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experts aren’t sure what the specific idiom says,
I'll bet $2 that it's a poop joke
Please don’t read that language out loud…
I mean....is the curse really that much worse than what's going on now? It would certainly be more interesting I think lmao
Is there a server in which you don't have an account?
435 of them, based on lemmyverse's current count of 466 instances
Actually now that I think about it, I still don't have a slrpnk account lmao, my trading card deck is incomplete!
Well, rock on.
It'd be cool if it was related to basque
It isn't. The article said it's in the Indo-European family and related to a previously-known language in what is modern-day Turkey.
This was exactly my first thought!
As Drusas said, it's an Indo-European language. From a rather distant branch of the family, called Anatolian:
The main language of the tablet (Hittite) is also Anatolian.
Is this about copper again?
The tablet to Ea-nāṣir, right? That's from Ur (modern Iraq), and at least a century older, perhaps four.
(The tablet to Ea-nāṣir was dated from 1750 BCE. I'm not sure on the exact date of the tablet in the OP, but the site ranges from 1200 to 1650 BCE.)
It was in fact a joke. I do know they are entirely different and from different regions and cultures. I was just being humorous, which I guess doesn't go over well on this app.
... ...then I ruined your joke. Sorry.