitalia mardi, la SNCF a lancé ce lundi 31 mars la première de ses trois liaisons quotidiennes entre les villes européennes. Pour Modane, c’est aussi le retour du TER.
www.liberation.fr
March 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
OUUUUAAAAAIS
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...and clouds in the sky
#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity
Sol 4480: Right Navigation Camera
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA / JPL-Caltech /j. Roger
#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity
Sol 4480: Right Navigation Camera
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA / JPL-Caltech /j. Roger
March 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
...and clouds in the sky
#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity
Sol 4480: Right Navigation Camera
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA / JPL-Caltech /j. Roger
#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity
Sol 4480: Right Navigation Camera
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA / JPL-Caltech /j. Roger
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Spanish mesquin > Arabic miskīn > Akkadian muškēnu (𒈦𒂗𒆕). An impoverished person, destitute, or state dependent.
From the Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BCE):
"If he has blinded the eye or broken the bone of a muškēnu, he shall pay 1 mina of silver."
From the Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BCE):
"If he has blinded the eye or broken the bone of a muškēnu, he shall pay 1 mina of silver."
March 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Spanish mesquin > Arabic miskīn > Akkadian muškēnu (𒈦𒂗𒆕). An impoverished person, destitute, or state dependent.
From the Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BCE):
"If he has blinded the eye or broken the bone of a muškēnu, he shall pay 1 mina of silver."
From the Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BCE):
"If he has blinded the eye or broken the bone of a muškēnu, he shall pay 1 mina of silver."
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while “cider” comes (via Greek, via Latin, via French) from Hebrew שֵׁכָר, the Hebrew word has a cognate in Akkadian šikarum
March 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
while “cider” comes (via Greek, via Latin, via French) from Hebrew שֵׁכָר, the Hebrew word has a cognate in Akkadian šikarum
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Another fun Akkadian word that lives on: sofa
Akkadian ṣuppu, "thick, compacted (of textiles)" > Aramaic ṣippā/ṣuppā, "carded wool" > Arabic, Turkish "ṣuffa" > sofa
Akkadian ṣuppu, "thick, compacted (of textiles)" > Aramaic ṣippā/ṣuppā, "carded wool" > Arabic, Turkish "ṣuffa" > sofa
March 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Another fun Akkadian word that lives on: sofa
Akkadian ṣuppu, "thick, compacted (of textiles)" > Aramaic ṣippā/ṣuppā, "carded wool" > Arabic, Turkish "ṣuffa" > sofa
Akkadian ṣuppu, "thick, compacted (of textiles)" > Aramaic ṣippā/ṣuppā, "carded wool" > Arabic, Turkish "ṣuffa" > sofa
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Shocked to learn that French niquer 'to fuck' was borrowed from (Algerian) #Arabic. The root n-y-k is of a venerable, #Proto-Semitic age, with cognates including #Akkadian niākum.
Huh? Is het oer-Hollandse 'neuken' een Frans leenwoord?! Toch niet: 'neuken' is een erfwoord, dat tot het Protogermaans is te herleiden. 'Niquer' is een Arabisch leenwoord in het Frans. Toevallig is het wel... etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/ne...
www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/n... #langsky #linguistics #🐦🐦
www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/n... #langsky #linguistics #🐦🐦
December 19, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Shocked to learn that French niquer 'to fuck' was borrowed from (Algerian) #Arabic. The root n-y-k is of a venerable, #Proto-Semitic age, with cognates including #Akkadian niākum.
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Omg Egyptian “get some” and Arabic “get some” are the same?!
and check out this Middle Egyptian verb (maybe a loan from Semitic rather than an Afroasiatic cognate, idk)
March 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Omg Egyptian “get some” and Arabic “get some” are the same?!
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Ok, since several people have expressed surprise that I used the Attic dialect form of the word, “θάλαττα” and not “θάλασσα”, serious question:
‣ How come is it that this word, one of the most widely recognized words in the Greek language, is so in its non-Attic form “θάλασσα”?
‣ How come is it that this word, one of the most widely recognized words in the Greek language, is so in its non-Attic form “θάλασσα”?
March 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Ok, since several people have expressed surprise that I used the Attic dialect form of the word, “θάλαττα” and not “θάλασσα”, serious question:
‣ How come is it that this word, one of the most widely recognized words in the Greek language, is so in its non-Attic form “θάλασσα”?
‣ How come is it that this word, one of the most widely recognized words in the Greek language, is so in its non-Attic form “θάλασσα”?
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If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are.
In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.
In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.
February 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are.
In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.
In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.
𒆠𒄿 𒇽𒈬𒊻𒊏𒀀𒀀 𒀠𒆠
From long ago in my non-Assyriological past: this photo showed up in the NY Times today, in an article about the excellent new Bangles biography, 'Eternal Flame'! (We were Those Girls then, playing at the Troubadour. I'm in the pink shirt.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/a...
Now, back to cuneiform!
Now, back to cuneiform!
February 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
𒆠𒄿 𒇽𒈬𒊻𒊏𒀀𒀀 𒀠𒆠