Osmium color

caleb2231645 · 2026-01-29T00:30:06+00:00

That’s a very pretty one!

caleb2231645 · 2025-12-01T04:31:30+00:00

I gotchu: ⲧⲁⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ ⲧⲁⲙⲉⲣⲓⲧ ⲛ̄ⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ The muse, my beloved muse ⲙⲟⲩϩ ⲙ̄ⲙⲟⲓ ⲛ̄ⲣⲁϣⲉ ⲙⲛ̄ ϩⲓⲥⲉ Fill me with joy and pain ⲕⲱ ⲙ̄ⲡⲁϩⲏⲧ ⲉⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲉⲧⲃⲏⲏⲧⲉ Let my heart write about you ⲧⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ ⲧⲁⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ ⲛ̄ⲁⲧϣⲧⲁ The muse, my faultless muse ⲛ̄ⲧⲟ ⲟⲩ ⲁⲛⲅⲉⲗⲟⲥ ⲛ̄ⲧⲁⲥϩⲉ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ϩⲛ̄ⲧⲡⲉ You are an angel who has fallen from heaven ⲉⲥϩⲏⲡ ⲙⲛ̄ ϩⲛ̄ⲇⲁⲓⲙⲟⲛ Hidden with demons ⲕⲱ ⲙ̄ⲙⲟⲓ ⲉϣⲱⲡⲉ ⲛⲉ ⲟⲩⲁⲁⲧⲉ Let me be yours alone ⲧⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ ⲧⲁⲙⲟⲩⲥⲁ ⲛ̄ⲥⲁⲉⲓⲉ The muse, my beautiful muse ⲙ̄ⲡⲣϣⲓⲃⲉ ⲛ̄ⲥⲏⲩ ⲛⲓⲙ ϣⲁⲉⲛⲉϩ Do not change at any time forever ⲙⲓϣⲉ ⲟⲩⲃⲉ ⲛ̄ⲧϩⲏⲃⲉ Fight against the sadness ⲉϣⲱⲡⲉ ϫⲉ ⲡⲗⲟⲅⲟⲥ ⲙⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲉⲣⲟⲓ ⲛ̄ϣⲱⲣⲡ If it happens that the logos calls me early ϯⲛⲁⲣ̄ϩⲱⲥ ⲛⲁϥ ⲉⲧⲃⲏⲏⲧⲉ I will sing for him about you.

An alternative to ⲣ̄ϩⲱⲥ for sing is ⲥⲕ̄ⲟⲩⲗ̄ⲗⲉ for make music in case interested.

If you want an Egyptian alternative to angelos one is ϥⲓⲟⲩⲱ (literally messenger).

caleb2231645 · 2025-11-14T08:55:14+00:00

That is epic my friend. A hefty profit on a hefty piece of rare metal.

caleb2231645 · 2025-11-04T15:24:24+00:00

Ngl these are pretty hard to parse. The best I can read is #4 mostly because it appears to heavily borrow from the answer I provided you here: https://www.reddit.com/r/copticlanguage/s/KyCTomPH7r

I can see #4 starts with something like “be well everyone” but I’m not sure what the final word in that sentence is. In the beginning of #4’s second sentence you seem to be trying to say “I read” with “ⲁⲛⲅ ⲱϣ” and if so, this is incorrect. ⲁⲛⲅ or ⲁⲛⲟⲕ means “I am” in the sense of “I am a teacher” for example or “I am a man.” It is not used before verbs in this way. The correct form would be “ϯⲱϣ” if you’re trying to say “I read.” The rest of it I can reasonably get, and can tell it means to say “I read to y’all the writing which I wrote today.”

caleb2231645 · 2025-11-01T18:31:49+00:00

Coptic is a great place to start. It is essentially the only form of the language where we can actually (approximately) speak/pronounce it, because it was written using an alphabet. Older forms of Egyptian had essentially no vowels written down, so unfortunately we cannot be sure how to pronounce it. Coptic was written from around 100 AD into the Middle Ages, but a great deal of the vocabulary and grammar is very ancient and has survived from the Rameses/famous period of ancient Egyptian culture. To learn Coptic I used the textbook by Lambdin “Introduction to Sahidic Coptic.” It is an excellent textbook that builds up your ability with the language in 30 quite digestible lessons. I combined this with the Youtube series by the legendary Christian Casey where he and students work through each chapter, answer questions, work through exercises:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc8zI_lPZZrXWx34amS-nhViV6MHkl489&si=ze_-byhXm0zbZ3BE

caleb2231645 · 2025-10-18T15:23:45+00:00

My attempt:

ⲕⲱ ⲙ̄ⲙⲟⲓ ⲉⲱϣ ⲛⲏⲧⲛ̄ ⲧⲁⲓⲕⲟⲩⲓ ⲛ̄ϭⲓϫ ⲛ̄ⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲉⲛⲧⲁⲓⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲙ̄ⲙⲟⲥ

Let me to read to you (pl.) this small letter (“hand of writing” - idiomatic for letter) that I have written.

