one of my curiousest acquisitions over the years has been this 1881 ed. of Homer (Il. & Od. & Hymns) with the Greek text side by side with a Latin translation. but it's not, like, *correct* Latin, it's essentially a morpheme by morpheme gloss of the Greek, for (i assume) Latin-knowing Greek students

that's a good example! i think it is rather evocative (cf. English "fear gripped them"). more often i think the experiencer is the subject of ἔχω rather than the object, but still across the broad ranges of emotion i think the most common/neutral strategy is to use the corresponding verb.

Massachusett phrase of the day: toh kuttinantam /tąᐧ kət-ən-aᐧntam/ how 2-RR:manner-think.TI "what do you (sg.) think?"

most memorable line in Nolan's Odyssey, imho

i'm not quite sure what this means. Wilson's Odyssey is also not Homer's Odyssey. neither are Fagles' or Chapman's or whatever else

this is what i think, fwiw. i kind don't understand the controversy, like at all variety.com/2026/film/ne...

lfg

i just hope it is half as good as Nolan's original Odyssey adaptation

you could almost say ... a timeline of many twists and turns

Massachusett word of the day: kodtantam /kat-aᐧntam(w-)/ "s/he wants (something)", lit. is desire-minded with respect to it. kodtantamwog /kat-aᐧntamwa-k/ "they want (something)" kodtantamwog kukken8nukqunaóut "they wish to speak to you" (Matt. 12:47)

me, a guy who knows Latin, in 1913 walking into the HQ of the company that just named itself and its flagship product "Formica" because it is designed to be a substitute "for mica"

apparently the 3yo has been talking in deutschpañol to my mother in law

so in trying to learn more about my new home state i have discovered that the MA flag features a full line of hexameter: ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem "by the sword, it seeks a repose that is peaceful under liberty."

me, in the audience of Euripides' "The Cyclops" in 408 BC: what the fuck. this is NOT what Homer had in mind. i weep for the memory of Greek culture. (i storm out of the theater of Dionysus, spilling my popcorn everywhere)

ishkont nukkouem nuppooe koueonk "lest I sleep the sleep of death" nəp-əwiᐧ kawiᐧ-ąᐧk "deathly sleep"

Massachusett word of the day: nə-kawiᐧ-m "I sleep" kə-kawiᐧ-m "you (sg) sleep" kawiᐧ-w "s/he sleeps" məhsiᐧ kawiᐧ-ąᐧk "a deep sleep"

Massachusett word of the day: n8wekontam /nə-wiᐧkąᐧtam/ 1-be.glad "I am glad"

we are watching Moana and at the part with Te Kā the toddler asks "why is Spidey doing that to them" 😭😭

Massachusett word of the day: musqui /məskʷa·y(əw-)/ "(it is) red" ut musqui kehtahhannit "in the Red Sea" (Exodus 15:4)

wat bedoel je? wens je ons een goede morgen? of bedoel je dat het een goede morgen is, of wij het willen of niet? of dat je je deze morgen goed voelt? of dat het een morgen is waarop goed te zijn?

things that may be overheard in a Koine Greek classroom

Massachusett word of the day: anum /anəm/ "dog" Roger Williams (1643) cites this as an example of dialectal variation in the Southern New England Algonquian languages (with some light linguistic chauvinism). these all come from Proto-Eastern-Algonquian *arəm (where *r goes back to PA *θ):

wait what are you serious

literally just asking about latin verbs

so glad to finally have a word for this

"post a photo of yourself taking a photo of yourself"

Massachusett word of the day: ussooweesoo /əsəwi·sə-w/ be.called-3 "is called (thus)"

Massachusett word of the day: seep, sepu (pl. sepuash) */si·p(u·)/ "river" cf. W. Abenaki sibo, S. Unami sipu, Mi'kmaq sipu