Øyvind Bjøru

Ph.D. in Assyriology and the Hebrew Bible from @UTAustin. Reading Akkadian letters 24-7, and enjoying the first 66% of history #mesopotamia. (he/him)

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

New article out! Well, pretty old research but it's finally published. Go! Read! Enjoy! (It's on the imperative...)

https://t.co/HQdtU4mbrO

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@Krouse722 Thanks Kyle!

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@OlaWikander This is the quantum mechanics of history. A king is equally present in at least two disconnected centuries!

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@OlaWikander As long as it is with a retroflex approximant of course! #trøndersk

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@AANDeloucas @EliTadmor Appreciate the frustration, and this is not exactly about Akkadian, but I've got comparable things to say about that. I think intransitive, or non-agent-driven is a more basic category than passive: https://t.co/SFvYeLekc3

[Selena Wisnom @LSWisnom]

Want to know when the next UK general election will be? I asked the livers to find out! Watch the live extispicy and interpretation here: https://t.co/Cv6gM0RrWW

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@cdli_news Any word on why CDLI is so sluggish/not loading most of the time?

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@Metroidpotamia @ZachMRubin Would love one!

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@bnuyaminim @phillipwstokes @iwsfutcmd @ManishEarth @aryaman2020 @roozbehp @OlaWikander Appreciate it! I’m still very curious about this, obviously. If CCVC, do you see it as the base of the PC then?

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@OlaWikander This is the cruelest quiz I have ever seen! Oy vey, to choose between these utterly cool traits!?!

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@bnuyaminim @yvanspijk From more peripheral Germanic, for what it’s worth, in Norwegian ‘legg’ is ‘shin’, and ‘bein’ is ‘bone’ and ‘leg’.

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@ZachMRubin I set up autocorrect in Word for 'c' > ʿ and something random for ʾ. Yeah, it only works in Word, so I copy from there when I need it.

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

Had the students making their own cartouches last week. They were pretty great at it! #ancientEgypt #hieroglyphs

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@bnuyaminim @PhDniX @PhDniX and @bnuyaminim you are being too etymologically sophisticated about this. Let's hope Jordan is just on a steady downward trend...

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@dietweeterei But more importantly, I thought it was an awesome thesis! Learned a bunch!

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@dietweeterei Yes, the maturation point is tricky, isn't it? When is it really a copula? I keep using the term proto-copula, in which 'proto-' of course means 'I can see where this quest might lead you, but you are barely out the door yet'.

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@Krouse722 Stop it. You earned it! 🎉 And whenever life throws you ŠI-signs, make lim-onade...!

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@azforeman The latter is mostly reserved for translations that are freer and poetic in the target language. A modern Norwegian Edda is a 'gjenfortelling', and a poetic Iliad in Norwegian would be a 'gjendikting'.

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@azforeman In Norwegian, we have two words for similar concepts: 'gjenfortelling' and 'gjendiktning'. The former spans everything from recounting every detail you have witnessed the accused do to retelling a story in a more modern idiom (like hertaling?).

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

@IrisKamil https://t.co/YtRjhHHFne

[Øyvind Bjøru @oybjo]

New article out today! Primarily a study in "try-a-funny title" and "cannot-with-this subtitle".