Are Ancient Languages Pointless?

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• JO

  @John_Gooderham · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  The power couple <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/megshua">#MEGSHUA</a>. We need more videos of you together.

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• PH

  @physetermacrocephalus2209 · 3 weeks ago

  Everyone needs to at least learn a LITTLE Akkadian if they want to participate in the big Ea-nasir prank we are planning for the afterlife. He&apos;s going to be so suprised billions of people have read his mail and find his copper sus.

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• SC

  @ScottNey-g9c · 2 weeks ago

  Recently I&apos;ve been nerding out on Josh&apos;s latest book, Learn to Read Ancient Akkadian. Last summer I got back into studying Ancient Greek, and I have a few goals to chase after. But I&apos;m working with Akkadian simply because it&apos;s fun and fascinating. I am looking forward to the next volumes of Learn to Read Ancient Akkadian, whenever they are ready, and somewhere down the road I hope I&apos;ll find that I have the time to devote to taking a course.

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• NI

  @NikoK42A · 3 weeks ago

  I&apos;m sad that the plural of &apos;spouse&apos; isn&apos;t &apos;spice&apos;

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• SW

  @sweetpotatodato6068 · 3 weeks ago

  I wonder how the first writer felt when they had the first completed cuneiform tablet only to realize that almost nobody else could read it.

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• DA

  @Darisiabgal7573 · 3 weeks ago (edited)

  Akkadians Dead?<br><br>Why am I always the last to know?

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• MY

  @myhandlehasbeenmishandled · 2 weeks ago

  Honestly, I’m amazed and a little intellectually jealous of people like you two.

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• NO

  @nobodynobody4389 · 2 weeks ago

  Chaos dwarves and my d&amp;d campaign deep speech monsters speak this as I enjoy the way it sounds

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• WA

  @waynesworldofsci-tech · 3 weeks ago

  Heh. I’m trying to improve my French first. <br><br>I wish I could take the time to learn the ancient languages, but I’m just too busy.

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• NI

  @NikoK42A · 3 weeks ago

  &quot;I&apos;m here to help you avoid ancient aliens&quot; I somehow missed that before 😆thanks Megan, damn those pesky aliens! Learning to code in &gt;&gt;+ with Hammurabi

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• CU

  @Cure2Life_fk_off · 2 weeks ago

  I find the dynamic that the lesser is seemingly acting within the &quot;righteous&quot; law due to the failure of the &quot;lord&quot; to abuse slightly disturbing; but then the higher status person was just facing the echo of their own ruling hands, right? You get what you give?

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• MA

  @marhaperkelt · 2 weeks ago (edited)

  What is amazing, the Hungarian version of &quot;Poor man of Nippur&quot; is &quot;Ludas Matyi&quot; ~ &quot;Matthew the Goose Boy&quot; was written about 1804 (CE of course), printed first in 1815 in Vienna - and the bad guy who is the mayor in the Nippur story is a landlord and was identified as VIktor Orbán, till Matyi the poor man/good guy as Péter Magyar the new prime minister who won the election. So the new version is so popular that is was used in the parlamentary election campaign, though the ancient origins are not really know widespread. The author is Mihály Fazekas btw - he&apos;s of course famous here.

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