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@PhDniX
Sep 9, 2020 • 26 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
In case anyone who cares about my bad fighting game takes among my followers, give me some likes! Image
1. Probably The King of Fighters 2002UM, though due to bad netplay I haven't played it nearly as much as OG2k2. After that probably Alpha 2.
2. Hard to say. Got burned out the most on Street Fighter 4. But still enjoyed watching it after. Alpha 3 is incredibly ugly and terrible. Have a love-hate relation with SF3: Third Strike.
3. Baiken in Guilty Gear XX #Reload! Still one of the coolest characters ever.
4. Brawler/Grappler hybrids. Makoto (in 3s at least) is great; I love O. Yashiro, but also slightly less obvious grapplery dudes like Andy in 2k2.
5. Shoto versus Shoto is still really damn enjoyable.
6. Grappler versus zoner, because I'm never the zoner in that Matchup. I find it enjoyable to watch though.
7. 2k2UM by just its sheer size and all the badass KOF characters in it it has the best roster.
8. Seichuusen godanzuki!
Other than that I'm a huge fan of great "buttons", especially far reaching beefy mids. Whip st.CD, Rose cr.MP, all of Ralf's buttons in 98 ever, Makoto's https://t.co/k65Wg3pm0U, man...
9. I would love a KOF vs Street Fighter with KOF mechanics. That seems like fun. KOF vs Melty blood with some hybrid between those two systems seems awesome too.
10. I would put 3s Makoto in a different game. If that's cheating, I would make Yashiro's cr.A to st.B chain less annoying.
11. Like DLC costumes? I've never been into that shit. Way too distracting and weird. I want the costume that the character ships with. That being said, C color O. Yashiro in 2k2 is awesome. Image
12. Favourite fighting game storyline? People actually play fighting games for the storyline? I literally have no idea.
13. I don't really care for fighting game announcers. Capcom versus SNK 2's is okay in how over the top ridiculous it is.
14. Iori's 月を見るたび 思い出せ (tsuki o mirutabi omoidase, "whenever you see the moon, remember me!"), mostly because it's iconic, despite being totally cringy.

15. Who the hell has 1-hit KOs? I suppose Haohmaru is VERY satisfying if he hits a max damage heavy slash. Can that 1-hit KO? If not, Kenshiro's hokuto hyakuretsu ken, of course.
16. Favorite rivalry? I'm pretty sure I'd have to care about the story to have that. Let's say Alex & Hugo because their pre-fight animation is cool.
17. No idea about favourite character intro, don't we all skip those?
18. Ichigeki Hissatsu!
19. Favourite character reveal... Most games I love didn't do big character reveals and if they did it happened way before I started playing them. I vaguely remember being excited about Classic Iori in KOF13... though honestly I like Claw Iori better.
20. Favourite fighting game mechanic: Easy, KOF short hop.
21. I would love for Yashiro / the whole Orochi team to be back on a KOF roster.
22. I'd swap third strikes parry for Alpha 2's alpha counters... That would probably break the game, but I love the game feel of 3s, but I really don't think parries were ever a good mechanic. I've always liked Alpha 2 counters in that they so boldly do a shitton of damage.
23. Ditch only one game from one franchise? Man I could easily ditch whole franchises. I don't care for Mortal Kombat, nor for Tekken. KOF has so many shitty iterations that it's very easy to ditch some of those too, I'll ditch 2k1, 2k3 easy.
24. SF4 Makoto is the *worst*, I don't even think she's bad, but just so slow and bleh and feels nothing like 3s Makoto. OG2k2 K' is also really really terrible.
25. I do really love the 3s sound track, though much of Guilty Gear XX is fantastic too. Alpha 2 is dear to my heart. KOF98 is good too. Many so many good OSTs in fighting games!

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Aug 5
I'm about to start watching this.

As some of you may know, I don't have a particularly high opinion of Arabic101, but now he's wading into the manuscript fray...

Will be live-tweeting facepalms as I go through it. Image
0:14 "what you see is 100% identical today to any Muṣḥaf".

