Hieroglyphics still blows my mind. A bunch of recognizable characters, like Bird-House-Dog. Then they tried to decipher it, and wound up wondering: Does that mean that the Bird lived with the dog in the house? Or did the dog maybe eat the bird in the house? Or maybe...
Wound up none of the above. The characters were simply sounds, no different than our “a, b, c, d...”. They had us going for thousands of years with that scheme!
Freakin' flyin' dogs, they were a scourge, particularly when they walked into a bar in Sumeria...
I have a question about Chinese.