April 9th, 2016 9:27am
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April 5th, 2016 6:13pm
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What the city of ancient Rome looked like in 320 CE (and not just the Colosseum or the Forum, either)
April 2nd, 2016 9:42am
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kylo: I’m being torn apart
Han Solo: (visibly struggling with a profound and painful conflict. he is silent for a long time, breathing audibly in the empty space. then the struggle is over, and he has lost to something he hates in himself, something stronger than his will. he speaks.) hi being torn apart
kylo: no
Han Solo: I’m dadApril 2nd, 2016 9:22am
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Hapax Legomenon: a word or form occurring only once in a document or corpus. This term is usually applied to words in the Hebrew bible, whose meanings are uncertain or unknown. Hebrew had been a dead language for almost 1,800 years. The only way it was preserved was in sacred writings. And Hebrew is written without vowels, to give the precise word, and without punctutation, which helps give context clues. It is unsurprising then that the meanings of words which appear only once or twice have been lost. There are about 1,500 hapax legomena in the Hebrew bible. However, due to Hebrew roots, suffixes and prefixes (which have been used to make educated guesses), there are only 400 “true” hapax legomena, ones with no clearly related words in Hebrew.
March 29th, 2016 7:25am
