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First Sentence Ever Found in Ancient Alphabet, and It's About Beard Lice
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| Isaac Schultz
Posted on 11/09/2022 9:20:30 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: windcliff
To: BenLurkin
“the first-known written sentence in Canaanite...”
Isn’t this the same as the Hebrew alphabet, or proto-Hebraic? Sure looks like it.
Just because you write a different language with an alphabet doesn’t make it a new alphabet.
To: BenLurkin
“May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”Gross.
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posted on
11/09/2022 11:14:10 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: BenLurkin
I grew up with a children’s book on Alexander the Great, and the only thing from it has stuck with me was that Alex told his troops to shave so that their enemies couldn’t grab them by the beard and slice their heads off. Had an awesome accompanying graphic, too!
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posted on
11/09/2022 3:13:59 PM PST
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nicollo
("I said no!")
To: BipolarBob
..Take me downtown, I'm just looking for some tusk...
To: BenLurkin
I pointed out to a professor once that these combs were more about parasites than grooming. He had never thought about that. We live in a society where personal parasites are rarely a problem. The style of these combs still exists:
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11/10/2022 4:28:31 AM PST
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Varda
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