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xoxoxoBruce 01-28-2019 01:15 AM

alphabet
 
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Alphabet, from whom all phrases flow;
Learn it, all you students here below;
Praise above, all the books you’ve read;
Do it, or teacher will smack your head.

tw 01-28-2019 09:29 AM

What is a Betabet?

xoxoxoBruce 01-28-2019 11:09 AM

Damifino, where is a betabet?

Happy Monkey 01-28-2019 11:25 AM

What's the "too" at the bottom? It doesn't seem to be in the original.

xoxoxoBruce 01-28-2019 12:15 PM

The waw in Proto-Sinaitic evolved into the F and also the U.

Happy Monkey 01-28-2019 12:20 PM

heh

Gravdigr 01-28-2019 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 1024322)
What is a Betabet?

It's the test release of the gammabet.

Griff 01-28-2019 04:41 PM

neat

Glinda 01-28-2019 04:42 PM

It's interesting to me that the Romans seem to have reversed (flipped left to right) many letters to suit their own devices. Uncreative bastards!!

Happy Monkey 01-28-2019 05:27 PM

They seem to have reversed EVERY non-symmetrical letter. I wonder if there was some sort of engraving system involved, where an inscription in one clay tablet could be dried out, and then pressed on another clay tablet to copy it.

This link implies that (at least sometimes) archaic Latin/greek was written right-to-left. The hardened engravings would travel better, but be reversed, while the soft clay ones would be considered more disposable.

tw 01-30-2019 03:08 PM

I was hoping to get to the end of it with a Zetabet. Only to discover there is an Etabet and Thetabet. Iota hope it eventually gets resolved.

sexobon 01-30-2019 04:52 PM

All bets are off.

Gravdigr 01-31-2019 10:15 AM

Don't bet on it.

Glinda 01-31-2019 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 1024358)
They seem to have reversed EVERY non-symmetrical letter. I wonder if there was some sort of engraving system involved, where an inscription in one clay tablet could be dried out, and then pressed on another clay tablet to copy it.

This link implies that (at least sometimes) archaic Latin/greek was written right-to-left. The hardened engravings would travel better, but be reversed, while the soft clay ones would be considered more disposable.

Of course this makes total sense.

But I think it's more likely that the Romans was just a bunch'a lazy, syphilitic bitches.

:biggrinje

xoxoxoBruce 02-01-2019 05:58 AM

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