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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- the cognate accusative

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Book I section 51. This is a good section for going over all the conjugated verbs; id the aspect, flavor, person, number and gender to test ...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Knitting -- holds and techniques that reduce tendonitis

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I found a video on how to purl Fair Isle when you are working on the flat and my fingers hurt just looking at how the demonstrator was holdi...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- some more idioms

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Book I section 50. I was going to do several sections in one post but then I found a number of things I thought you ought to know about. τ...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Knitting -- Men Who Knit: Arne and Carlos

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Arne and Carlos have a Youtube blog, mostly about Norwegian traditions, a lot of which have to do with knitting. They discuss brioche, but t...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- an Anatolian remnant?

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Book I sections 47-49.These sections have some vocabulary you’ll need for the rest of the work.   In these sections the war between the Kori...
Sunday, October 9, 2022

Knitting -- the Double Knit three times

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In old books I saw references to double-knitting but no explanation of how to do it. After some research, it turns out there are three versi...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- me fussing at Jowett again

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Book I section 46.   αἱ μὲν δὴ νῆες ἀφικνοῦνται ἐς τὴν Κέρκυραν , οἱ δὲ Κορίνθιοι, ἐπειδὴ αὐτοῖς παρεσκεύαστο, ἔπλεον ἐπὶ τὴν Κέρκυραν ναυ...