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The Tyrsenian languages, also called Tyrrhenian or Common Tyrrhenic, were a proposed family of languages spoken in Europe. The Tyrsenian languages, all three of which that have been identified, are all now long extinct. They are Etruscan, Rhaetian, and Lemnian. The grouping was first put forward by linguist Helmut Rix in 1998. It was namedContinue reading “The Tyrsenian languages”

The Ancient Romans (Latin: Rōmanī / Ancient Greek: Ῥωμαῖοι, Rhōmaîoi) famous for their culture, intellect, literature, militarism, empire, politics, and more, were #obsessed with circles 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️⚪️🟤 The Roman Empire (unified 27BC-AD395; Western AD395-476/80; Eastern AD395-1453) spanned a considerable proportion of Europe and surrounding regions at its height, although the Romans first and foremost boasted aContinue reading “THEY were obsessed with circles”

The English word “school” is derived, through Middle English scole, from the Old English scōl, scolu (“place of education”) – which was reinforced in medieval England under Norman rule by the Old French escole (école in modern French). Old English may have carried this term through from Proto-Germanic *skōla (“school”); regardless, in Late Latin itContinue reading “Back to School: well, looking back to the etymology of the word “school” (and more)…”

ARABIC يمين yamīn ‘right’ يسار yasār ‘left’ Arabic yamīn, also meaning ‘oath’, is a cognate with yumn ‘auspiciousness’ and al-Yaman ‘Yemen’; yasār, also meaning ‘wealth’, is a cognate with yusr ‘ease, facility’. PERSIAN AND KURDISH راست rāst ‘right’ (Kurdish spelling rast) چپ chap ‘left’ (Kurdish spelling çep) The Persian rāst ‘right (direction); straight; true’ alsoContinue reading “Left & right in languages of the East (and Swahili)”

The Code of Ur-Nammu is the oldest known law code surviving today. It is from Mesopotamia and is written on clay tablets, in the Sumerian language c. 2100–2050 BCE. The reign of Ur-Nammu is generally regarded to have been peaceful and prosperous. The Code of Ur-Nammu may be divided into two parts, the first isContinue reading “The Codex of Ur-Nammu”

/I am obsessed with all these peplum dresses Sarah Burton has been doing at Alexander McQueen. A totally fresh, new angle on customary femininity! Because the McQueen woman is indeed a paradox. Her inner world is a complex state of affairs that McQueen can support her in unfurling, assisting her to flourish and thrive –Continue reading “//Linguistics&Fashion//: how Alexander McQueen fashioned himself as the Saussure of fashion”

__________… The philological pertinence of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (/mʊŋk/ MUUNK, [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk]; 1863 – 1944) within the study of Western Indo-European-Nostratic languages… The goal is to be able to die saying “We lived, loved and rose!” Like how Munch learnt to do, from a dark childhood of illness and bereavement, going on to adoptContinue reading “~ What is she Munch-ing on? ~”

“Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.” – Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)… Michelangelo’s influence on Western art is heralded as unparalleled, and we wouldn’t even have #ModernArt today without his input, no matter how discordant our worlds of now and then may seem. But is #Michelangelo in fact overrated, andContinue reading “Is Michelangelo overrated?”

I first dabbled with the Tongva language, a shrewdly and sharply galvanic Uto-Aztecan/Uto-Aztekan/Uto-Nahuan language historically spoken in spoken in Southern California around Los Angeles (Yaanga) and on Santa Catalina Island around a year-and-a-half ago when I first began to tackle Amerindian philology. Tongva has not been used in the context of everyday conversation since theContinue reading “Tongva”

🇬🇧 CREATIVITY art mastery 🏛 CREŌ, “to create, make” artem (accusative), ars (nominative) peritia 🇷🇺 КРЕАТИВНОСТЬ kreativnost’, творчество tvorchestvo искусство iskusstvo мастерство masterstvo 🇬🇷 ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ dimiourgikótita τέχνη téchni μαεστρία maestría 🇮🇷 خلاقیت khlaqat هنر hnr مهارت mhart 🇹🇷 YARATICILIK sanat ustalık 🇯🇵 創造性 sōzō-sei 美術 bijutsu 習熟 shūjuku 🇲🇳 уран бүтээлийн авьяас чадвар ᠤᠷᠠᠨ ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠭᠡᠯ ᠦᠨContinue reading “🎨”