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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    LaOs wrote: »
    He was also unware, somehow, that vikings had runic alphabets.

    When I was first taking Japanese, and we started learning the Chinese numerals, there was an exercise where you were given the number in Kanji and asked to write it in Arabic numerals.

    Half the fucking class: "But...but we don't know Arabic!" :facepalm:

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  • HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Medopine wrote: »
    Haphazard wrote: »
    I hope you can dig up some links, Medopine. That's very interesting stuff.

    I also took this class about history of writing and language and we talked about this writing system I THINK it was from Easter Island, that is very very similar to another writing system from the other side of the world....arrrghh why can't I remember more.

    Germanic languages and Sanskrit have some words in common but it seems to be a coincidence. :)

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  • LaOsLaOs SaskatoonRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    LaOs wrote: »
    He was also unware, somehow, that vikings had runic alphabets.

    When I was first taking Japanese, and we started learning the Chinese numerals, there was an exercise where you were given the number in Kanji and asked to write it in Arabic numerals.

    Half the fucking class: "But...but we don't know Arabic!" :facepalm:

    Oh no...

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    The Cat wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    Morninglord didn't know that Western Europe stole the Latin Alphabet from the Romans.

    The stupid tide, she's a coming in.

    Give him a break, he's from the Gold Coast.

    I also created the op to learn more. I have learned. I now know more.

    Sorry for being ignorant in the past? Or should I say, sorry for being brave enough to show my ignorance in the spirit of learning more?

    Morninglord on
    (PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
  • HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Medopine, don't trust the Germans. They're shifty. :P

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    I'm an Eygpto-phile, so I like thinking they did the writing thing first.

    But it's ok if it ain't true, cause they did a lot of rad stuff besides that anyway.

    Also the Germans are still hanging on to the bust of Nefretiti and I AM a bit peeved that they won't give it back to Egypt (it was smuggled out of the country years ago all muddied up under the guise it was a piece of junk, grrr).

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  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2007
    Aliens built the pyramids.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    How the FUCK did they make the great Pyramid so exactly Medopine. Has anybody worked that out yet?

    Morninglord on
    (PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    What an adorable [chat] name.

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    Jews built the pyramids.

    Fixed.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    How the FUCK did they make the great Pyramid so exactly Medopine. Has anybody worked that out yet?

    Manpower, big rocks, and lots o grease, since they didn't have horses then.

    Also the pyramids were originally white stone with a band of red stone around the bottom and a gold capstone on the top. Would have been pretty awesome to look at in their day.

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  • JamesJames Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    Aliens built the pyramids.

    This is true. They used the insides for hunting other aliens!

    James on
  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    Crap, class is over. Back in a fewww

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    Italian Ice is one of the best things ever.

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  • Aroused BullAroused Bull Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    How the FUCK did they make the great Pyramid so exactly Medopine. Has anybody worked that out yet?
    Are you kidding? I can't tell.

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  • HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    James wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    Aliens built the pyramids.

    This is true. They used the insides for hunting other aliens!

    Tricky bastards! :o

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Pretty much the closest thing I could find that answers my question is antolian heiroglyphics, but that's more halfway between europe and india.
    You northern europeans have been slack! Stealin all your written symbols, sheesh.

    I am aware of the hypocrisy! Also <3

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    (PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Medopine wrote: »
    I'm an Eygpto-phile, so I like thinking they did the writing thing first.

    But it's ok if it ain't true, cause they did a lot of rad stuff besides that anyway.

    They've discovered an ancient Indic script that appears to predate the earliest Egyptian writings, AFAIK

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  • Aroused BullAroused Bull Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    You should probably do a bit of reading on alphabets, if only in the Britannica. You seem pretty ignorant on the topic.

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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    The Cat wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    Morninglord didn't know that Western Europe stole the Latin Alphabet from the Romans.

    The stupid tide, she's a coming in.

    Give him a break, he's from the Gold Coast.

    I also created the op to learn more. I have learned. I now know more.

    Sorry for being ignorant in the past? Or should I say, sorry for being brave enough to show my ignorance in the spirit of learning more?

    It's hardly much to ask that you, at some point in your life, have come across the term "Latin Alphabet".

    Or just have seen any Roman writing on anything ever, for that matter.

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  • HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Pretty much the closest thing I could find that answers my question is antolian heiroglyphics, but that's more halfway between europe and india.
    You northern europeans have been slack! Stealin all your written symbols, sheesh.

    I am aware of the hypocrisy! Also <3

    Well, since tribal lifestyle was still the big thing back then there was simply no need for an alphabet.