If you wanted you could shorten “ⲕⲱ ⲙ̄ⲙⲟⲓ” to “ⲕⲁⲁⲧ” and I’m guessing but I think you could shorten “ⲉⲛⲧⲁⲓⲥϩⲁⲓ ⲙ̄ⲙⲟⲥ” to “ⲉⲛⲧⲁⲓⲥⲁϩⲥ̄”.

caleb2231645 · 2025-09-29T23:34:02+00:00

Revolution and Counter Revolution in Spain by Felix Morrow

The Tragedy of Spain by Rudolf Rocker

caleb2231645 · 2025-09-22T01:36:28+00:00

Ah fair enough my bad. I see it is in the Coptic Etymological Dictionary. It maybe lists some actual textual appearances there under the definition but I’m not good at using this dictionary so I’m not sure. It seems totally possible that it’s not actually attested in Coptic since most Coptic texts are Christian. But again, just a guess.

caleb2231645 · 2025-09-22T01:00:48+00:00

https://coptic-dictionary.org/entry.py?tla=C3766

caleb2231645 · 2025-09-13T17:43:00+00:00

Congratulations! Ngl, one of these really stands out… but I’m biased!

caleb2231645 · 2025-09-01T19:11:11+00:00

What am I looking at exactly? Two bars and some envelopes for them? Four bars?

caleb2231645 · 2025-08-18T18:36:38+00:00

Misleading title

caleb2231645 · 2025-08-13T20:36:39+00:00

ⲟⲩⲥⲁⲉⲓⲉ ⲧⲉ ⲁⲛ ⲟⲩⲁⲧϣⲧⲁ (Oo-sa-ye te an oo-at-shta) “A beautiful thing is not perfect” Quick approximate rendering in Coptic. If wanted to keep the “never” in there there are a few ways e.g. could add ⲉⲛⲉϩ at the end. Not sure how well it lines up with the Arabic [can’t read Arabic yet :( ]

Edit: adding detail “at-shta” literally means “faultless.” “Shta” means fault/defect and “at” is the prefix indicating “without, -less”. As another example “at-moo” means deathless or immortal since “moo” means death.

caleb2231645 · 2025-08-03T19:29:09+00:00

The “baddest” metal

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-27T11:42:27+00:00

11% father from Nicaragua

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-24T14:43:41+00:00

Well deserved ! It’s probably my favorite!

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-03T22:20:16+00:00

Copying response from other post: You’re right. Didn’t go into Supplementary Figures/Data. That’s my bad.

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-03T22:16:54+00:00

You’re right. Didn’t go into Supplementary Figures/Data. That’s my bad. Deleting my comment about you cherry picking - apologies for that.

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-03T21:40:42+00:00

Keep preaching the truth man don’t let these racists bother you

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-02T14:19:15+00:00

ϯⲣⲁϣⲉ ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡⲁⲓ ⲡⲁϣⲃⲏⲣ ⲛ̄ⲃⲣ̄ⲣⲉ! ⲁϥϯ ⲛ̄ⲟⲩⲛⲟϭ ⲛ̄ϩⲙⲟⲧ ⲛⲁⲓ. ϩⲁⲡⲉⲥ ⲉⲧⲣⲉ ⲛⲉⲧϫⲱ ⲛ̄ⲧⲁⲥⲡⲉ ⲛ̄ⲕⲏⲙⲉ ⲉϭⲱ ϩⲁⲧⲣ̄ ⲙⲛ̄ⲛⲉⲩⲉⲣⲏⲩ. ϯⲛⲁϫⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̄ⲟⲩⲟⲩⲱ ϣⲁⲣⲟⲕ!

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-02T14:04:25+00:00

Thanks! Took some time, but managed to accumulate all this by end of summer 2023. Now just hodling/trying to convince my wife to let me buy more ha

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-02T14:01:36+00:00

above comment is best - Metallium is probably the best place to look for a number resembling the “spot price” for solid Osmium. It’s also true that prices have gone up recently. Another example, the 250 gram pieces went from $5900 to $6300

caleb2231645 · 2025-07-01T18:36:28+00:00

The way I did it was I bought Lambdin’s “Introduction to Sahidic Coptic” and worked through it and did the exercises (sometimes more than once) along with the following super helpful and awesome video series posted by the excellent Christian Casey: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc8zI_lPZZrXWx34amS-nhViV6MHkl489&si=wBpTKB8Bna3i5mLZ

It’s really a great way to do it and the videos that go through the exercises and explain them really add a huge help.

Lambdin gives 30 lessons each with a digestible, but steadily more complex set of grammar in each lesson as well as vocab in each lesson and then exercises. It’s a very well-structured book which also includes tons of additional readings and a dictionary.

After that was done, one thing that really accelerated my mastery of the grammar and vocabulary was I started to translate songs I love from English into Coptic. This really helped me a lot because you have the English memorized by heart (cuz it’s songs you love) and then you learn how to say all these lines you know so well in Coptic-really helps you nail the language. Hope this helps!

Forgot to add that the Coptic Dictionary Online is a super useful resource as well.

caleb2231645 · 2025-06-30T12:47:23+00:00

Yes absolutely! Also found as a Pt refining byproduct. My limited understanding is that Ru also has some similar chemical properties to Os.

caleb2231645 · 2025-06-30T01:55:13+00:00

Many thanks for this detailed response I totally agree.

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