This thread would be useless without pics. Okay, no, it wouldn't. Great article from Heritage Key.
Hammurabi by Gabriele B., on Flickr
1 posted on
10/01/2010 7:06:38 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Is this not what most of Civilized Society’s Laws are based on?
3 posted on
10/01/2010 7:11:36 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(lame and ill-informed post)
To: Fred Nerks
Thought you would want to hear what Akkadian sounded like!
4 posted on
10/01/2010 7:12:38 PM PDT by
Candor7
(Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
To: SunkenCiv
Fascinating - thanks for posting that.
5 posted on
10/01/2010 7:14:37 PM PDT by
Moonmad27
(That government is best which governs least. - Henry Thoreau)
To: SunkenCiv
6 posted on
10/01/2010 7:22:10 PM PDT by
Mr. Silverback
(Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
To: SunkenCiv
Bookmarked this site. Thanks so much for posting this!
8 posted on
10/01/2010 7:29:29 PM PDT by
tanuki
(Obamacare, Cap and Tax, Amnesty, in that order....)
To: SunkenCiv
How do they know what it sounded like, if the last native speakers died out 2,000 years ago, when we can’t even keep spoken English the same for 200 years (New Englander vs. Southerner, vs. Valley Girl, vs. etc...)?
11 posted on
10/01/2010 7:55:19 PM PDT by
IYAS9YAS
(Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
To: SunkenCiv
13 posted on
10/01/2010 8:26:43 PM PDT by
silverleaf
(The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
To: SunkenCiv
ūta-napišti ana šâšumma izakkara ana gilgameš 8 Ūta-napišti spoke to him, to Gilgamesh: 9 lupteka gilgameš amāt niṣirti 10 u pirišti ša ilāni kâša luqbika 9 "I will disclose to you, Gilgamesh, a secret matter, 10 and I will tell you a mystery of the gods. ETAOIN SHRDLU!
17 posted on
10/01/2010 9:18:10 PM PDT by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow this is so cool. I just got through with a book on code breaking and how they used some ancient languages to code military traffic to keep it from the enemies. I just ordered Rosetta Stone Hebrew. I found it fascinating how the letters can represent numbers as well as letters and how the letters work together to form words as well as represent ideas and how just changing a letter can change the meaning of the word. It is just so different from English. I am also looking into Greek and Latin.
Thanks for the link.
18 posted on
10/01/2010 10:40:41 PM PDT by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: SunkenCiv
I always thought Akkadian sounded like a french guy with marbles in his mouth.
19 posted on
10/01/2010 11:30:05 PM PDT by
Defiant
(Liberals care more about the Koran than they did about Terri Schiavo.)
To: SunkenCiv
HOW can experts in a written language know how it sounds?? I call BS. The first two recordings, the one guy sounds like he is trying to approximate (or has) a middle eastern accent. The second one, a woman, has an very obvious German accent. We don’t know how the original speakers sounded with their choices of vowels and any sound that we now use the letters “r” or “ch” for.
The reasearch is commendable. Learning what the writings tell us is important. Trying to “fake” an ancient accent is not.
37 posted on
10/02/2010 2:55:52 PM PDT by
Yaelle
To: SunkenCiv
Let me know when they have readings of Sumerian available to listen to.
39 posted on
10/03/2010 7:21:57 PM PDT by
Zionist Conspirator
(Shofekh dam ha'adam, ba'adam damo yishshafekh; ki betzelem 'Eloqim `asah 'et-ha'adam.)
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