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Robin Leroy
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𒉭​𒄿𒈾​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒊭​𒁾𒎌​𒉈𒁍𒌑𒌝
An egg drowning in a sea of papers
𒉭​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒁾𒁀𒅗​𒁀𒀭𒋢𒋢
一颗在论文海中的蛋
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That reminds me, it’s been a while since I’ve sent you pictures of brioches…
A brioche on a small wooden cutting board on a stone table, with A Grammar of Akkadian in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
eggrobin.bsky.social
20th century german sumerologists are pretty good at this too
From Anton Deimel’s Liste der archaischen Keilschriftzeichen von Fara: Gud. B 2, 18; 𒅅, 𒅅, 𒅅, pass. z. Zt. d. Dyn. Ur
September 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
eggrobin.bsky.social
See Kouwenberg, The Akkadian verb and its Semitic background, 2010, p. 558 n. 160, for a discussion of that (though hardly a clear answer).
In sum, there is plenty of evidence for the strong paradigm in (Pre‑)Sargonic Akkadian. There is, however, also some counter-evidence consisting of weak or at least weakened perfectives. To start with the latter, there are a few perfectives in proper names with assimilation of ʾ to a preceding r. Instead of yirʾam and yirʾib, we also find yirram and yirrib: Ìr-rí-bum HSS 10, 187: I 7 (Gasur), and Ìr-ra-am-DN MAD 3, 230. This shows weakening of ʾ but not (yet) adaptation to the weak paradigm (which would give (y)irām and (y)irīb). This may be a specific development of the cluster r  ʾ and/or restricted to proper names. Yirrib also occurs in Ur III Babylonian names; Hilgert (2002: 362–68) lists Ìr-rí-ib and Ìr-rí-bum alongside (DN-)ìr(-e)-eb and I-ri-ib/íb, etc.), perhaps as a survival from Sargonic Akkadian, since Babylonian shows no other traces of this change. However, the assimilation of ʾ to a preceding consonant may also occur in some Old Assyrian nouns (see Kouwenberg 2006: 164–65) and it is definitely found in original III/  ʾ and III/  ʿ verbs in Middle and Neo-Assyrian (see 2006: 172–73 and §17.8.3 below, p. 578). 160. A baffling problem in this context is posed by the name Narām-Sin, which contains the deverbal instrument noun that the dictionaries list as narāmu ‘love’. In the dialects that preserve post-consonantal ʾ, the regular mapras form would be narʾamum, and this form is indeed attested in the Old Assyrian feminine proper name Narʾamtum (Na-ar-am-tum Prag I 467:3, alongside Naramtum [Na-ra-am-tum ICK 1, 17b:3]). The fact that Sargonic Akkadian consistently shows a form without ʾ, both as a noun in (PNF) [na]-ra-ma-at lugal AKI p. 44 S‑24:4 ‘PNF, favourite of the king’ and as a part of proper names (passim, e.g., NarāmSin) is hard to explain, apart from the circular statement that in proper names ʾ is more prone to being dropped than elsewhere. Or are these forms perhaps borrowed from a specifically Babylonian environment? In Babylonian, post-consonantal ʾ has already been dropped in the earliest texts we have, but obviously we do not know how early this change has started. If these names have indeed been borrowed from Babylonian and narʾam(t)um has undergone the Babylonian development of post-consonantal ʾ, the correct form of the noun is nāramum rather than narāmum.
March 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
eggrobin.bsky.social
I might have an answer.
In Notepad on my desktop (left) I have the same issue as you do. On my laptop (right) all is well.
My desktop is running Windows 11 23H2 (10.0.22631).
My laptop is running Windows 11 24H2 (10.0.26100).

Time for some Windows Update…
List of dual-joining Arabic letters by Unicode Version from above. Those from Unicode 8.0 and later are not joining. List of dual-joining Arabic letters by Unicode Version from above. Those from Unicode 8.0 and 9.0 are joining.
February 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
eggrobin.bsky.social
Ah, so this isn't how you use it?
A stick of green sealing wax being held up to a ceiling.
December 3, 2024 at 8:46 PM
eggrobin.bsky.social
Sadly shipping slices of brioche from Normandy to Maryland may prove impractical…
A brioche.
October 31, 2024 at 3:12 PM
eggrobin.bsky.social
That black background is unhelpful…
October 16, 2024 at 9:05 PM
eggrobin.bsky.social
So SkySat C-1, this pass (about 55° altitude at azimuth 260° at the given time; the pass culminated at 72° at 15:12:54).
October 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM
eggrobin.bsky.social
Cute Ιξίων graphs:
October 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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Not sure how far off-nadir they go, but it looks like there are two of those passing above 45° in the next three hours (from climserv.ipsl.polytechnique.fr/ixion/).
October 1, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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Screenshot of the Bluesky 🔔 Notifications, 💬 Chat, and #️⃣ Feeds tabs, with the word Chat changed to 𒀭𒅎𒎌 ᵈIM.MEŠ.
August 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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By playing with the URL parameters one can get a higher resolution, and it is clear that it is really 𝄲, with two vertical lines: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5...
July 24, 2024 at 1:01 AM