Posted on 05/12/2012 11:32:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
It bears some resemblance to Akkadian.
Possibly, but probably not. Ever read Beowulf in Old English?
"Beowulf wæs breme --- blæd wide sprang--- Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in. "
Okay, possibly.
“deportees”
Nice word for being enslaved!
LOL!
"My Thing is my own, I'll keep it so still;
Yet all the young maidens may do as they will."
Early Google Maps?
It had an eerily resemblance to modern-day ebonics.
Pig Sumarian? Just drop the first letter, add it on the end, and complete it with a long “a” sound.
Authentic Frontier Gibberish?
It had an eerily resemblance to modern-day ebonics
I thought I could make out, “Yo yo yo, whazup homeslice”
what it says is: "Please Vote Obama 2012 or you'll be a RACIST Homophobic women hater". /s
Awesome stuff!
That was my first thought as well. Not that there wasn't male chattel too, but that it was probably deemed more expendable.
BTW, I've always enjoyed reading the comments on the GGG threads because I could learn from the intelligent discussion of topics that interest me, but are somewhat above my pay grade.
It's getting harder to find that type of discussion while navigating around the mostly unfunny attempts at one-line "humor." It's making me a little cranky these days. Anyway, thanks for your always interesting pings, SV.
I see it’s all uppercase ( lowercase fonts had not been invented by then):
“THIS DON’T MEAN NOTHING. LET THE SUCKERS WHO FIND IT SCRATCH THERE NOODLES”
Note the faulty FR type grammar - “DON’T” instead of “DOESN’T” and “THERE” instead of “THEY’RE”!
Some stud making of list of his conquests, no doubt.
Woman were likely chattel. Ergo, it is possibly an inventory of such property for the royal household?
Well, it's obvious even to the most casual observer. This is the first attempt at a universal language, following the collapse of the tower of Babel ... ;-)
“cuneiform texts can be pronounced”....... How is it possible to know how something is pronounced when no one has heard it spoken in thousands of years?
The Sound of Akkadian -- Listen to Ancient Babylonian online
Thanks for the post, Civ. Me likes.
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