Matthew Scarborough 𐏋
@mattitiahu.bsky.social
Philologist and historical linguist. (ⲛ̄ⲧⲟϥ/ⲛ̄ⲧⲟⲟⲩ)
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1782-5223
https://hcommons.org/members/mscarborough/
https://consultingphilologist.wordpress.com/
https://brill.com/display/title/57781
https://iecor.clld.org/
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1782-5223
https://hcommons.org/members/mscarborough/
https://consultingphilologist.wordpress.com/
https://brill.com/display/title/57781
https://iecor.clld.org/
I invite you to consider
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I invite you to consider
Johnny Silverhand is my co-pilot.
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Johnny Silverhand is my co-pilot.
Thomas Olander gives his inaugural lecture as full professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen: Historien i sproget.
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Thomas Olander gives his inaugural lecture as full professor of Indo-European Studies at the University of Copenhagen: Historien i sproget.
In other news I have apparently been friends with a chicken that lived in the courtyard of a student house in Leiden I was staying at during the summer of 2009 for 16 years now.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In other news I have apparently been friends with a chicken that lived in the courtyard of a student house in Leiden I was staying at during the summer of 2009 for 16 years now.
(Honourable mention bonus hog.)
October 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
(Honourable mention bonus hog.)
Δράκετε τὴν παντελέα μονάδα.
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Δράκετε τὴν παντελέα μονάδα.
For what it's worth, it turns out Crimea is also missing in the original 1995 DOS version.
October 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For what it's worth, it turns out Crimea is also missing in the original 1995 DOS version.
There is something quite wrong with this Metro Station.
October 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
There is something quite wrong with this Metro Station.
Interpreting as
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Interpreting as
Sometimes I really hate the English language.
October 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Sometimes I really hate the English language.
Quick question on behalf of my friends in the language psychology subsection of the department: In your variety of English what would you call these glossy commercial sales pamplets that inform on weekly deals that are typically stuffed into your mailbox every week?
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Quick question on behalf of my friends in the language psychology subsection of the department: In your variety of English what would you call these glossy commercial sales pamplets that inform on weekly deals that are typically stuffed into your mailbox every week?
this is a t-shirt design I submitted to the university of alberta history and classics graduate student association a decade and a half ago that they never made because they were cowards.
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
this is a t-shirt design I submitted to the university of alberta history and classics graduate student association a decade and a half ago that they never made because they were cowards.
Just another totally normal day at the office struggling to write this report.
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just another totally normal day at the office struggling to write this report.
Some more context from Hawkins & Weeden (2024) Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Berlin: De Gruyter, p.593.
October 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Some more context from Hawkins & Weeden (2024) Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Berlin: De Gruyter, p.593.
For now here's the weird little guy in question.
October 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
For now here's the weird little guy in question.
Finally broke iOS by putting Luwian Hieroglyphs in my profile name.
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Finally broke iOS by putting Luwian Hieroglyphs in my profile name.
One of the things I’m most pleased about my dissertation that I’m sad that had to be modified for the revised Brill book is that the isogloss tables appendix was an A3 fold-out sheet.
October 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
One of the things I’m most pleased about my dissertation that I’m sad that had to be modified for the revised Brill book is that the isogloss tables appendix was an A3 fold-out sheet.
Chat... with PDFs...?!?
September 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Chat... with PDFs...?!?
It’s another beautiful day in Ørestad Syd.
September 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It’s another beautiful day in Ørestad Syd.
I believe we have a winner today. (150 DKK)
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I believe we have a winner today. (150 DKK)
Ok this 1824 text and Danish translation of Bion of Smyrna is pretty cool (but I’m not going to spend 500 DKK on it.)
September 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Ok this 1824 text and Danish translation of Bion of Smyrna is pretty cool (but I’m not going to spend 500 DKK on it.)
DET GAMLE TESTAMENTE.
det nye testamente.
det nye testamente.
September 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
DET GAMLE TESTAMENTE.
det nye testamente.
det nye testamente.
Someone has a sense of humour.
September 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Someone has a sense of humour.
