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Linguistics, Ancient Greek, photography, transit, leftist. Greek linguistics at SIL International Editor at http://Koine-Greek.com. Opinions my own. He/him 🇨🇦 & 🇺🇸

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When your computer doesn't post after a BIOS update and you freak out, but then you just clear CMOS and everything is fine.

18.02.2026 15:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Linked post from Jay Owen, CEO, that says:

I’m starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf about AI.

But this is not a false alarm.

If you’re a white collar knowledge worker of any kind and you’re not spending at least an hour a day experimenting with AI tools… your job is at risk.

That’s not exaggeration. That’s math.

Most people are still playing with free versions of tools from a year ago. Most people still think AI is the thing that draws hands with six fingers.

Meanwhile, AI is writing its own code to improve itself. The best software engineers on the planet are saying this openly.

I’m not warning you because I want to scare you. I’m warning you because I want to help.

Right now is both the greatest opportunity and the greatest danger most of us will face in our careers. In our finances. In our livelihoods.

There have always been moments in history where someone pointed to the horizon and said “a storm is coming.” This is that moment.

But here’s the thing about storms. The people who prepare don’t just survive them. They lead through them.

You still have time. But the window is closing faster than most people realize.

What are you doing today to prepare?

Linked post from Jay Owen, CEO, that says: I’m starting to feel like the boy who cried wolf about AI. But this is not a false alarm. If you’re a white collar knowledge worker of any kind and you’re not spending at least an hour a day experimenting with AI tools… your job is at risk. That’s not exaggeration. That’s math. Most people are still playing with free versions of tools from a year ago. Most people still think AI is the thing that draws hands with six fingers. Meanwhile, AI is writing its own code to improve itself. The best software engineers on the planet are saying this openly. I’m not warning you because I want to scare you. I’m warning you because I want to help. Right now is both the greatest opportunity and the greatest danger most of us will face in our careers. In our finances. In our livelihoods. There have always been moments in history where someone pointed to the horizon and said “a storm is coming.” This is that moment. But here’s the thing about storms. The people who prepare don’t just survive them. They lead through them. You still have time. But the window is closing faster than most people realize. What are you doing today to prepare?

Tell me you haven't read "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf'" without telling me you haven't read "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf'".

15.02.2026 00:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Congratulations! Your Manuscript has been submitted successfully.

"Congratulations! Your Manuscript has been submitted successfully.

Feels good, but life's been so stressful lately, it's a little hard to celebrate.

11.02.2026 22:03 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Israeli strikes kill 23 Palestinians as Gaza ceasefire inches forward Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians Saturday, one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire aimed at stopping the fighting.

Hey NPR. It isn't a ceasefire if one side keeps shooting.

31.01.2026 13:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ruminations on that DHS Penguin Tweet
Ruminations on that DHS Penguin Tweet YouTube video by Folding Ideas
27.01.2026 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly, if anything should be in walking distance, it's Gary's Flying J and the Bears stadium.

26.01.2026 16:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Gary Indiana's proposal for the Chicago Bears stadium is 80% parking lots over what is currently Lake Etta Park.

26.01.2026 02:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think that a key purpose of citation is to give credit for ideas (and to help people situate those ideas). For this reason, the fact that my colleagues are seeking out alternative English-language papers to cite seems bananas.

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21.01.2026 20:09 👍 34 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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So far on the prepositions book cover post, Bluesky is winning over my locked twitter account, but only by a single like. I'm rooting for Bluesky.

20.01.2026 21:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We've got a cover and we're racing to get our final adjustments to the body finished in the next 10 days!

20.01.2026 13:26 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good

This David French article shows the analytic peril of ignoring the way normal policing and repression work in communities of color. The so-called "dual state" he's highlighting (laws applied unequally, non-compliance met with violence) is *exactly* what Black Lives Matter was protesting.

18.01.2026 13:03 👍 1245 🔁 370 💬 30 📌 28

#linguistics #biblicalgreek

15.01.2026 22:03 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wilson & Aubrey (2017) Language Universals, Typology, and Markedness Wilson & Aubrey (2017) Language Universals, Typology, and Markedness

Lastly, I've uploaded the full pdf of mine and Daniel Wilson's chapter: Wilson & Aubrey (2017) Language Universals, Typology, and Markedness.

04.01.2026 23:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aubrey (2017) The Value of Linguistically Informed Exegesis I make the case that contemporary linguistic theory provides a strong methodological basis for the exegesis of the biblical text, using examples from typology and construction grammar.

I also just uploaded the full pdf of my chapter: Aubrey (2017) The Value of Linguistically Informed Exegesis to Academia.edu.

04.01.2026 23:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Aubrey (2017) Linguistic Issues in Biblical Greek This paper surveys the state of the field of New Testament Greek grammar & linguistics, covering topics such as syntax, word order, tense, aspect, and mood, voice, and lexical semantics. The persp...

I just uploaded the full pdf of my chapter:
Aubrey (2017) Linguistic Issues in Biblical Greek to Academia.edu. #biblicalgreek #linguistics
www.academia.edu/37886221/Aub...

04.01.2026 23:43 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That moment when you're in final edits for your book on on prepositions and you realize ἕνεκα is sometimes a postposition, too.

03.01.2026 22:06 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A better gloss, then, for this chunk of text would be:

ἀνηλίσκετο δὲ αὐτῷ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν σεμιδάλεως ἀρτάβαι δέκα δύο...
“And lavished upon it each day were twelve arbatas of the finely ground flour...”
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27.12.2025 18:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

σεμιδάλεως is genitive, not nominative. It shouldn't be part of the list. Rather it modifies the nominative ἀρτάβαι. Also, translating σεμιδάλεως as 'the finest flour' risks a misunderstanding. The narrator not is talking about the quality, but about the particle size.

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27.12.2025 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Here's the Greek text:
καὶ ἦν εἴδωλον, Βήλ, ὃ ἐσέβοντο οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι· ἀνηλίσκετο δὲ αὐτῷ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν σεμιδάλεως ἀρτάβαι δέκα δύο καὶ πρόβατα τέσσαρα καὶ ἐλαίου μετρηταὶ ἕξ.

Note that σεμιδάλεως ἀρτάβαι δέκα δύο is glossed 'the finest wheat flour'.
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27.12.2025 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Added to my LES2 error list.
Bel & the Dragon 3
Now there was an idol, named Bel, that the Babylonians worshiped. And there was lavished upon it each day the finest wheat flour, twelve artabas of flour, and four sheep, and six measures of olive oil.
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#Septuagint #biblicalgreek

27.12.2025 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Basically Deborah Tannen's New York vs. California?

24.12.2025 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

03.12.2025 21:04 👍 1552 🔁 360 💬 23 📌 13

Crickets.

02.12.2025 00:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is how linguists and other cognitive scientists do it.

01.12.2025 22:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"Our original crypto food delivery idea."

29.11.2025 21:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Arrived in Chicago from #sblaar. Exhausted and need to sleep for a week.

25.11.2025 23:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rachel and I are presenting in just over an hour. See you there #biblicalgreek #sblaar

23.11.2025 16:44 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This morning a church elder made my wife cry and I just need to say somewhere how wrong that is.

31.10.2025 20:58 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤦

25.10.2025 22:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glad to be of service!

25.10.2025 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0