Scientists unlock secrets of 3,000-year-old tablet revealing path to Noah's Ark

Jerusalem Post ^ | 30/10/24

[dfwgator]

It would be “la française”.

[PIF]

Different word? How about thousands of conversational idioms?

[dfwgator]

“Il pleut comme vache qui pisse !”

[dfwgator]

And don’t get me started on verlan. I mean you take all the trouble to learn French, only to go there and hear them say “Cimer” instead of “Merci”.

[Eleutheria5]

One opinion is five handbreadths, the other is six. Sometimes, in some issues, the one opinion is followed, sometimes the other.

Handbreadths are still the standard in evaluating horses, from hoof to shoulder.

[Paal Gulli]

"Enlil told Gilgamesh to build a boat."

Exactly. If it was written in cuneiform, in Babylonia, it's 1. pre-Apostilic and 2. referring the flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Nothing to do with the Flood of Noah unless, of course, the Noah's flood story was adapted from Gilgamesh's.

[GaltAdonis]

Je suis une vache analphabète, apparemment.

[PIF]

Da

[beef]

“What’s a cubit?”

You’ll have to ask Bill Cosby.