Posted on 10/11/2018 12:25:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Good thing you're not an archaeologist or historian.
Aramaic was adopted by the Persian Empire as its official tongue, which looks odd now, but resulted in Aramaic being spoken by more people than perhaps any language in the world up to that time (remembering that China's languages are many, and India was divided among at least four or five different ethnic groups). Hebrew and Aramaic are both Semitic languages (Persian is from the Indo-European tree, which has numerically more speakers than any other family of languages), but Hebrew writing was adapted for use by Aramaic-speaking Hebrews.
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Thank you so much! You were right about that.
LOL. Maybe not as much in archeology, but in business you see things being rejected out of hand non-stop. With uber-rich bosses saying something like “Who’s going to want to watch a movie in their home when there are thousands of big screen movie houses, 60 minutes of tape is plenty” (Sony BetaMax boss), or “What’s the point of having a computer so small that people can carry them around with them” (who knows, but probably someone out there).
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