Arabs, Romans, and Persians, oh my!
Some 2k years ago an Arab commander named Wahballāh son of Ẓann-ʾEl led a troop with an Arab soldier called "Scorpion," a Roman called "Big Mark," and Persian called "held by Ahura Mazda." Here are their inscriptions in #Greek and #Safaitic
I am hearing that on his death bed James C Scott received the light of top-down bureaucratic legibility and renounced mētis. Even now he looks down on society with total synoptic knowledge. Truly is there no order outside of the plan and Walther Rathenau is its prophet!
smēagelegen, f.n: a syllogism, a type of logical reasoning where the conclusion is gotten from two linked premises (example: an apple is a fruit; all fruit is good; therefore apples are good). (SMAY-ah-yeh-LEH-yen / ˈsmeːa-jɛ-ˌlɛ-jɛn) #OldEnglish#WOTD
Weekly Georgian Etymology: აღდგომა ağdgoma 'stand up, resurrect, Easter', from Old Georgian ႠႶႣႢႭႫႠ ağdgoma, from ağ- up, dg- stand, -om nominalizer, and -a masdar noun suffix. A calque of Greek ἀνάστασις, the dg- root meant 'put upright, fix firmly' in Proto-Kartvelian.
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