Mike Aubrey
@mikeaubrey.bsky.social
Linguistics, Ancient Greek, photography, transit, leftist.
Greek linguistics at SIL International
Editor at http://Koine-Greek.com.
Opinions my own. He/him
🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸
Greek linguistics at SIL International
Editor at http://Koine-Greek.com.
Opinions my own. He/him
🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸
This morning a church elder made my wife cry and I just need to say somewhere how wrong that is.
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This morning a church elder made my wife cry and I just need to say somewhere how wrong that is.
LIFE IS A DISCOUNT STORE WITH SALES THAT CAN OCCASIONALLY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF is my favorite conceptual metaphor. (www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...) #linguistics
October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
LIFE IS A DISCOUNT STORE WITH SALES THAT CAN OCCASIONALLY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF is my favorite conceptual metaphor. (www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...) #linguistics
I was finally able to confirm with a friend at Logos that mine and Rachel's manuscript for the 2nd edition of Greek Prepositions in the New Testament was acquired by Baker from Lexham/Logos, but we're still waiting to hear from Baker about what's happening with it. #biblicalgreek
October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I was finally able to confirm with a friend at Logos that mine and Rachel's manuscript for the 2nd edition of Greek Prepositions in the New Testament was acquired by Baker from Lexham/Logos, but we're still waiting to hear from Baker about what's happening with it. #biblicalgreek
I'm genuinely fascinated that nearly every post I've seen about John Searle's passing has reference the Chinese Room experiment as his big thing none of mentioned Speech Act Theory.
#linguistics
#linguistics
October 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm genuinely fascinated that nearly every post I've seen about John Searle's passing has reference the Chinese Room experiment as his big thing none of mentioned Speech Act Theory.
#linguistics
#linguistics
Force is ubiquitous in everyday life. We act and are acted on by causal sequences that require the exertion of force. Typical force interactions shape our inferences about the world and how we communicate in language. 1/#
#biblicalgreek #linguistics (& cc: @koine-greek.com)
#biblicalgreek #linguistics (& cc: @koine-greek.com)
September 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Force is ubiquitous in everyday life. We act and are acted on by causal sequences that require the exertion of force. Typical force interactions shape our inferences about the world and how we communicate in language. 1/#
#biblicalgreek #linguistics (& cc: @koine-greek.com)
#biblicalgreek #linguistics (& cc: @koine-greek.com)
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It should not have to be said, but actually thanks @johnbasil.bsky.social for including signed languages in this article!
Social functions of language may drive faster change and faster diversification in some features.
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks to growing diversity in variationst sociolinguistics, I gathered studies of 63 languages from 28 families. Here I sketch some potential patterns
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies
Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community l....
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It should not have to be said, but actually thanks @johnbasil.bsky.social for including signed languages in this article!
Turns out that consolidating media companies into handful a megacorporation might have been less than ideal.
Seriously, though. Absolute horror show here. And yet another reminder — as if they were still needed — that capitulating gets you nothing beyond letting Trump know you’re willing to capitulate.
September 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Turns out that consolidating media companies into handful a megacorporation might have been less than ideal.
I really love this book.
Edith Claflin's work on voice and aspect in Greek and Latin should have been part of the linguistics foundation we all have been building on, yet you rarely find her cited.
#linguistics #biblicalgreek
#linguistics #biblicalgreek
Edith Claflin, the Greek linguist you’ve never heard of
Over the past year, I’ve been off-and-on reading Julia Falk’s Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. It’s a superb b…
koine-greek.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I really love this book.
Reposted by Mike Aubrey
Edith Claflin's work on voice and aspect in Greek and Latin should have been part of the linguistics foundation we all have been building on, yet you rarely find her cited.
#linguistics #biblicalgreek
#linguistics #biblicalgreek
Edith Claflin, the Greek linguist you’ve never heard of
Over the past year, I’ve been off-and-on reading Julia Falk’s Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. It’s a superb b…
koine-greek.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Edith Claflin's work on voice and aspect in Greek and Latin should have been part of the linguistics foundation we all have been building on, yet you rarely find her cited.
