New blog post! At the intersection of language and... abstract math aaronson.org/blog/square-th…

The etymologist's pride and joy (and, without sufficient caution, pitfall): "oh, it is still there, just with semantic change!"

it was inevitable that a faculty which thinks of itself as '"professor" (derogatory)', would end up teaching '"courses" (cancelled)' in a '"faculty" (fired)'. how else could this *possibly* have gone?

Phonological Drift and Language Contact by Pavel Iosad Using advances in linguistic theory this book explains multiple unusual sound patterns that occur in different languages of northern Europe. 📚 cup.org/4kZibmQ

Work slow lately, but here's a new blog post at least protouralic.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/no-…

Also today in 394, the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known ancient enscription written using hieroglyphics, was carved in the temple of Philae in southern Egypt