phil_lol_ogist

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Asst Prof (Old English & Ling) @ UCF. Book on hell & apocrypha. Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar. He/his
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The NEH isn't even on the mammoth-site 🥹
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Brandon W. HawkDec 7, 2022

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"Goblin Mode" from the Latin 'modus Gobelini': 'the manner of a Goblin', first attested in Cicero's letters where he predicts "Cras me in istum [Catilinam] coram Senatu modo Gobelini geram' (Tomorrow before the Senate, I shall go Goblin mode on his (Catilina's) ass).

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“"Goblin Mode" from the Latin 'modus Gobelini': 'the manner of a Goblin', first attested in Cicero's letters where he predicts "Cras me in istum [Catilinam] coram Senatu modo Gobelini geram' (Tomorrow before the Senate, I shall go Goblin mode on his (Catilina's) ass).”

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phil_lol_ogistDec 7, 2022

as one door closes, another opens.

as one door closes, another opens.

as one door closes, another opens.

as one door closes, another opens."

--me, working my way through the Advent Chocolate Calendar, religiously

phil_lol_ogistDec 7, 2022
You could never make the Iliad today. We're too steeped in literacy and secondary orality to pull it off.