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Marijn van Putten

@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!

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.

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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Marijn van Putten

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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.

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Marijn van Putten

@PhDniX

Apr 21

https://twitter.com/Quranic_Islam/status/1781866855990235365

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?

https://twitter.com/Quranic_Islam/status/1781866855990235365

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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Marijn van Putten

@PhDniX

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.

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?

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!

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Marijn van Putten

@PhDniX

Apr 13

The canonical Kufan readers Ḥamzah and al-Kisāʾī read the word ʾumm "mother" or ʾummahāt "mothers" with a kasrah whenever -ī or -i precedes, e.g.:
Q43:4 fī ʾimmi l-kitābi
Q39:6/Q53:32 fī buṭūni ʾimma/ihātikum

This seems random, but there is a general pattern here! 🧵

This feature was explained al-Farrāʾ in a lengthy discussion at the start of his Maʿānī. This makes sense: al-Farrāʾ was al-Kisāʾī's student who in turn was Ḥamzah's. Surprisingly in "The Iconic Sībawayh" Brustad is under the misapprehension that this is not a canonical variant.

This is irregular, such a vowel harmony does not occur in cases with other words that starts with ʾu-. For example, Q13:30 is just fī ʾummatin, not **fī ʾimmatin.

However this irregular reading is part of a larger pattern of vowel harmony accross guttural consonants.

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Marijn van Putten

@PhDniX

Mar 20

Those who have read my book on Quranic Arabic may have noticed that I translate The Arabic word luġah as "linguistic practice", rather than "dialect" which is how many people commonly translate it.

This is for good reason: among the Arab grammarians it did not mean dialect! 🧵

In Modern Standard Arabic, luġah basically just means "language", as can be seen, e.g. on the Arabic Wikipedia page on the Dutch Language which calls it al-luġah al-hūlandiyyah.

This modern use gets projected onto the early Arab grammarians like Sībawayh and al-Farrāʾ.

But, they clearly do not mean that to the early grammarians. This is clear from statements like Sībawayh saying: faʿil forms that have a guttural consonant as second radical have four "luġāt": faʿil, fiʿil, faʿl and fiʿl.

In English a word or word-form cannot "have" a dialect.

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Marijn van Putten

@PhDniX

Dec 26, 2023

A great irony of the whole "Muhammad is in the song of songs!" debacle, is that in basically all early sources that write vowels (Greek, Coptic, Sassanian, Syriac) but also in many modern languages (e.g. Turkish) his name appears to have been commonly been pronounced Maḥma/id.

Maḥmad would be a perfect match for the word-form found in the song of songs. But to give into that would of course be to allow for the Quran what they so readily consider acceptable for Hebrew, and are not willing to grant that. Double standards, plain and simple.

Because there is so much 7th-9th c. material that *clearly* attest to the prophet being called Maḥmad, even in Muslim documents, there is really no doubt that quite some muslims were calling him Maḥmad. There is no evidence the song of songs maḥămaddim was ever muḥammad.

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