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Danny Bate
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Danny Bate's personal blog at dannybate.com covers writing and science. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Decline and Fall of the Latin Neuter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Danny Bate's blog covers Old Latin inscriptions and related epitaph material. One HN commenter linked it as a good resource on that subject, though not on the specific Duenos Inscription being discussed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is a personal website for me, Dr Danny Bate, a linguist, writer, public speaker and broadcaster. For news and reviews of my bestselling book, Why Q Needs U, all about the alphabet and the way we write, check out the page for the book! This website started out as a place for me to…
Most-linked posts?
- The Decline and Fall of the Latin Neuter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-23
What Hacker News says?
Good blog post about Old Latin inscriptions, though not so much this partiuclar one, but talks about related material: https://dannybate.com/2021/05/28/grave-language-the-epitaph-...
Comment linking /2021/05/28/grave-language-the-epitaph-of-lucius-cornelius-scipio/
on “Duenos Inscription”Submitted You know more Finnish than you think as a story · 157 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Decline and Fall of the Latin Neuter as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Decline and Fall of the Latin Neuter (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Etymological Problem with Apples as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Almost Romance Languages as a story · 1 points
HN discussion