Ellen Muehlberger
@emuehlbe.bsky.social
Michigander with ideas about ancient history, writing, cats, bikes
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
I'm probably gonna ask you what you're writing
Things Unseen, available open access from University of California Press: https://luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1525/luminos.253
omg you sunk my battleship
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
omg you sunk my battleship
I mean, there's definitely a danger in being too comfortable---every term, there was at least one person who at week six realized that no, the cognates were not going to power them through after all, and that's a terrible moment
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I mean, there's definitely a danger in being too comfortable---every term, there was at least one person who at week six realized that no, the cognates were not going to power them through after all, and that's a terrible moment
so Last Christmas was retaliation for WEF? I don't think we've seen Midwestern at these levels before, your children are on the right path
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
so Last Christmas was retaliation for WEF? I don't think we've seen Midwestern at these levels before, your children are on the right path
I joke with students in Syriac who have done work in other Semitic languages that we're just learning a new font
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I joke with students in Syriac who have done work in other Semitic languages that we're just learning a new font
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Mike's episode list is *awesome*
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Mike's episode list is *awesome*
teach me your ways
no really I mean it I want to learn how to deploy the stare
no really I mean it I want to learn how to deploy the stare
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
teach me your ways
no really I mean it I want to learn how to deploy the stare
no really I mean it I want to learn how to deploy the stare
hello handsome schnuz-face
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
hello handsome schnuz-face
and I'm a step removed---that's my memory of the story but it's not my story
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
and I'm a step removed---that's my memory of the story but it's not my story
that would assume that the rider I'm talking about has style, which is a stretch lol
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
that would assume that the rider I'm talking about has style, which is a stretch lol
I will place my bets right now about who in my club turns up in these next spring
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I will place my bets right now about who in my club turns up in these next spring
story I heard was D saying "look, it's only a few lines [of the famous festal letter]" and Bentley giving whatever his generation's equivalent of the Gen Z stare would be, then D going somewhere to learn Armenian
(I think so, but it's lore and lore is always retold!)
(I think so, but it's lore and lore is always retold!)
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
story I heard was D saying "look, it's only a few lines [of the famous festal letter]" and Bentley giving whatever his generation's equivalent of the Gen Z stare would be, then D going somewhere to learn Armenian
(I think so, but it's lore and lore is always retold!)
(I think so, but it's lore and lore is always retold!)
(pastor, this is why people think you drive a Subaru)
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
(pastor, this is why people think you drive a Subaru)
I don't know that I had the strength for it---gotta respect a language that is somehow more agglutinative than German---but I did know enough at one point to legitimately read and translate that one paragraph of Ps-Aelius Theon
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I don't know that I had the strength for it---gotta respect a language that is somehow more agglutinative than German---but I did know enough at one point to legitimately read and translate that one paragraph of Ps-Aelius Theon
<waves in Armenian>
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
<waves in Armenian>
a polka-dotted bird with a jaunty red spot? what's not to love
November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
a polka-dotted bird with a jaunty red spot? what's not to love
yes! squawky little numbers
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
yes! squawky little numbers