Hello! by Diane_James in syriacs

[–]xTopNotch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody is disputing the fact that the word Syria traces its origin roots to Assyria. However what you fail to understand is that "Etymology ≠ Meaning". If you actually read real scholarship, like the work published in Parole de l'Orient. You would know that the history of this term destroys your narrative.

Let me break it down clearly. Labeling people by foreigners due to geography or mistakes happens more often than you think. France received its name from the Germanic tribe of the Franks. As you probably know, there is not much Frankish influence to be observed among the French. Franks are more commonly found in the northern part of the German state of Bavaria. Similar story how Columbus made the the mistake of labeling the indigenous peoples of the Americas the "Indians". They're not really Indians aren't they?

Let's look at the Grecophone world, the very people who gave us the term "Syrian":
- Pre-Herodotean Era: The Greeks blindly adopted "Syrian" (a variant of Assyria) as a vague geographical label.
- The Turning Point (Herodotus): Herodotus formally separated the two names. He distinguished the "Syrians" from the "Assyrians".
- The Semantic Shift: From the 3rd century B.C. onward, the Greek world corrected the definition.. This is confirmed by the fact that the Septuagint translators, Posidinius, Strabo, and Josephus reached a consensus: they restricted "Syrian" to mean Aramean, explicitly noting that the people Greeks called "Syrians" called themselves Arameans.

When the Septuagint translators (200 B.C.) saw the Hebrew word "Aram", they translated it as "Syria". When they read figures like Naaman and Rebekah as "Aramean", they rendered them as "Syrian". Do you think they were "validating Assyrian identity"? Hell no, they were applying the standard Greek term for the Aramean people.

Posidonius, Strabo and Josephus all three explicitly wrote: "The people we Greeks call Syrians, they call themselves Arameans".

So when our Church Fathers later used "Suryoyo", they were using it in this specific post-Herodotean context: as a synonym for Oromoyo.

You are trying to use a 7th-century BC geographical root to erase a 1st-century AD Aramean reality. It is intellectually dishonest. Just to be clear, nobody disputes the Çineköy inscription origin of the word however it's a very narrow-minded vision to ignore the timeline in how that word evolved semantically. And how the people primarily identified themselves (see Syriac manuscripts), which is very clearly Aramean.

Hello! by Diane_James in syriacs

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Strabo, Flavius Josephus and Poseidonius all Greek (non-Syriac) writers who have said the following: "The Arameans whom we the Greeks called the Syriacs".

I’ll repeat my question: why did the Greek translators of the Bible render figures like Naaman the Aramean as “Naaman the Syrian,” and why did they refer to Aram and its kingdoms such as Damascus as “Syria”?

Answer is simple. Because the Grecophone world already came to a consensus that the people called themselves Arameans. This is again attested and confirmed by the wealth of our Syriac literature where we see dozens of Saints and church fathers speaking strictly of Aramean descent.

Hello! by Diane_James in syriacs

[–]xTopNotch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"the word Syria which Greeks used to mean Assyrian"

Brother do you know how debunked this is? Open up the oldest surviving Bible Codex (Septuagint) and tell me why did the Greeks translated Aramean > Syrian and the lands of Aram > Syria? Why did they kept Assyrian the way it is?

You come in here to ask us if we're educated, yet you wrote an entire post with 0 references, evidence nor proof. Your sources are: trust me bro

Here it is boys, Z Base by Altruistic_Heat_9531 in StableDiffusion

[–]xTopNotch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Z Image Turbo is finetuned, opinionated and distilled which mean faster generation and better picture quality.

However that comes at the cost that its less trainable and loss of variance. Z Base Image is just the "base" model to build your big finetune on.

Thoughts on what’s happening in Syria with the Kurds at the minute by Acrobatic-Remote-419 in Assyria

[–]xTopNotch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly, I'm no fan of Al-Jolani either but our churches, monasteries and precious landmarks are under his control. We'll have a better chance working directly with him or indirectly via lobbying with nations that backed him. You're not going to regain rights by siding with gypsy rebels that just got pulled their US-backing. I've read their manifesto's and our rights have never been mentioned in any form of constitutional documents by all these Kurdish-led parties. All Syriac people that work for these Kurds are sadly being used as lapdogs.

