🤷‍♂️ → E

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• Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I bet the Sumerians would be proud 🥹

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• cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They cover this in the BBC documentary The Secret History of Writing, which is really worth a watch if you haven’t seen it.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUuPq3mWaU

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  • NathanDerWeise@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh that sounds right up my alley, thank you.

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  • Hatshepsut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thanks so much! That was a fascinating watch and far more in-depth than expected.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah nice. I saw that on PBS and loved it. I didn’t remember/realize it was from the BBC originally… now I’m just disappointed to not have another doc on that topic.

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• rhinestones@europe.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a wealthy millionaire living my best life, I’m giving 35 grand to anyone who messages “GRACE” on Telegram @Georgestones12 I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden. It’s a season of love, kindness, and blessings.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I love letters that used to just be a little guy. The LUGAL cuneiform symbol 𒈗 is another example. (Tilt your head to the left - he’s wearing a hat! )

  You can see the man component (lu) here:

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do we know how they wrote the stuff in 600 BC? That shit looks so annoying to do without stamps

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes! They used a reed with a wedge profile and pressed it into soft clay at different angles to make the different marks. There are many different cuneiform writing systems - cuneus is Latin for “wedge”.

      I think it’s fair to say it was quite impractical compared to modern writing, and you can see how it got vastly simpler over time - some symbols had dozens of individual marks, but were eventually obsoleted or simplified to have only a handful. The thing is, society was not literate then, so it was only the scribe profession that needed to use it.

      And when you get into the akkadian system where one symbol could have a phonetic meaning (like a letter) or more than one, or also a logographic meaning (one symbol=one word), it is quite chaotic.

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is like one of those memes showing a proud wolf transforming into a pug.

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• kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hey Renault, can you say the letter E lots of times?

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• RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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