I just kind of assumed that Medieval European discourse on sexuality would be fairly similar to the ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Middle Eastern texts I am familiar with which had defined and medicalized female homosexuality as a quantifiable occurrence although it might be problematic to speak of pre-modern orientations as such.

Obviously the ancient Romans and Medieval Islamic scholars were not the most enlightened authors but they had a firm concept of what might now be labelled "lesbianism" which they attempted to explain. I only have a basic understanding of Medieval European anything so the bit about languages caught me slightly off guard, if only because of the Medieval familiarity with ancient Roman medical authors like Galen.

The plane of Arborea serves as the Olympus of this world, how do you think would the culture adapt and evolve? How would magic be seen after being utilized in the past mostly by evil or morally ambigious female entities? How would you DM this type of world? What would you desire to play as a Player?

Edit: Am a bit dissapointed by the lack of creativity in the discussion, merely pointing towards Theros who is very loosely inspired by greek mythology while completely scrapping the gods, mythological heroes and various forms of customs. But I understand it's easier to point to an existing setting than to think about the topic. I would still enjoy DM and player takes on what they'd do in this type of setting.

Any resources (books, online websites... etc) would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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Medieval people were just so stupid

Would this have reduced tensions with the Orthodox Church? Promoted learning following the fall of the Western Empire?

Or would it have created a larger disconnect between the clergy and Romance-speaking populations?

I believe before scholasticism, Plato was paid the most attention, so his comments on the vanality of physical same sex intercourse might have been highlighted. Also, were there significant differences between Christians and Muslims on the issue?

I'm decided to learn greek, and I am thought maybe I can find someone from Greece who can be my friend and teach me language.

I'm from Croatia 16 male I like sport, movies, series, music. I would like meet someone about my age. I already use duolingo, discord, YT...

I already know to read greek alphabet, not very well I also know Cyrillic so it was not really hard to learn greek alphabet.

ευχαριστώ and καλά Χριστούγεννα everyone who celebrate

(Idk which flair to put so I put education)

I was looking through a Wikipedia page of English-used Greek and Latin roots, and then I had an idea to make this conlang using such Greek and Latin loanwords (and a few non-Latin/Greek international words (like computer, ananas, deja vu, etc...)

Greek Transliteration

For these words to work, I needed to transliterate Greek words into the Latin Alphabet:

Consonants

• ⟨r⟩ can be any rhotic sound (I do the alveolar tap [ɾ])
• the nasals & the lateral assimilate to the place of articulation of the adjacent consonant
• for people that the sounds /x θ/ ae difficult to pronounce, they can use /k t/ instead

Vowels

Plural Nouns

for nouns that end in a vowel:

plural = (noun) + -s

EX. cano "dog" > canos "dogs"

for nouns ending in a consonant:

plural = (noun) + -es

EX. ananas "pineapple" > ananases "pineapple"

Prepositions

Rather than noun declensions, Terra has prepositions, like these:

• apo /ˈapo/ "from"
• en /en/ "in, on"
• per /per/ "for"
• de /de/ "of"
• a /a/ "at, by"
• con /kon/ "with"

Articles

DEFINITE: la /la/ "the" | las /las/ "the (PLU.)

INDEFINITE: mono /ˈmo.no/ "a/an/one"

Verbs

All verb infinitives end in -er.

Verbs only inflect for tense, not number or person.

The verb "to sing"

The verb "to be"

|Infinitive|Past|Imperfective|

What did they do since they couldn’t just take a pill like Xanax or antidepressants.

So on the Wikipedia article about the Brahui language, it provides no suggestion to the how likely one theory is to another. Which theory do modern historians and linguists generally agree more on? Personally as of writing this post I think the recent medieval migration would be more plausible. Mentions of non-Aryan peoples still in northern India is quite lacking in classical sources, which leads me to believe that the Dravidian languages were utterly wiped out in the north after the Aryan migration and only in the Medieval ages did small Dravidian tribes migrate north to eventually form the North Dravidian languages.

Did the /f/ pronunciation come as an influence from medieval Greek? Because at the time of the words’ borrowing into Latin, “ph” was still pronounced as /pʰ/ in Greek.

If Greek loanwords’ “ph” in Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages become /f/, then why don’t languages that have /θ x/ in their inventories pronounce their Greek loans with “th” & “ch” as /θ/ & /x/?

For example in European Spanish which has both /θ x/, why is the word for choreography pronounced /koreografia/ and not /xoreografia/? And why don’t they pronounce their word for theater as /θeatro/, but instead pronounce and spell it as /teatro/?

