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Sigma‭

Atlanta accountant, CPA in progress. Things I'm interested in: everything.

Current active hobbies: koine, HEMA (Meyer tradition), programming (specifically database architecture & management), table-top rpg's (WoD, 3.5/pf).

Things I want to learn (more) about eventually: German, more programming, bicycling, cooking, carpentry, amateur radio (currently general class but no longer active).

What I want to be when I grow up: an engineer.

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Q&A Is it really true that all Chinese words have one syllable?

Mandarin is represented in characters. Each character is a single syllable. A guide can be found here showing the pronunciations as romanized in Pinyin (alternative romanization patterns exist but ...

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Resources Historical Greek Educational Resources

Please post resources below for learning or studying Historical Greek. At the moment this will be a catch-all post; eventually some categories may spin off into their own resource lists. Reading &...

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Q&A How do linguists determine historical pronunciation?

There were two recent questions (here and here) about historical pronunications. I know that languages evolve in sound over time, but how do linguists determine what the original phonology was seve...

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Meta Is posting links to commercial content as part of a resource post allowed?

I'm currently working on the Ancient Greek resources page. There are several textbooks I've used and found useful, as well as various other resources that are not open source. What should our polic...

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Meta How should we customize the Resources category?

Should we also change the default license? If we eventually end up with some kind of community user for maintenance purposes as suggested here we might want to suggest a more open license.

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Meta How should we customize the Resources category?

Description: A community wiki for language enthusiasts. Help text: Provide a short description of each resource you post Add a language tag to your post (where appropriate) If you are listing m...

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