Ola Wikander

I partly grew up on Spider Man. And I'll tell you: Spider Man Brand New Day is – to me – the first real Spider Man movie. Excellent stuff!

Ola Wikander

29 июл., 17:28

Ugaritic word of the day: ỉšt ("fire"). Attested in syllabic writing as i-ši-[t]u4, suggesting the vocalization /ʔišītu/.

Ola Wikander

29 июл., 15:30

Uuuuuugh. www.news.com.au/technology/o...

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Ola Wikander

28 июл., 17:59

Nor are the Etruscans "mysterious" as such – the weird thing is not that non-IE languages existed in Europe. If anything, the weird thing is that there weren't more!

Ola Wikander

It so irritates me when some popular media keeps portraying Etruscan as "undeciphered", more or less. Its not – it just has a corpus that doesn't give us super much to work with. A lot of what we do have is quite understandable, and has been for a long time now.

Ola Wikander

28 июл., 17:43

It so irritates me when some popular media keeps portraying Etruscan as "undeciphered", more or less. Its not – it just has a corpus that doesn't give us super much to work with. A lot of what we do have is quite understandable, and has been for a long time now.

Ola Wikander

28 июл., 03:03

Ugaritic word of the day: gg ("roof").

Ola Wikander

27 июл., 19:12

"READ KROPOTKIN!" Ah, Copenhagen...

Ola Wikander

26 июл., 06:59

Ok, today's little test: how many friends in here remember SuperShadow, or at least know (without googling, vel sim.) what the name refers to?

Ola Wikander

26 июл., 05:55

Proto-Indo-European root of the day: *ǵneh₃- ("to know, to get to know, to recognize"), giving, amongst many many others, English "know, knowledge" and Greek γνῶσις, "knowledge, insight, gnōsis".

Ola Wikander

25 июл., 18:18

Me talking about how I tend to teach Classical Hebrew: youtu.be/LvNV1gKIhxw?...

Hebrew As She Is Taught (at least in Lund) - Ola Wikander's Banal/Awesome Biblical & SemiticYouTube video by Ola Wikander – [Baalcycle]youtu.be

Ola Wikander

22 июл., 14:32

Me talking about Northwest Semitic: youtu.be/Q3R311ZbIwI?...

What's Up with Northwest Semitic? (Ola Wikander's Linguistic/Biblical Banal Yet Awesome no... X?)YouTube video by Ola Wikander – [Baalcycle]youtu.be

Ola Wikander

21 июл., 18:41

Back in Ronneby yet again, for this year's writing stay!

Ola Wikander

17 июл., 12:16

Yours truly talking at the "Resilience of the Word" conference at Kiel!

Ola Wikander

16 июл., 12:18

Talk on "El, Marduk, YHWH, and nṯr: The Motif of the Magical God and Golem-like Beings in Bronze Age Sources and Iron-Age Survivals" just delivered at the Kiel conference! Recited quite a bit of Enuma Elish ;-)