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Hi there! I've used Halloran's published edition (2006) for many years, and find it very useful. His use of vocabulary definitions matches up pretty well with the ePSD, and those two are the best reasonably accessible sources for vocabulary in Sumerian, in my opinion.

I'm not on reddit, but the main criticisms I've seen of Halloran fall into two categories. One is his general non-academic-ness, and some of his very out-there beliefs on historical lingustics. (Don't go on his website, he's... a strange one.) These I've found not to impact his 2006 Sumerian Lexicon much, and I don't engage with them otherwise.

The other is his wildly speculative etymologies, which are included in the Lexicon. Some are reasonable (clear Akkadian borrowings, e.g.) while some are very unsupported. Nowadays I generally shy away from making reference to them here on the blog. I also do my best to cross-reference with the ePSD, or, when they contradict, mention which one says what, and I hope that's come across in prior posts & question answers!

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I had a dnd session today and I play Reverie who is objectively rude. He's obnoxious and makes comments about other people all the time, he is not likable. Why? Because they fey use their warlocks like tv and he needs to keep people watching and this is what they wanna watch. The result being that while ooc everyone loves him in character he doesn't have many friends.

That's fine, he lets plenty of people make snide remarks about him in return. Sure you can yell at him about what he said, he would have too. He also lets lets the group violate his privacy even while they are basically strangers, I mean he doesn't really have privacy anyways and we've already encountered a few npcs who have seen his show.

There is however a limit and he hit that today, Halloran (another pc) has a super evil nightmare book that knows way more about us then its supposed to and has already made its fair share of menacing comments to the group aimed at our specific traumas. The limit wasn't when Halloran asked the book to reveal what Reverie reveals most, it was when Halloran commented about Reverie being bothered by the book watching him when Reverie is the reason the whole party is constantly being watch. For other reasons he has been having a bad day and given that the cameras weren't rolling in that moment he started to yell.

Problem! Reverie's brain got rewired so when he feels negative emotions he laughs. Because the book scares him he'd already been laughing a good ten minutes and now through laughs he started to yell about how 'oh yes of course, cause I signed up to be watched. I signed up for all this awful shit! Of course its all my fault!' which the party already knew he was sold into this from a 'trade your first born child' kind of deal when he was little. He kept going on and on about various terrible things that had been happened to him and then chastising the party with 'Why aren't you laughing now? What's wrong, is it not funny anymore? Is it not funny now that I'm upset?' while unable to stop himself from laughing.