Greeks are truly lucky that the Romans didn't try to replace Greek with Latin (alphabet or language), whereas Ottomans didn't replace Greek with Turkish language or their Perso-Arabic script.

same thing seems to be true about Chinese: i recently found that these two peoples start appearing in written records at around the same time:

• Greeks start writing around 1400 BC, or so

• Chinese start writing around 1250 BC or so; however, whereas Greeks borrowed a modified Mesopotamian Cuneiform, the Chinese invented their own.

• first Greek literature is of course the Homeric epics which originate sometime around early Iron age, but wasn't put into writing until like 700s to i think 500s BC.

• similarly, first Chinese literature is also around the same time (1100s to 700s BC) but unlike the Greeks, it was put into writing immediately

so this means, Greeks have kept their language family for 3400 years & script for 2700 years, and Chinese have kept theirs for 3100 years or so. At least according to written historical evidence.

now contrast this with:

• Turks

• Persians

• Koreans

• Central Asian Turkic peoples

• Egyptians, who switched scripts twice (first into Greek alphabets, then to Arabic) and also totally lost their language (replaced with Arabic)

this means that these people cannot read what their ancestor wrote before the script switch, all those years ago.

the situation is especially dire for Turks and Koreans: their script switch is super recent, which means the average literate Turk/Korean cannot read 90+% of their country's literature in history.

So fascinating to see how lucky the Greeks & Chinese are!

(disclaimer: i am neither)

Hello! I am looking for Greek language partners to practice spoke Greek with. I have a tutor but I can only do a lesson once every two weeks because i need to save money. I am interested in finding someone friendly (any gender, any age) with whom I can practice conversational Greek with on a regular basis.

As for a conversation starter I am interested in Greek culture and music. I also like crocheting, rock climbing, horse riding, figure skating, astronomy, anime and cooking. My favorite artists are demy, kings, vegas, stavento, and ivi adamou. I also like eating souvlaki and gyros. I also like greek mythology!

Hey everyone!

I've got a question for you. I've been listening to Christodoulos Halaris' reconstructed music for at least 5 years now, I can't get enough of it!

My favourite song is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6owKcm1eqcI

My question is about the lyrics. It should be straight from a scroll or book found in a monastery. Do you, as modern Greeks, understand the words in the text? Could you point my to a translation on English somewhere?

My guess is that you would understand a bit - but not everything? Kind of like what old church Slavonic is understood in my country.

Thanks in advance for all the info!

I just got the game, actually wanted to play since it came out but only got to it now, I ran the game reached first cut scene which I had to skip because hearing them speak English was too weird and didn't fit at all and I couldn't get to audio menu during a cut scene.

To my surprise, no Greek audio was available, searched the web and could only find old results, tried playing again but nah it's too weird so I closed the game.

Is there anything that I missed here or did Ubi really not make any Greek audio for this game?

Looks like my so awaited experience with Odyssey will have been 4s of a cut scene and a disappointment in audio menu...

There has been a trend of naming newly discovered fossilized species in the language of the people's inhabiting the area in which the species was discovered rather than a Greco-Roman name.

Examples: Voay Razanandrongobe Tapejara Dilong Zanabazar Shuvuuia Siats Waimanu Yiqi

However species discovered in Europe aren't given names in the local languages. The only exceptions are Balaur Bondoc and Pendraige.

I think there's a missed opportunity there. An archosaur with a Polish, German, Russian, or even old English name would be awesome. Instead of megalosaurus we would have bigcwide aþexe Or baryonix would be deor clawu.

The full quote:

> When we realize that an educated Japanese can hardly frame a single literary sentence without the use of Chinese resources, that to this day Siamese and Burmese and Cambodgian bear the unmistakable imprint of the Sanskrit and Pali that came in with Hindu Buddhism centuries ago, or that whether we argue for or against the teaching of Latin and Greek [in schools,] our argument is sure to be studded with words that have come to us from Rome and Athens, we get some indication of what early Chinese culture and Buddhism, and classical Mediterranean civilization have meant in the world's history. There are just five languages that have had an overwhelming significance as carriers of culture. They are classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Greek, and Latin. In comparison with these, even such culturally important languages as Hebrew and French sink into a secondary position.

My own pick for a "sixth classical language" would be Persian, for its role as the second language of Islam and historical status as the prestige language of an enormous area, from Istanbul to Bengal and Xinjiang.

Perhaps Pali would be another candidate (although the Theravadin world is much smaller than the historical Persianate world), although Sapir seems to subsume it under Sanskrit.

Are there places we can get Greek language audiobooks? Such as Audible.com? I noticed Audible does not have a large selection.

English, Farsi, Greek, Portuguese, Turkish...what else?

Hey language learners! I am a native Chinese speaker who’s currently studying abroad in the US. I am SOOO zestful for language learning or in general, learning more about the world. Please feel free to dm me! I can teach you Yunnan (Lijiang) dialect and Beijing dialect as well.