alphabet

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.

What is a Betabet?

Damifino, where is a betabet?

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

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

heh

tw;1024322 wrote:

What is a Betabet?

It's the test release of the gammabet.

neat

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!!

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.

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.

All bets are off.

Don't bet on it.

Happy Monkey;1024358 wrote:

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

Wes Anderson's