    Haphazard on
  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2007
    Time to start putting my computer together I guess.

    Dynagrip on
  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    The majority of languages never have or had a written system of any kind. Languages with writing systems are the exception rather than the rule.

    Languages with writing systems that they developed themselves, rather than acquired and adapted from another language, are incredibly rare.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    The Cat wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    Morninglord didn't know that Western Europe stole the Latin Alphabet from the Romans.

    The stupid tide, she's a coming in.

    Give him a break, he's from the Gold Coast.

    I also created the op to learn more. I have learned. I now know more.

    Sorry for being ignorant in the past? Or should I say, sorry for being brave enough to show my ignorance in the spirit of learning more?

    It's hardly much to ask that you, at some point in your life, have come across the term "Latin Alphabet".

    Or just have seen any Roman writing on anything ever, for that matter.

    I have never seen anything roman not already translated exactly into english. All I've ever seen are grecian mathematical symbols.

    Morninglord on
    (PSN: Morninglord) (Steam: Morninglord) (WiiU: Morninglord22) I like to record and toss up a lot of random gaming videos here.
  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    This Italian Ice describes itself as "Real Italian Ice".

    I like the idea that somewhere counterfiet Italian Ice is being smuggled into the country.

    _J_ on
  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    LaOs wrote: »
    He was also unware, somehow, that vikings had runic alphabets.

    When I was first taking Japanese, and we started learning the Chinese numerals, there was an exercise where you were given the number in Kanji and asked to write it in Arabic numerals.

    Half the fucking class: "But...but we don't know Arabic!" :facepalm:
    :lol:

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  • AlectharAlecthar Alan Shore We're not territorial about that sort of thing, are we?Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Awesome. Eva Green (Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale) is in The Golden Compass.

    Also, if there is something worse than a .999 = 1 thread than it almost has to be a conversation about linguistics.

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    The majority of languages never have or had a written system of any kind. Languages with writing systems are the exception rather than the rule.

    Languages with writing systems that they developed themselves, rather than acquired and adapted from another language, are incredibly rare.
    Hammurabi stole his alphabet from the Martians.

    Hacksaw on
  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Sweet I got zelda ds after working out.

    Look Out it's Sabs! on
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  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I have never seen anything roman not already translated exactly into english.

    I find this literally impossible to believe

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    Saburbia wrote: »
    Sweet I got zelda ds after working out.

    Have you played it yet?

    _J_ on
  • JamesJames Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    I have never seen anything roman not already translated exactly into english.

    I find this literally impossible to believe

    He does live in a penal colony.

    James on
  • Look Out it's Sabs!Look Out it's Sabs! Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    _J_ wrote: »
    Saburbia wrote: »
    Sweet I got zelda ds after working out.

    Have you played it yet?

    I just got back.

    Will soon. ;-)

    Look Out it's Sabs! on
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    3DS: 2852-6809-9411
  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    Saburbia wrote: »
    _J_ wrote: »
    Saburbia wrote: »
    Sweet I got zelda ds after working out.

    Have you played it yet?

    I just got back.

    Will soon. ;-)

    Awesomes. Let us know if it sucks.

    _J_ on
  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    What in the name of Caesar's bleeding ghost are you people on about?

    Hacksaw on
  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Guess what was in my Dad's wife's Oriental Trading Company box?
    japanese_hornet.jpg
    A MOTHER FUCKING JAPANESE HORNET. Oh god it was so scary. They froze, I picked up an ESPN magazine and fought a daring battle to the death. It took four direct hits for it to stop moving.

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  • _J__J_ Pedant Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2007
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    What in the name of Caesar's bleeding ghost are you people on about?

    I think they brought the Written Languages in Europe thread into the [chat] because nobody was posting in the Written Languages in Europe thread.

    _J_ on
  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    James wrote: »
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    I have never seen anything roman not already translated exactly into english.

    I find this literally impossible to believe

    He does live in a penal colony.

    A British penal colony. Brits love Latin!

    Senjutsu on
  • HaphazardHaphazard Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Senjutsu wrote: »
    I have never seen anything roman not already translated exactly into english.

    I find this literally impossible to believe

    Castigat ridendo mores.

    Haphazard on
  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited October 2007
    _J_ wrote: »
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    What in the name of Caesar's bleeding ghost are you people on about?

    I think they brought the Written Languages in Europe thread into the [chat] because nobody was posting in the Written Languages in Europe thread.
    A thread about linguistics? I can hardly blame them.

    Hacksaw on
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