I was not expecting a reference to Ea-nāsir…
I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
All my homies hate Ea-nāsir. !reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me and my 4 tribesmen making meters of twine by funnelling fibers through a mamoth femur: “Isn’t technology amazing?”
Meanwhile in mesopotamia: “Your feedback is highly appreciated, please listen to our lyremen as you wait in line”
Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
shakes fist in anger 𒂍𒀀𒈾𒍢𒅕
DokPsy@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I’m flipping between “why is there cuneiform Unicode” and “of course there’s cuneiform Unicode” much more rapidly than I really expected
Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
cuneiform isnt even that weird,
check out the multiocular O ꙮ
this was only used once in a single cyrillic manuscript to spell “many-eyed seraphim”
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
𓂸 𓂹 𓂺 there are hieroglyphs too, and these appear often enough to be included.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Yeah, most dead scripts have Unicode, specifically because how the hell would you write academic papers about them in this day and age otherwise? Even old Irish Ogham:
ᚅᚖᚙᚗ
The line is a convention, because ogham was originally written on the corner of a stone stela.
reinei@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For anyone else stumbling about this revelation: It very well wouldn’t be Unicode otherwise now, would it?
There’s a reason linguists and computer scientists sometimes get mental breakdowns over emoji because the know that those same emoji were on the same agenda taking up actual time as discussions about which ancient language or newly discovered grapheme/symbol/lexicogram/whatever should be added first/next. (Not saying emoji aren’t also tremendously important/good/what ever additions!!)