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It says: Drink your Ovaltine.
“we have been trying to reach you regarding your chariot’s extended warranty...”
Is Linear Elamite related to Linear A (Minoan) or Linear B (Mycenaean)?
I’m going with Mesopotamian hobos.
Admittedly I only scanned the article but it never says what it said? Only said they’ve figured out 96% - if you have that much, why not tell us what it said? Did I miss something?
“Let’s go Brandon”
The silver vessel resembles a German beer stein in shape, so maybe the inscription is a drinking song.
There once was a hermit named Dave..........
A society having its own script, different from neighbors, would have been part of protecting cultural identity.
An ancient Korean king had a group of scholars create the Korean script, which is a phonetic alphabet designed to be able to match all the sounds in the spoken Korean language. He was working at divorcing Korea from Chinese influence, so he wanted to throw out the use of written Chinese. Once that project was completed he then had a Korean observatory built, had the moon stars and planets plotted in reference to Korea and had a whole astrologocal chart and cAlendar devised, to replace the use of the system borrowed from the Chinese. In the historical record of all this you find the Korean scholarly class up in arms over the king’s
Korea-first cultural projects. There was even rebellion against the king considered. Entrenched elite classes are the same everywhere and in all time peruods - trying to protect their self interest in their own incumbancy.
Being a phonetic alphabet and not 3,000 or so ideograms, and with the Korean script required for all schools to use it and adults get educated with it, in less than generation literacy and writing boomed in Korea. Japan would have been better off if they had either adopted the Korean script or made one of their own.
“We’d like to tell you about the benefits of a Medicare advantage plan.”
Elamites actually conquered Mesopotamia and ruled it for a short time, but they spoke a Indo-European language entirely foreign to the people of the area, as evidenced by the names of their rulers that the Mesopotamians recorded in their king lists.
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“Achmed’s mead is the best.Drink at Achmed’s”
A shot of Horizontal’s teleprompter?