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Mitzrayim is the Hebrew name for 'Egypt', and its -ayim ending curiously appears to be that of the dual grammatical number, for two things. I remain delighted by the explanation that it is originally dual, referring to the two ancient regions of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Dr Danny Bate

@dannybate.com

There's no Hebrew content in it, but if you'd like to read more about the dual, or just appreciate a punny title with a 90s film reference... dannybate.com/2024/03/27/t...

dannybate.comThe Fates of the DualThe Story of Indo-European’s (Mostly) Lost Number Reading time: 10 minutes Introduction One book, many books. One cat, many cats. One woman, many women. One sheep, many… well, also shee…

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Antti Rasinen

@ars.iki.fi

25 Mar

I use an LLM-based coding assistant and often I want to talk to it about the work he and I did together. I read this article yesterday and today I added support for the tool to understand wit, unk and unker 😅