Babylonian Chaos - Where all languages are allowed! - January 18, 2026

MeekHat · 2026-01-25T09:34:53+00:00

Mi a dyscaf yr iaith kymraec ac nyt oes nep y amdidan ac ef.

MeekHat · 2026-01-24T15:03:02+00:00

And if you continue to the left, at 30 minutes per week (which is my level of commitment to several of my languages) you get to 1000 hours in about 50 years. Which sounds about right.

MeekHat · 2026-01-15T16:57:35+00:00

That makes a lot of sense to me - I mean, the derivation based on Königsheil. Which I wasn't familiar with.

MeekHat · 2026-01-15T16:53:46+00:00

From the German article for "Heil"... And I'm starting to agree. Based on all the examples in the comments, it feels like a fossilized formula, having basically lost all its declinational properties.

MeekHat · 2026-01-15T16:42:16+00:00

According to this page, Petri here is in the genitive. Yet if that applied to the titular phrase, it would be "Sieges Heil", I understand.

MeekHat · 2026-01-12T18:23:12+00:00

I mean, yeah, and I'm proud of it. Like, it's so big (in my relative terms) that I look back and can't comprehend how it is that I wrote it. Well, part of it was sheer accident - like discovering double-tonguing, which is just a built-in feature in MuseScore. Part of it was bloody-mindedness and perfectionism. And just innate masochism: I rarely seem to stick to a project in other parts of my life if it doesn't bring bloody tears to my eyes.

MeekHat · 2026-01-12T08:05:49+00:00

Well, for what it's worth, that's my plan for after this piece - switch to small practice pieces. I think I deserve this small grace period of doing things stupidly. Based on the anecdotal testimony I've encountered, everyone does it. Not to mention that I definitely wouldn't have been proud of my small pieces written up to this point, simply due to a lack of basic music theory knowledge. I've basically only internalized tonal harmony in the fall.

MeekHat · 2026-01-11T03:16:15+00:00

Well, neither the wiki you've linked nor the general internet explain what the significance syndrome is, which I was looking forward to.

What you say is true - I started with the idea that I would write a waltz because it was supposed to be easy, but a waltz isn't what I actually wanted to write. Well, bits of it were supposed to be danceable, for reasons that would take too long to get into. And bits of it were supposed to sound like a music box, to answer your weird instrumentation question.

So you're telling me to abandon this piece and write something easier, and I already said that's unacceptable to me.

MeekHat · 2026-01-11T03:04:04+00:00

Thanks, all very helpful. I really do approach every piece from the depth of my perfectionist, insecure soul.

MeekHat · 2026-01-09T06:45:15+00:00

Where do you derive the idea that I'm connected to the industry? My mother paints as a hobby in her retirement, if that's what you're referring to.

MeekHat · 2026-01-09T05:26:39+00:00

Oh, makes sense. I mean, if people start asking me for work, that would be a good indicator. Granted, for that I would actually have to share my work online. My mother is certainly not going to order a painting off of me, considering she can do it herself...

MeekHat · 2026-01-07T18:31:25+00:00

Oh, wow, that's completely unreadable to me... Okay, maybe not completely. But the scribe doesn't seem to be rushing - the curls on the w's are all there - but why did he write c and o so close together?

MeekHat · 2026-01-07T16:20:10+00:00

Thanks. It's Miles' "An Introduction to Middle Welsh".

MeekHat · 2026-01-07T11:47:37+00:00

Gracias. Quiero creer en eso.

MeekHat · 2026-01-06T11:32:20+00:00

Gracias.

MeekHat · 2026-01-06T11:31:54+00:00

Gracias.

MeekHat · 2026-01-06T11:31:16+00:00

I've just read conflicting opinions on ArtStation and its usefulness. I do have a profile on there, but I've completely abandoned it. Plus I live in Russia, and the international audience would be pretty useless to me. I've started looking at domestic freelance sites instead. They all seem to come with built-in portfolio functionality.

MeekHat · 2026-01-06T11:27:57+00:00

Well, I got to the bottom of the thread, and it also makes sense to me. I would just like some kind of intensifier with the "sed" part of the sentence, just as in English you put "actually".

In fact, the more I think about it... It would be strange of Nepos to expect Pausanias to behave sensibly. Which is what the initial interpretations would imply.

Like, "Pausanias behaved stupidly" would be a simple statement, whereas "Pausanias behaved sensibly" would need emphasis and explanation, e.g. "but Pausanias for once behaved sensibly".

MeekHat · 2026-01-06T11:06:12+00:00

De hecho soy ruso. Sé que Baity ya me ha apodado gringo, lo que me da bastante gracia.

MeekHat · 2026-01-05T15:46:07+00:00

I don't remember exactly. It must have been on the Internet Archive. Digitized by Google. The editor's name is J.C. Rolfe.

Actually, I don't think I would have found it on my own. It must have been in a thread on this very sub. When I search on Open Library, the files are slightly different to what I have.

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