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I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that Elsevier is a Dutch company had something to do with it.

Illa means "she". (Thesaurus linguae Latinae 7,1:349)

When I was the president of the society of Latin students, I got several emails asking for tattoo translations. I hope I got them right.

Finally. I migrated from the snap-cursed Ubuntu to Debian. I have been running Bookworm since last summer, and now I can stay in the stable distribution until I really need a new v…

Physical media second-hand market is surprisingly good nowadays. Use reputable sellers and buy discs rated "good" or below with caution.

I thought about buying Hoefler fonts because they have some extra features and e.g. engraved style but the licensing is just too much work for me. How do I know how many computer's…

BBC Radio 4 had a wonderful episode about Emilie du Châtelet just recently. [0] [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rvnj

Interesting that there is a Createspace package! They seem to have taken the "inject weird PDF objects straight from LaTeX" route. The other route is the pdfx package, which I ende…

A good paper dictionary usually has better usability than most Internet dictionaries. That being said, I tend to use Wiktionary quite a lot, but then usually use the sources it poi…

Yes. Egyptian hieroglyphs have a full set of consonants, so you could write it that way. They just didn't because of historical spelling. As you said Sumerian could be an example o…

Same here. This whole discussion is funny and absurd. Finnish is really phonetic in its spelling (there are about three exceptions that come to my mind right now). There's also not…

I tried using Anki for learning Ancient Greek words. Didn't work for me. I need the context and then deciphering the meaning becomes a challenge, which will be rewarding. Going thr…

These multiformat outputs have come a long way in the last five years, and it's good to see them working. Thanks for the link! The automated approach works best for technical books…

Self-published books often have horrible layouts and graphical design, all-around. Thankfully basic LaTeX styles are quite decent and do their job. Casas's Data Science Live Book l…

There were these two British gentlemen coaching our doctoral programme summer meetup. I think their task was to make us better communicate our research. Probably quite hard because…

My ISP broke their IPv4 gateway one weekend. Fortunately they have their IPv6 stuff working in parallel. I was surprised that only maybe half of the Internet is reachable via IPv6,…

I recommend the Designer Notes podcast episode [1] where Sid Meier (yes, that Sid Meier) explains how this game was designed. And if you are interested, listen all of the four epis…

I have studied Latin at the university level and also some Greek, especially from the historical linguistic point of view. I truly understand that the ancient pronunciation sounds …

I think the pronunciation is quite good. Not your classical Attic Greek pronunciation but it shouldn't be since the stele is from a later time and from Anatolia where people would …

One of those unexpected things that has been preserved from the ancient times. I actually learned to sing this, I think it's quite sad. The 1951 film Quo Vadis features Peter Ustin…

Weiss's book is full of this kind of stuff. Actually, the whole point of the book is to list. Apparently there will be a new edition this year. Michael Weiss, Outline of the Histor…

Classical antiquity, along with Judaeo-Christian tradition and the Enlightenment, form the foundation for the Western civilization. You could throw in others but those three are th…

For those interested I would recommend J. N. Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin Language. Cambridge University Press, 2003. It is more on the linguistic side with many examples in t…

It seems strange that Gnome is heading to an non-intuitive direction. You could have all the cool stuff but I think you also should provide the familiar Desktop metaphor elements. …

No type-ahead search in Nautilus. Ubuntu actually dropped their unofficial patches one version ago, Gnome developers years ago. I cannot fathom how Gnome 3 developers think this is…