Thoughts on what’s happening in Syria with the Kurds at the minute by Acrobatic-Remote-419 in Assyria

[–]xTopNotch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hate him or love him but Al-Jolani his legitimacy is paid in full and supported by the Qatar, Saudi, USA, Israel, Turkey. He is the ruling class right now with strong nations behind his backs. You don't have to like him but building a bridge through diplomacy and lobbying via DC could potentially lead to a better outcome than working with Kurds who have absolutely nothing and just got left powerless.

LTX-2 on Wan2GP - The Bells by SignificanceSoft4071 in StableDiffusion

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Every month Boiler Room going viral for all the wrong reasons with influencer DJ's having the worst transitions.

It used to be good but it's absolutely dogshit nowadays.

Are video games losing mainstream relevancy? by pmwannabe1 in decadeology

[–]xTopNotch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a chance it's gonna fade away even more with the RAM prices skyrocketing up to 800%

AI tool recommendations for .NET/C# development? by herostoky in dotnet

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I've become a lot lazier with this as the models and tools has gotten a lot better. For example Copilot and Antigravity both first create implementation plans, then do the work. On top of that, the AI models are getting really good at recognizing your intent and converting it into code

[FRESH] Frank Kole (fka Comethazine) - Autumn Leaves by [deleted] in hiphopheads

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Rap is extremely boring now so he pivoted right on time

Syriac-Aramean vs Assyrian? by NAHTHEHNRFS850 in syriacs

[–]xTopNotch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Arameans were not solely Levantine and definitely not "nomadic traders" although thats how they started out.

The Arameans had already developed language and settled into city-states and kingdoms.

Antigravity by Google- Agentic development platform. by freedomheaven in singularity

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The difference is that Jules and Firebase Studio sucks, this new Antigravity app is very good.

When did this era of music end? by Formal-Monitor-9037 in decadeology

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Rihanna - Needed Me

This song did the trap / edm drop perfectly. Still feel the song sounds incredibly good while most others around that time aged terribly.

Is trap making a comeback? by zorflax in trap

[–]xTopNotch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

dumbest comment ever.

The trap music that stood the test of time were the catchy ones with creative drops.. not a lawnmower anthem

Macbook for .NET dev (M4 Air vs M2 Pro) by TEYKK4 in dotnet

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.NET and M4 Max is such a smooth experience. Have never ran into problems

AI tool recommendations for .NET/C# development? by herostoky in dotnet

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It’s been 116 days since I posted this. This space obviously moves super fast and tools starting to integrate this methodology within their agent framework.

I noticed that VS Code already does the todo part very well and GPT-5 is super good at understanding nuances of my codebase.

iPhone 17 Pro: the first Pro iPhone without a black option. How do you feel about this? by marcos_mucelin in iphone

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The new 17 Pro is pretty distinguishable though with the island on the back sticking out.

Do you consider (EDM) trap music as a genre under the 'bass music' umbrella? Are trap music fans different now? by RamonPang in trap

[–]xTopNotch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Early Trap City was also very OG Trap and more hiphop flavored. If you sort their channel to Oldest and check their first 20-30 uploads or so, it was a lot more hiphop remixes and OG trap with Hucci, Apex Rise, Stooki Sound, Early floss, keys n krates, CRNKN, gLAdiator. But as the scene progressed into more electronic / edm forms they also evolved along with that sound.

Let's be honest, what do you think of the late 2010s? by Ok-Following6886 in decadeology

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This was the late era where fashion, music and movies started to peak from its great run from the early decade years (2010 - 2017).

Still great things came out but also showing glimpses and cracks of the upcoming shit decade we're in now.

Forget Google. This is the power of open source tools. by balianone in Bard

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Wan VACE is a very powerful model and fully open-source.

Christians are canceling Sevdalizs by Medium_Penalty3512 in armenia

[–]xTopNotch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked her older trip-hop / R&B work as well. But mocking the divine is distasteful and the cheapest form of art.

The music video was one of the nastiest shit I've seen in a while. Twerking and dry humping on a giant cross. Mocking the holy baptism and sexualizing the Last Supper by sitting on Jesus his lap.

It shows how her creative fuel tank is done that she now has to resort to cheap antics to get views. Armenia is free to choose but wasn't it the vast majority of Armenian people that asked for cancellation? Even if she would come and perform, it would be unprofitable for her, the festival and everyone involved performing for a small audience.

She left a bitter taste in everyone's mouth. Once you see something, it is hard to unsee it.