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I'm not sure what someone in Ohio was hoping to find with the search "things that start with G in the Middle Ages" but I have to suspect that my Graduate seminar syllabus was not it. Some alternative suggestions include: Greaves, gold, game pieces, Gothic architecture, gargoyles, grotesques, Ghaznavids, gravestones, German, grammar, ghazal, genizah, graffiti, Great Mosque.

Overrun with Dictionaries

Back in the States, back to work, and now off to test out the Arabischekomplexitätsverdichtungstheorie. As opposed to the Germanischeausdruckskomplexitätshypothese, which is largely similar but without right-to-left support or quite as many types of camels.


(Nomenclature adapted from @girlarchaeo.)