Michael Meckler

Permanent Fellow, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University, @[email protected]

[NAJCS @NAJCS_CelticJrn]

NAJCS Issue 6(2) is now available on @ProjectMUSE !

It features five new articles and four book reviews by our fantastic authors.

Check it out here:
https://t.co/1kbQ3Vb7Qm

[Andrew Riggsby @AntiqueThought]

Job application deadline extended to Nov. 7.

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

@Aug354430 @aristofontes @vox_magica ...led to the APA annual meeting becoming the 'job market' that most in our generation remember. I can't off the top of my head remember in which year the APA shifted to a late December meeting date, but it was around that time and to accommodate the job market.

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

@MsCBristow The adjustable lectern-as-computer desk has been a tremendous help in managing pain, especially now that we spend so much time daily in front of the computer.

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

'The emperor who leads 30 legions, like the modern president who can order missile launches and drone attacks, is always the smartest man in the room. And an emperor's defeated opponents are regularly labeled "latrones", a term which, in the 21st century,...

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

@PaulFound17 ...and Nat King Cole, who popularised the song), the historic pronunciation of 'route' to rhyme with 'fruit' prevailed.

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

@PaulFound17 ...so the 'route' as 'rout' pronunciation is a LEARNED pronuncation, meaning, that people reading the word but not hearing it regularly analogised the pronunciation to that of the similarly spelled word 'rout', since they weren't aware of its historic pronunciation....

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

@PaulFound17 'route' pronounced like 'rout' is not a pronunciation that evolved following the rules of historical linguistics; the proper historically derived pronunciation is like 'fruit'....

[UofGCelticGaelic @CelticGaelic]

Prof. Katherine Forsyth @morantango of @CelticGaelic welcomes applications for PhD study on the history & culture of Celtic-speaking peoples in the 1st millennium AD, particularly on epigraphy, literacy & sculpture. Scholarship competition closes 28/11/22 https://t.co/Yiru2BYjfm

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

@ETreharne ...The audience watched in stunned silence, but the speaker, who was facing the other direction and was concentrating on his lecture, continued on without noticing. At the lecture's end, he was informed why the audience had such a disconcerted reaction in the middle of his talk.

[Pitt Classics @PITTclassics]

Job Alert! 🚨 The Dept of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a TT Asst Prof specializing in ancient cultural history. We welcome candidates who approach ancient Greece and Rome as part of a multicultural ancient Mediterranean. #ClassicsTwitter

[Boydell & Brewer @boydellbrewer]

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[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

...So to conclude, bringing the vocabulary test back to the forefront of the crossword puzzle would certainly make this longtime enthusiast happy. (My rant is done.)

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

...Now I have had discussions with other crossword fans who believe differently, but I would love for these syndicated newspaper crossword puzzle creators to set rules that abbreviations and acronyms will make up fewer than 10 percent of answers,...

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

...involved phrases whose meaning could be changed by adding the letters IM (in that order) to one of the words in the answer phrase. Now, I appreciate the amusement of a puzzle theme, as well as the difficulties in creating crossword puzzles....

[Michael Meckler @MichaelMeckler]

...(An additional clue was a proper noun, but the answer itself could be construed as a common word.) So fewer than half of the answers represented a test of vocabulary. Several clues dealt with pop culture and slang. Four of the phrase answers fit the puzzle theme, which...