Adam Bremer-McCollum
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🎸🌱🍄☕️ I co-edit & typeset Texts & Translations of Transcendence & Transformation (4T) at HDS/CSWR tinyurl.com/494v9n59 The Pearlsong tinyurl.com/msajp4ut ✍️ a 📙 on weed in 13th-15th cent. Arabic texts 🏡 Georgia (US; but also Old Georgian) PLUR IDIC
Someone game me this cool patch at the Dylan show last night outside Minneapolis
Arnoud Vrolijk's ed. of Ibn Sūdūn's (1407-1464) /nuzhat al-nufūs wa-muḍḥik al-ʕabūs/ (Leiden , 1998) 😒→😆
Then it's worth mentioning the Middle Persian word for "giraffe": /uštargāwpalang/ (NP شترگاوپلنگ /šotorgāvpalang/) (camel+cow+leopard)
The درخت انجير in my backyard this morning; this one is very much not خشك!
These all are from this morning, within several meters of each other
It's fortunate that many dictionaries are avail. as PDFs or otherwise digitally, but it's even more fortunate when you can flip through a physical copy. Here's a reprint (1967) of Leiden arabist Reinhart Dozy's /Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes/ (1877–1881).
For some Friday fun, a verse from "Sugar Magnolia" in Syriac (7-syll. meter) *ܒܙܒܢ ܟܕ ܩ̇ܪܐ ܟ݁ܘܟ݁ܘ ܘܣܗܪܐ ܒܦܠܓ ܡܚܬܗ ܒܙܒܢ ܟܕ ܠܠܝܐ ܡ̇ܐܬ ܐܢܐ ܡ̇ܦܩ ܠܝ ܕܐܛܥܐ ܛ̇ܥܐ ܐ̄ܢܐ ܟܕ ܚ̇ܕܪ ܐ̄ܢܐ (transcription ⬇️) *thanks to ميخایيل نعيمة for the كوكو-inspiration
The ruins of a textile mill (1849-1864) on Sweetwater Creek, west of Atlanta