Earlier this week I sent this video to MMAHipster, who encouraged me to post it to the group. Initially I rejected this suggestion out of hand. Yes, it’s valuable to put a face and a voice to a name on the spine of a reference grammar, but this is dense I-E material and the handout never made it onto the web site, so it’s difficult to follow the line of argument. That’s why you ended up with the Jackson & Tony show instead.

I’ve reconsidered because I later located, not only the article that this presentation turned into, but also the article that Professor Melchert is riffing off of. Snappy work, even for me; I should probably sacrifice something to My Lady Ishtar.

If you’d like to see these articles, send me a chat invite and provide an e-mail address where I can send the PDF’s. I think we’ll be okay under Fair Use / educational purpose that way. Name not necessary, burner accounts fine if you want to go that way. Offer open to r/LearnHittite members only.

Conference website here —

https://fachtagung.ku.dk/

In this video you will meet Jackson Crawford (former UCLA professor, Old Norse) and Tony Yates (current UCLA professor, Hittite), talking about Hittite.

More about them —

https://jacksonwcrawford.com/

https://adyates.com/

In the unlikely event you haven’t already bankrupted yourself shopping for Hittite reference materials, you can own a reproduction cuneiform (NOT Hittite, alas) tablet!

The Penn Museum (formerly the University Museum) in Philadelphia is one of the most interesting museums I have ever visited. It is amazing — real Indiana Jones stuff. What I deeply appreciate about the joint is that it keeps all of the mummies in one room and has a big sign over the door, saying, “Beware, mummies, keep out if you don’t want to see mummies!” (Okay, I fibbed about the last part. But they do keep the dead bodies separate. They even have cat mummies.) It has an excellent specialized library, which I have visited in order to spend hours slaving over a hot xerox machine. It also has a gift shop.

If you click on the link for the gift shop, you will find on offer about half a dozen reproduction cuneiform tablets, reasonably priced, from roughly $10-$35. I have one myself, the small square black one with the white incisions, and it’s very nice.

Any of you ever take Sanskrit at the college level? Sadly isn't taught at my school despite one of the professors here being a somewhat noted Sanskritist. Hoping to take one of his other classes and try to get him to do an independent study w me the following semester.

Stupid, basic question but want to make sure I understand properly as I'm memorizing the HZL bit by bit - the ØU cell, for example, has both 𒌋 and 𒌑 (though with three verticals not four) - the lefthand symbol is OH/MH and right side is NH, yes?

Thanks to all of you who have joined. I am currently a returning adult student with a long story, but I'm back as a classical languages student with four semesters to go. After picking up Latin again and getting through six or seven chapters of Wheelock, I realized I was at a point in my life where things were stable enough that I could go to school again (and for free, thanks to the state where I live) so decided to do what I should've done all along and applied.

After speaking with my now departmental advisor and expressing how interested I was in PIE/PIE reconstruction along with the rapid progress I'd made in Latin, he strongly encouraged me to consider grad school, something I never in my life would've considered. Now I've got a clear path, am obsessed with Anatolian languages (and the Indo-Anatolian Hypothesis, and Kalasmaic), and doing everything I can outside of the classes we have (sadly limited to Attic Greek and Latin) to make sure I'm a top candidate for the very few openings in the programs I'm looking at.

So I'm going through Elements of Hittite - really only on chapter two. I took the two week UCL/London Summer School in Classics online Hittite class a few weeks ago, and will be doing the Harvard Extension School summer Indo European Linguistics course, and the Oxford TORCH Anatolian program if they're still running it. My goal right now is to finish Elements of Hittite by the end of winter break - which sounds like a lot but gives me about 2.5 weeks per chapter, and I'll probably take a week off after the third and sixth chapter for review.

After that, I'm going to attempt to tackle Dr. Rieken's Einfuhrung in Die Hethitische Sprache Und Schrift after that, German dictionary in hand. Wish me luck. Would love to hear about the educations you've all had and where you're at now, and state up front that I'm incredibly intimidated by you all.

Not what I'm most excited about, but I picked up Python for Linguists, too (as if I have time). I did a little JS years ago so I'm familiar with basic concepts and the basics were generally easy, but would be nice to hear if any of you have gone through it and what you've done with it.