Adam Bremer-McCollum

البهنساويّ 😉

.. and if you really need eyeglasses of the past, you can order replicas of them here:
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Itself an Iranian loanword (cf. MP /čakuč/, NP چكش) 😉

This one escalated quickly.

On جند /ǧund/ "troop, soldiers" and related words in Semitic and Iranian langs (and > գունդ, გუნდი), see Ciancaglini, 135.

Arabic word of the day
مطرق، مطرقة ج مطارق
/miṭraq(ah)/, pl /maṭāriq/
"hammer" 🔨

as in PO 16 228.6

فامر ان يبسط علی الارض ويضرب بالمطارق التي بيد الجند

"he commanded that he be stretched out on the ground and beaten with the hammers the soldiers had"

"ai;dr"

From season one of /The Night Manager/: disconnected Arabic letters, and words in the wrong order 🙄

(it should be ميناء الإسكندرية /mīnāʔ al-iskandarīya/)

Many thanks, Ian! Maybe we'll have a chance to discuss it somewhere 🤞

Thanks, Jeremiah! Hopefully it'll show up somewhere before long 😉

I submitted a proposal for AAR. ✅

I'd written an unrelated proposal for SBL, but unlike AAR, you have to be an active member of SBL, i.e. you have to pay simply for the privilege of /proposing/ a paper. I'll just find somewhere else to discuss the Persian Gospel Harmony/"Diatessaron"!

Syriac word of the day
ܬܓܪܘܡܬܐ
"skeleton"

as in Bar Bahlul, ed. Duval, col. 2033

[Syr] "A cadaver with the meat decayed, only the bones remaining; in Greek, σκελετός."

[Arb] "A cadaver with the meat decayed, only the bones remaining. Otherwise: a flayed cadaver. The vertebrae."

(translated into Syriac)

ܐܝܬ ܥܠܝ ܕܐ̇ܬܪܥܐ ܒܪܡܙܐ

/ʔiṯ ʕlay d-ʔeṯraʕʕē ḇ-remzå/

Syriac word of the day
ܬܓܪܘܡܬܐ
"skeleton"

as in Bar Bahlul, ed. Duval, col. 2033

[Syr] "A cadaver with the meat decayed, only the bones remaining; in Greek, σκελετός."

[Arb] "A cadaver with the meat decayed, only the bones remaining. Otherwise: a flayed cadaver. The vertebrae."

R.I.P. Country Joe McDonald

Country Joe Mcdonald - Feel Like i'm Fixing to Die Rag - Woodstock '69 YouTube video by Lidia

"C'mon all you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again. Got himself in a bit of a jam - way over yonder in far Iran."

RIP, Joe.
#CountryJoe #FishCheer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6...

GIMME AN F!!!

NB فراش /firāš/ 🛏️ ≠ فراش /farāš/ 🦋

(Lisān al-ʕarab, s.v. /farāš/)

"like a moth to the flame"

You Made Me A Pallet On The Floor YouTube video by The Weavers - Topic

Arabic word of the day
فراش
/firāš/
"mattress, cushion, blanket, pallet"

as in PO 16 219.4

وهم يناموا علی فراش واحد وتحت ازار واحد

"and they would sleep on one mattress, under one cover"

First entry of ghosts, four figures Daniel Rabel, 1632 For the "Ballet du chateau de Bicêtre" danced #otd 8 Mar 1632 at the Louvre, the Arsenal and the Hôtel de Ville. (Musée du Louvre)

March 8, 1971: FBI's COINTELPRO Exposed A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.

#tdih 1971

A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.

They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.

Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...

Iliad 10.437 Spoken by Dolon Greek: λευκότεροι χιόνος, θείειν δ᾽ ἀνέμοισιν ὁμοῖοι: English (Lattimore): they are whiter than snow, and their speed of foot is the winds' speed;

Iliad 10.437

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

"Well, I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet
Had my head stoved in, but I'm still on my feet"
(Lowell George)

Sliver-cased verge watch in the form of a human skull. German, c. 1655 - 1665
For that portable memento mori everyone needs. (British Museum)

Arabic word of the day
تلألأ
/talaʔlaʔa/
"shimmer, glimmer, sparkle, glisten" (cf. لؤلؤ /luʔluʔ/ "pearls")

as in PO 16 214.8

فابصر فيه ضِيا يتلالا قدّام القطعة المنقطعة منه

"then he noticed a brightness there shimmering in front of the piece that had been cut off the cross"

Inaugurating an inventory of outstanding alliterative adjective ensembles with "stoven and sunk"

Boogaloo Joe Jones - Brown Bag [US, Acid Jazz] (1970)

Boogaloo Joe Jones - Brown Bag [US, Acid Jazz] (1970)
https://redd.it/mbpnv5
https://youtu.be/io7Pkfy1tOU