Robin Leroy

𒉭​𒄿𒈾​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒊭​𒁾𒎌​𒉈𒁍𒌑𒌝
An egg drowning in a sea of papers
𒉭​𒀀𒀊𒁀​𒁾𒁀𒅗​𒁀𒀭𒋢𒋢
一颗在论文海中的蛋
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[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

A new version of 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸.
• Backspacing behaviour is now customized so that character sequences entered as a single sign, e.g., diri 𒋛𒀀, are backspaced atomically.
• 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 is now available for macOS.
https://t.co/XdpMt2LGQI

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

@IrisKamil

[🦋 real life kuudere 🐞 @earthcounter]

"sharks are older than the north star" is now the worst fact i know

[. @IrisKamil]

The Mesopotamian ice trade 🧊🌨️

This letter was sent to our favourite good-for-nothing, Yasmaḫ-Addû, by the vassal king of Carchemish.

It shows us that the practice of harvesting ice and exporting it goes back to as early as the 1750s BCE! (1/6)

[. @IrisKamil]

“Clothes make the awīlum”

In Old Babylonian schools, if you didn’t wear the newest Prada™ robes but instead clothes hand-made by your mum, you were considered to be less loved by her.

… or so argued this spoiled son of a high official. Here is the letter of Iddin-Sîn to Zinû!

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

@IrisKamil @lautgesetz This line of the lament for 𒋀𒀕𒆠 reminded me of the rebranding in general and of this tweet in particular:
𒉅𒄷​𒄷𒈬​𒄷𒈬𒊑𒊑​𒀀​𒍍𒈬​𒂵𒀀𒀭𒅗
https://t.co/An9kWwFvwV

[Catherine @whitequark]

achievement unlocked: get cited in a Unicode Technical Standard https://t.co/N53jbEs4Ks

[The Unicode Consortium @unicode]

✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 15.1 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 149,803! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → https://t.co/ooTcjrayiF #Unicode15_1

[AngusAlchemist @AlchemistAngus]

UK roadsigns as labware:

Liebig condenser. (1/15)

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

Thanks to @pgconstable for pointing out that the Text Services Framework facilitates sequence backspacing, and to @PavlaRosenstein and @erica_scarpa for testing and providing feedback on the macOS version.
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¹ @KFeuerherm, https://t.co/Mqmtl9CSCq, 2011.

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

A new version of 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸.
• Backspacing behaviour is now customized so that character sequences entered as a single sign, e.g., diri 𒋛𒀀, are backspaced atomically.
• 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 is now available for macOS.
https://t.co/XdpMt2LGQI

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

It must be noted that a cuneiform input method¹ has been available for Mac OS X since 2011. However, it uses an old version of what is now the OGSL, and has some limitations: ASCII fallbacks, confusing candidate numbering, etc.; see its README. These are solved in 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸.

[badidea 🪐 @0xabad1dea]

today I got lucky and saw something rare: the hand-operated antique drawbridge was opened so an antique boat could leave the special dock reserved for museum piece boats

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

@roozbehp @iwsfutcmd 𒀭𒊺𒉀​𒍠𒊩

[. @IrisKamil]

One of my favourite features in Akkadian is that sometimes(!) the adverbial marker -iš can be used like the English -ish.

abru "brushwood pile" -> abriš "like a brushwood pile", or in other words: brushwood pileish 😁

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

@ZachMRubin @IrisKamil I am confused by those ED IIIb attestations in https://t.co/UTItvLG0o4; the one 𒄖𒍝 is from a composite whose witnesses both seem to be OB, and the rest are spelled 𒄘𒍝, in one case in 𒄘𒍝​𒌝𒄙 https://t.co/PTMTCc3Wiy; why are the 𒄘𒍝 not https://t.co/D8zlD8zyKm?

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

@AANDeloucas @cwjones89 I suspect part of the mastodon flop may have been people failing to find each other: for instance of the 7 assyriologists I follow there, it appears that you follow two.
I’m not sure how that could be facilitated, regardless of the platform.

[Robin Leroy @eggleroy]

@lautgesetz @IrisKamil Switching from 𒄷 to 𒊑 would have made sense in multiple ways…

Instead we get an illegible sign.

[Anastasia Tchaplyghine (formerly Amrhein) @DrAnastasiaTch]

Orange cat spotted in attendance at @RAI68Leiden Hope it's a good omen!

[. @IrisKamil]

Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy.