Matthew Scarborough 𐃌
@mattitiahu
Philologist and historical linguist. Formerly UCPH, MPI-SHH, and Cambridge. Mostly Ancient Greek, comparative Indo-European, and nonsense. (ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ/ⲛ̄ⲧⲟⲟⲩ)
Me: I wonder what Holger Pedersen was up to just before he went to Korfu to do fieldwork on Albanian... Ah yes, he's casually writing to Karl Verner about how he's just formulated what's nowadays called the RUKI rule in Slavic.
oh shit the pro gamers are gonna go accuse me of having an autoaim bot installed
I made this as a potential T-Shirt design for the University of Alberta History and Classics Graduate Student Association a decade and a half ago and I am still disappointed they never adopted it.
Ok ITU Copenhagen, I can see you're having fun (and I respect it).
*randomly logs into Facebook* Wow, the algorithm over there is just pushing AI slop generated by Canadian Nazis now. What an incredible website.
I don’t really need another mug to clutter up the cupboard, but I stopped by Indigo this afternoon and they managed to successfully separate me from my money.
I append this diagram in no means to help this conversation come to a satisfying resolution: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...
I think it's time to update the profile banner since the last one was a bookshelf shot from the old office in Denmark (that we got kicked out of in March 2025 because it was discovered the entire building had a mold infestation).
The Waterstones Oxford Street twitter account used to go so hard back in the day. I feel like we'll never have that era of corporate public-facing social media ever again.
Sometimes I wish these also gave the original date of publication.
Sorry, I forgot the most important of all identitarian takes from the region.
I went there once. There are many options available to pretend to identify one's eponymous ancestors with.
Searching for something in my Gallo-Romance folder and re-discovering this etymological dictionary of Walloon from 1845 that I found on BnF Gallica, which at some point some linguistic chauvinist angrily objected to the notion of la 'langue' wallonne.
fwiw here's the original for comparison (İmriz 1, citation in alt text).
I feel like there was some famous philosophy paper written about this...
Laryngeal Theory 2 looks like it's going to be a lot of fun to learn about.
Pulled my copy of Kristian Sandfeld’s Balkanfilologien off the shelf and only just now noticed after owning this for two and a half years it was originally owned by Ada Adler, the editor of the Suda.
watching a random youtube video about las vegas and the weirdest little detail just made me have a stroke. rip me.