Zack S. ☧
@SkripZack
I saw this first hand when I was teaching college English in 2012-2013. My Comp 1301 students were predominantly white, middle class kids from a "good" ISD in the suburbs of Harris county. Fresh out of grad school and bubbling with enthusiasm about my fledgling career as a…
Thesis: The H1B crisis was caused by America's K12 Schools lying about grades. TL;DR: We're gonna be lucky if the worst we get is Zohran Mamdani unless we start holding K12 accountable. Let me tell you a story about a kid we'll call Jack. Jack was a bright, hard-working kid…
I am VERY PLEASED to announce that The Anglican Office Book now has an online edition. The complete Office is available, in both English and Latin, as well as with some musical notation. Many thanks to @shevans02 for his work on this project. anglicanoffice.com
Just another friendly reminder thar PRDL dot org is one of the greatest digital gifts to Reformation scholars, pastors, and educated laypersons.
In Tolkien’s Letters to Father Christmas, the people of the North Pole speak Arktik, which is actually Quenya. Also, Father Christmas’s secretary is Ilbereth, which sounds a lot like Elbereth, aka Varda. All signs point to Father Christmas being a great Elf-lord, or perhaps even…
What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?
Five aorist imperative forms with irregular accentuation: λαβέ – take! εὑρέ – find! ἐλθέ – come! ἰδέ – look! εἰπέ – speak! A helpful mnemonic for German speakers: Labet eure Eltern in der Kneipe!
I'm convinced that those who do not rank The Silver Chair in the top tier of the Chronicles don't understand it.
Learning vocabulary is tedious. But here’s how I learned 3,000+ words in a year: > 20 flashcards a day > Review them three times a day (once before bed) > At the end of the day, remove the ones you got right > Keep the ones you got wrong Pro tip: Don’t write the translation…
Start your Great Books journey in Mesopotamia, or you'll miss the foundational narratives that inspired and contrasted with everything that came after.
Your body can either aid or hinder your pursuit of godliness. Where God leaves weakness, we boast in Christ’s power. Where He gives strength, we thank Him for mercy. But we are responsible not to make our bodies an impediment to godliness.
Ναπολέων ἀπολέων πόλεων ὁλέων λέων ἑῶν ὤν Napoleon, future destroyer of entire cities, as the lion of his people.
After yesterday’s Greek frequency list, here’s a Latin equivalent with 1500 words that follows the same 80% rule. It’s based on Paul Diederich’s 1939 dissertation „The frequency of Latin words and their endings“. hiberna-cr.wdfiles.com/local--files/d…
Jesus spoke Greek
This is all over the place in Matthew. I personally am convinced that Matthew recorded many verbatim teachings of Jesus that he originally spoke in Greek and reveal Jesus’s wit in said language. Just look at the alliteration in the opening or the sermon on the mount:…
I didn't think I was buying any more picture books, but when another one comes out in Ancient Greek, I mean, how can I resist?? @contubernales2
An Ancient Greek vocabulary frequency list, clocking in at 1100 words. About 80% of any given text is made up of these (based on the Perseus database). By Wilfred E. Major from Louisiana State University. promotelatin.org/images/stories…
The passage in question. Historiae A, 133 The Persian λόγος
The ancient Persians (says Herodotus) had a practice of making decisions first when drunk, then while sober. Only if they came to the same view in both states was the decision ratified.
Herodotus faithfully reported that creatures burrow into the gold-rich earth of India and come up with gold. His informant called them murmekes, Greek for ‘ants’. But the word meant ‘marmots’ in his language, and Peissel reported in the 1990s that Indian marmots burrow in the…
Herodotus is our best storyteller this side of Apollonius. Gotta love those giant gold-digging ants.
When Buzzfeed hasn't written a listicle for your Google search. What do you all think?
