…what does this first century elite dude know about nursing an infant? He’s never done it, maybe seen it, likely didn’t care to try and understand it.I’m thinking how the tropes that likely existed influence the experiential interpretation of role metaphors, which doesn’t seem to be spoken of much.
I’m reading through your book at the moment and thinking about role metaphors (eg male authors using maternal metaphors) in the same space. Can you see overlap there? I can see that as an interesting interpretive lens, and what should have been an obvious thought… (1/2)
Having just written a PhD thesis on Seneca, I’m listening…
…and the danger of erroneously accepting stereotypes of minorities as presented by the majority group; which has me wanting to reread my preseation of mother and orphan metaphor in my thesis (and also gives me a new paper idea).
Plus she used the word Salient multiple times, take that reviewer #1.
Just got done listening to Ellen Muehlberger on this speaking about her work “Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge and the Late Antique World.” Things that grabbed me were the common misconception that the ancients were just trying to be like us and failing…
If it turns out that I’m wrong about anything, I hope that in being wrong I’m found to also have been kind.
I can be both excited by its existence, and relieved that I finalise my thesis next week and don’t have to find it and reference it :)
The word "pedigree" comes from the Middle English "pedegru", via the Old French "pie de true", meaning "foot of a crane". The metaphor comes from the habit of marking family lineages at the time with a three-lined "claw mark" that looked like a crane's foot.
#phdposting #linguistics
Breaks out? What? In a skin rash? Some dance moves?
May you know rest, refreshment and joy today!
Would you accept a middle class well wisher? Best I can do.
And there’s a precedent from 1930 when England played against NZ and West Indies with different sides on the same day. And good games for the ‘A’ sides. And red ball specialists could probably play both test series, for the Lyon’s of the world who won’t play many T20 leagues.
Random #cricket thought, but instead of a hard two-tier split in #testcricket, why couldn’t we give test status to matches between the second tier nations and the leading ‘A’ sides? A lot of logistics obviously - but watching NZ rest key players against Zimbabwe it’s not bizarre.
Fascinating!
This is what happens when you do research in baseball season.
“And behold I am with you always - even in your conference hotel” - Matthew 28.20
I mean, what purpose could a university possibly have for (checks notes) academics?
Makes a load of sense (eyeroll)
Also interesting is that the purpose of Archimedes’ book, Archimedis Syracusani Arenarius & Dimensio Circuli, was the highly practical task of calculating an upper limit on the number of grains of sand that could fit in the universe.
Et fin. (4/4)
So yeah. Copernicus is a plagiarist and should be discredited as such (not really), and the theory is over 22 centuries old. (3/4)
…of Samos (died around 230BC), as the origin of the theory. The interesting bit is that Copernicus (who inspired Galileo to prove the heliocentric solar system model) originally cited the idea as Aristarchus’ in a draft, then removed the citation in later versions. (2/4)
/tldr - Copernicus was a plagiarist and the universe holds lots of sand.
So the kids made me watch a documentary thing about Galileo, and I had the thought “wasn’t there some ancient dude who hypothesized a heliocentric universe?” So I looked it up and yeah, Archimedes mentions Aristarchus… (1/4)
Is there a way to get compensation lawsuits going? Start hitting them economically? Only language they speak.
And occasionally slips in as my Facebook profile pic, thanks to the passing resemblance!
Sic semper tyrannis.
I had a similar thought. I affirm any righteous actions they make.
And condemn the unrighteous ones.
Ok but is the fake Andy Weir title the AI being self referential?
I mean in that post, Poso acknowledges that all refugees should receive the same treatment as the South Africans have, so there’s that…
Ok so plot twist, pizza is the accusative plural, a la “ossa” for “os”. The real issue here is that we’ve been misusing the singular “piz” for centuries.
Also, I’ve never wanted to visit a pizza place more in my life.
Oh, and while I’m totally for deconstructing billionaire wealth, we also need to acknowledge that the vast majority of westerners live globally unsustainable lives, just because we can.
And also, there is a massive difference between individual billionaire joyrides and NASA, as I commented on the other post.