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A Place of Brightness: Learning Latin with Pope Francis - February 3, 2015
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Learning Latin with Pope Francis - February 3, 2015. To visit my archive of Latin Papal Tweets, go to my main page. February 3, 2015. I'm very disappointed to report that this contains a clear typo in the Latin. The gerund form should be convertendum, not convertedum. Literal translation of the Latin: We are all sinners. There is no one who is not called to conversion in his whole heart. My wife and...
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A Place of Brightness: King David -- The Original Guitar Hero
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Sunday, October 11, 2009. King David - The Original Guitar Hero. By Keith Massey, Ph D. Connect with me on Google. Explore my n ovels. There's a word in the Hebrew Bible, selah. For which commentators have proposed multiple interpretations. That's usually a sign that no one really knows what it means. As part of the "Sea Peoples" phenomenon of the 2nd Millenium BCE. (For a full study of Philistine language, see the Wikiped...
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A Place of Brightness: A Latin Origin for the Romanian Word DA (YES)
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Sunday, January 1, 2012. A Latin Origin for the Romanian Word DA (YES). By Keith Massey, Ph D. Connect with me on Google. Explore my n ovels. A few years ago I published an academic article in which I demonstrated a possible Latin origin for the assumed Slavic borrowing into Romanian of DA (YES). To read the original article, click here. To see the argument in a nutshell in a more accessible video form, enjoy the following:.
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A Place of Brightness: Getting Back to Proto-Human
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Monday, January 16, 2012. Getting Back to Proto-Human. It's been an exciting last couple years for people, like myself, who are deeply interested in paleolinguistics. I've already blogged about. Research that demonstrates that all languages are or once were of the basic structure Subject-Object-Verb. Suggesting a common ancestor to all. Fire, eagle, and dead. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My wife and I live in New Jersey...
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A Place of Brightness: That's What She Said: Evidence for a Female Origin of Human Language
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Thursday, July 4, 2013. That's What She Said: Evidence for a Female Origin of Human Language. Travel back in time to Ancient Rome. In Saecula Saeculorum. Sword fights. Chases on horseback. Adventure. Love. Loss. Latin. I'm not the first to suggest this idea. The book The Invisible Sex. Adovasio, Page, and Soffer, 2009) asserts that women were the silent sources of much of human culture in the prehistoric period, including lang...
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A Place of Brightness: The Lost Last Words of Julius Caesar
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Saturday, March 14, 2015. The Lost Last Words of Julius Caesar. What were Julius Caesar’s actual last words when he was being assassinated? In this article, I will propose that we can recover them. They were heard, but they have been misunderstood for over 2000 years. Meaning “You also Brutus? 8221; But this Latin phrase was only popularized centuries later by William Shakespeare ( Julius Caesar. 8221; ( Divus Iulius. There we...
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A Place of Brightness: Made in Wisconsin: The 2014-2015 Wisconsin Badgers Men's Basketball Team
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Monday, April 6, 2015. Made in Wisconsin: The 2014-2015 Wisconsin Badgers Men's Basketball Team. As I write this, Wisconsinites await something that has not happened since 1941- the Badger Men's Basketball team plays tonight in the National Championship Game. I'm proud to have been born and raised in Madison, WI. I'm proud to be a three degree alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bo Ryan may not have been born in Wi...
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A Place of Brightness: The Journey of Otelius Grønli
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Saturday, May 2, 2015. The Journey of Otelius Grønli. Back in 2005, I was at Ellis Island with my late mother, her sister, and my wife. We were attempting to use the data base there to find information on my great-grandfather Otelius Grønli's. Transit through that location. And we were frustrated that there seemed to be no entries related to his name. First off, a Norwegian database documents his departure. Migrants who arrive...
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Meet Keith Massey
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My wife and I live in New Jersey, where we are both teachers; I teach Latin, she. We summer in her native Romania, where the people, terrain, and history inspired. Me to write my novel series, which follows the adventures of a Romanian-American. Spy named Andrew Valquist. I also draw upon my own unexpected experience with the world of espionage. After 9/11 I spent four years as an Arabic linguist with the National Security. Agency.I go into detail on my life story in my book,. Top Secrets: Lessons for.
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A Place of Brightness: BOSCH - Must See TV That's Not On TV
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The official blog of fiction and non-fiction author and musician Keith Massey. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. BOSCH - Must See TV That's Not On TV. As Amazon Prime Subscribers, this weekend we binge watched the new Amazon series Bosch (pronounced with the same vowel as in "gosh"). It's based on the best selling police action-drama novels by Michael Connelly. And since Mr. Connelly is a producing and writing credit for the Amazon series, we may assume he approves of this version of his character. If Jason Ge...
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