100 Historical Things, Number 17

OK, to start with, just to clarify: onomastics is the study of names.

Now, I enjoy onomastics. It's useful in what I do, because I don't only study scripts and languages, I'm also very much invested in studying the people writing and speaking those scripts and languages. (I did talk a little bit about this already ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 9At some point, I really should talk about my own research. Seeing as this is a public set of posts, I'll keep it fairly anonymous and won't mention my real name or the exact titles of my publications, nor will I expound in detail the theories that are my intellectual property. Because, you know, academia is one of ( Read more... )

I have a friend[1] who is asking the following ( Read more... )

Just opened an email from someone I don't know with the subject line 'How much was a sesterce?' If that's spam, it horribly well tailored to me :) But no, it turns out it's a message to a UK Classics list that says the following:

I noticed that Martial (book 1) is selling his books at 6-10 sesterces ( Read more... )

So guess what my plan is for getting my Spanish back up to scratch?

robinhood_spain :)

I'm feeling very squeeful that the Spanish word for fandom is 'fandom'!

Yo tengo muchos fandoms, como Robin Hood, Los Profesionales, Doctor Quién...

Dr Who is at 6.20pm on BBC1 tonight!

The trailers I've seen look good, so I'm excited :)

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Now then, the second series of Heroes has just started airing here (Thursdays on BBC2). Have people been waiting for this, or did people not know it was happening, or what? I was... well, let's not say excited, but I was looking forward to it. The first ( Read more... )

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