Minor gripe. It's identical to the Madani Muṣḥaf, but not really to the Kufan, Basran or Damascene. But still 99.9% so this is really nitpicky.
0:43 "Re-phrased Ayat/Removed words/Added words" is of course anachronistic. It implies that the text we have today is more original than the Sanaa Palimpsest. Not much to suggest that.
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Jul 22
In his 2020 book, Shady Nasser spends a chapter on a 'survival of the fittest' model of canonization of the reading traditions, arguing that over time the "majority transmission" tended to win out.

He choses a rather unusual example to illustrate this. 🧵 Image
On page 25, Nasser tries to present an evolutionary model, with natural selection, by which some transmission paths of the seven readers become 'canonical', while others don't. One of these is that one "drops out" when diverging from the standard reading of the group... Image
As an illustration of this divergence from the standard, he cites what he considers a non-canonical reading among the seven, namely the imalah of an-nēsi, which is a variant reading transmitted for Abū Ṭāhir ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. ʿUmar al-Bazzār (d. 349/960). Image
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Jul 10
Ibn Ḫālawayh's (d. 380) Kitāb al-Badīʿ is an interesting book on the Qirāʾāt because it's the earliest surviving work that tries to simplify the transmissions of the readings, and does it rather differently from what becomes popular, the system of Ibn Ġalbūn the father (d. 389) Image
Ibn Ḫālawayh was Ibn Muǧāhid's student, who is widely held to be the canonizer of the seven reading traditions. Ibn Muǧāhid's book is the earliest book on the 7 reading traditions. But canon or not, Ibn Ḫālawayh's book actually describes 8 (adding Yaʿqūb).
Today the simplified system (and the only surviving one) is the "two-rawi canon". Each of the 7 readers, have two standard transmitters (all of them were once transmitter by more transmitters than those two). This system was introduced by ʾAbū al-Ṭayyib Ibn Ġalbūn in his ʾiršād. Image
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May 3
NEW PUBLICATION: "Pronominal variation in Arabic among grammarians, Qurʾānic readings traditions and manuscripts".

This article has been in publication hell for 4 years. But it was an seminal work for my current research project, and a great collaboration with Hythem Sidky.
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In this paper we try to describe the pronominal system used in early Islamic Classical Arabic. There is a striking amount of variation in this period, most of which does not survive into "standard classical Arabic".
We first look at the grammarians and how they describe the pronominal system.. Much of this description is already in my book (Van Putten 2022), but I assure you we wrote this way before I wrote that 🥲
Notable here is that Sībawayh prescribes minhū instead of now standard minhu. Image
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Apr 21
In my book "Quranic Arabic" I argue that if you look closely at the Quranic rasm you can deduce that the text has been composed in Hijazi Arabic (and later classicized into more mixed forms in the reading traditions). Can we identify dialects in poetry?
I think this is possible to some extent, yes. And so far this has really not been done at all. Most of the time people assume complete linguistic uniformity in the poetry, and don't really explore it further.
But there are a number of rather complex issues to contend with:
As @Quranic_Islam already identified, there are some philological problems that get in the way in poetry that aren't there for the Quran: I would not trust a hamzah being written in a written down poem. This might be classicization. So it's hard to test for this Hijazi isogloss.
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Apr 17
Last year I was asked to give a talk at the NISIS Autumn School about the textual history of the Quran. Here's a thread summarizing the points of that presentation. Specifically the presentation addresses some of Shoemaker's new objections on the Uthmanic canonization. Image
Traditionally, the third caliph ʿUṯmān is believed to have standardized the text.

However, in critical scholarship of the '70s the historicity of this view came to be questioned.

How can we really be sure that what the tradition tells us is correct?
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This skepticism wasn't wholly unwarranted at the time. The Uthmanic canonization really had been uncritically accepted, not based on any material evidence.

But we now have access to many manuscripts, beautifully digitized, we can test the historicity of these claims! Image
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