F. Capelle
@FennaCapelle
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Student, poet and generally obsessed with language in a somewhat unhealthy manner - wordy, too 😁
Joined July 2020
The messy shift of power from Rome to Constantinopel, the spread of Christianity and the Frankish war - sounds like this could be great fun 🏺⚔️
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Stages of studying Ancient Greek in immersion. My advice: Simple and direct language is usually a very good idea. Too much explicit politeness reeks of decadence and barbarism. 🧐 I'd say it's pretty much the same for Latin.
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"I wish you a nice Sunday, friendly parents, fine food, long walks, a clear head." —Franz Kafka, letter, 1912
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Also I made some shortbread (: It was entirely too sweet (if ever that were a true objection!) 🤣
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Yay! It's been officially published! I am grateful to have worked on this dictionary together with many other people from Polis 🌹 It's an exhaustive, original and exciting lexicon, that I can recommend any scholar of the Greek language to acquire https://t.co/noNRsuYtSV
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Imagine!!! Instead of Hört! Hört! Hört, Rachegötter! Hört der Mutter Schwur! One might translate the last 2 lines as: שְׁמַע! שְׁמַע! שְׁמַע, כֹּה נִשְׁבַּעְתִּי שְׁמַע, חֲמַת הַאֵם!
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A thought - how absolutely terrifying and magnificent would the famous Queen of the Night aria (Mozart's Zauberflöte) sound if sung in Biblical Hebrew 😳
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Χαλεπὸν τὸ μὴ φιλῆσαι· χαλεπὸν δὲ καὶ φιλῆσαι· χαλεπώτερον δὲ πάντων ἀποτυγχάνειν φιλοῦντα. - It’s difficult not to love and it’s difficult to love, but most difficult of all is to love in vain. Anacreontea
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Dante's Vision of Rachel and Leah, by English painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1855). Tate Britain.
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I just saw that A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry: An Essential Guide for Reading and Analysis by David Emanuel was just released. https://t.co/P5DVoDCfuI
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I learned recently that the Dutch 'misschien' ('maybe') is an alteration of 'moge het geschieden' ('may it come to pass') - turns out wishful thinking is old as language itself (:
‘Goodbye’ is an alteration of “God be with you.”
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Absolutely, all the time! 😅 There are masterful writers out there - makes one feel small. It's a great blessing to live in a time where books are easy to get by; we partake in a canon and tradition that we have the privilege to learn from and enjoy to our heart's content
you ever read something so beautifully written you lowkey get jealous of the author's writing skills?? like you wish you had a way with words like they do
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There are some new followers!! A very fond welcome If you're interested in poetry, classics, and language, I hope this page will resonate with you ☺️ I try to share a bit about my life as a student of Hebrew, and an Ancient Greek teacher - I look forward to learning about you! (:
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Deeply fascinating!
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I’m rather fond of quirky old fashioned words. Here are some of my favourites: Skedaddle Nincompoop Highfalutin Malarkey Comeuppance Skullduggery Kerfuffle Flummoxed Thingamajig Tomfoolery Shenanigans Hoodwink Blethering Hullabaloo Curmudgeon Whippersnapper Bamboozled
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A little poll, because they're fun! If you could, with immediate effect, speak any language fluently, effortlessly and eloquently, what language do you choose?
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Τὸ μέγιστον μέρος τῶν βιβλίων νυνὶ οὐ δέδεικται, μετοικήσεως ἕνεκα, ἀλλ' οὗτως ἔχει ἡ ἐμοῦ βιβλιοθήκη!! 🤗
@FennaCapelle δεῖξον καὶ ἡμῖν τὴν σὴν βιβλιοθήκην!
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