#linguistics #biblicalgreek
#linguistics #biblicalgreek
Just for the record: Allen Dershowitz is almost certainly a pedophile.
Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3
www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...
August 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Just for the record: Allen Dershowitz is almost certainly a pedophile.
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I just want to highlight the juxtaposition here between a certain NT scholar's work and this article about Jordan Peterson.
June 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I just want to highlight the juxtaposition here between a certain NT scholar's work and this article about Jordan Peterson.
A quick comparison between Bing & Google reveals Bing is down ranking Wikipedia as a source past the first page in its search results in order to drive people to stick to their CoPilot summaries. Even if you use "wikipedia" as a term you it doesn't show up until at least the bottom of the page.
July 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
A quick comparison between Bing & Google reveals Bing is down ranking Wikipedia as a source past the first page in its search results in order to drive people to stick to their CoPilot summaries. Even if you use "wikipedia" as a term you it doesn't show up until at least the bottom of the page.
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If you're a caregiver who may have other, less techno-optimistic views of AI/GenAI, then you may be interested in the panel "Theorizing Caregiver Resistance to EdTech" that I'm convening with @alliethrall.bsky.social at next week's Civics of Technology conference. More info at:
2025 Conference — Civics of Technology
www.civicsoftechnology.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
If you're a caregiver who may have other, less techno-optimistic views of AI/GenAI, then you may be interested in the panel "Theorizing Caregiver Resistance to EdTech" that I'm convening with @alliethrall.bsky.social at next week's Civics of Technology conference. More info at:
A couple copies of Sophisticated Speakers: Atticistic pronunciation in the Atticist lexica are 81% off on Amazon at the moment.
Sophisticated Speakers: Atticistic pronunciation in the Atticist lexica (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 55)
Amazon.com: Sophisticated Speakers: Atticistic pronunciation in the Atticist lexica (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 55): 9783110440409: Vessella, Carlo: Books
amzn.to
July 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A couple copies of Sophisticated Speakers: Atticistic pronunciation in the Atticist lexica are 81% off on Amazon at the moment.
I've never seen such a disjunction as the one between how men are remembering John MacArthur vs. how women are remembering John MacArthur.
July 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I've never seen such a disjunction as the one between how men are remembering John MacArthur vs. how women are remembering John MacArthur.
Awful day today. I had two volumes of Gerhard Kittel in my car and some one broken in and left two more.
July 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Awful day today. I had two volumes of Gerhard Kittel in my car and some one broken in and left two more.
What is wrong with you, Toronto?? Just build the sixplexes. Build every kind of housing you can.
Toronto risks losing $30M in federal funding after vote against sixplexes citywide | CBC News
The city of Toronto is at risk of losing $30 million in federal housing funding after city council voted last month against allowing sixplexes citywide, a key condition of its deal with Ottawa.
www.cbc.ca
July 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
What is wrong with you, Toronto?? Just build the sixplexes. Build every kind of housing you can.
Harold, it's Wednesday.
July 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Harold, it's Wednesday.
Here's a rough off-the-cuff blogpost draft:
Spending time working on Greek grammar resources for Bible translation often requires spending time in commentaries because I need to know what things translation teams are going to be seeing when it comes to grammar.
#biblicalgreek
1/???
Spending time working on Greek grammar resources for Bible translation often requires spending time in commentaries because I need to know what things translation teams are going to be seeing when it comes to grammar.
#biblicalgreek
1/???
June 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Here's a rough off-the-cuff blogpost draft:
Spending time working on Greek grammar resources for Bible translation often requires spending time in commentaries because I need to know what things translation teams are going to be seeing when it comes to grammar.
#biblicalgreek
1/???
Spending time working on Greek grammar resources for Bible translation often requires spending time in commentaries because I need to know what things translation teams are going to be seeing when it comes to grammar.
#biblicalgreek
1/???
I just want to highlight the juxtaposition here between a certain NT scholar's work and this article about Jordan Peterson.
June 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I just want to highlight the juxtaposition here between a certain NT scholar's work and this article about Jordan Peterson.