"New Life For A Dead Language" Topic
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 enfant perdus  | 04 Jun 2011 8:38 p.m. PST |
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 Parzival | 04 Jun 2011 9:41 p.m. PST |
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| Ed Mohrmann | 05 Jun 2011 2:06 a.m. PST |
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| Buff Orpington | 05 Jun 2011 7:42 a.m. PST |
One day a future civilisation will spend 90 years reconstructing the English language using only text messages as the source data. |
| jpattern2 | 05 Jun 2011 8:42 a.m. PST |
Too damn cool!
And now we can have accurate slogans on our Assyrian war banners. |
 gaiusrabirius | 05 Jun 2011 9:00 a.m. PST |
Very interesting, thank you. |
| (Leftee) | 05 Jun 2011 11:32 a.m. PST |
I have new respect for the sheep liver, or '>I><^(]' as it's called in Akkad. |
| The Dozing Dragon | 05 Jun 2011 12:27 p.m. PST |
'21 volumes of Akkadian, a Semitic language (with several dialects, including Assyrian) that endured for 2,500 years' Is there a pocket version?? |
| (Leftee) | 05 Jun 2011 9:11 p.m. PST |
Anyone have a spare volume 16?- I dropped it and it shattered on my kitchen tile. Will buy the garden Stele set next time. |
| mweaver | 06 Jun 2011 5:29 a.m. PST |
Talk about team work (and patience)! |
| Parzival | 06 Jun 2011 12:41 p.m. PST |
Conversation heard when the project ended: Questioner: "Wow! Will it be available over the Internet?" Researcher: "The Inter-what?" 
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learns to drill with a screwdriver.