Posted on 10/01/2010 7:06:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Oh, I believe you that they cracked the general sounds of the language, but how French sounds by even a GOOD American student, by a Parisian, and by a Canadian sounds so different.
You ain't heard different until you hear Cajun French in South Louisiana ;^)
An illustrated lecture which presents two Old Babylonian incantations in comparative perspective. The language and emotions of new love and sexual attraction are shared in compositions as diverse as Akkadian and Sumerian love incantations and popular music from nearly four thousand years later. The incantations are on tablets newly published in the speaker’s Mesopotamian Incantations and Related Texts. One is completely new, the other strangely familiar.
Note: The Roy Orbison song, "Oh Pretty Woman," which plays for several seconds during the lecture has been edited out owing to copyright laws.
Be My Baby in Babylonia | The Oriental Institute | Published on April 20, 2017 | Presented by Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian, University of London, SOAS
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