Darth InSidious Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 SANDBANKS Won't somebody think of the children!
Sabretooth Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 [09:21] Devon: wuh-oh we've got a problem? [09:22] Darathy: There is [09:22] Darathy: ? [09:22] Sabre: Yes, Sandbanks. [09:22] Devon: /belated [09:22] Darathy: OHGOD [09:22] Darathy: NOT SANDBANKS [09:24] Darathy: And need sleep since **** it's 3:55 AM and I need to get up in four eyes. Hours. I meant hours. >.> [09:24] Darathy: Yes. [09:25] Darathy: Nght, ll Photograph of what was lurking outisde Darathy's bedroom:
Da_man Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 SANDBANKS Won't somebody think of the children! I think of the children, but I lose interest after five seconds. SANDBANKS.
Bee Hoon Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 I-I'm scared ;_; Where's my mummy? I WANT MY MUMMY!!!
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 bee do they have sand where you're from
Litofsky Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 SANDBANKS Won't somebody think of the children! No.
Darth InSidious Posted December 4, 2008 Author Posted December 4, 2008 Tjesu The 'Tj' is probably pronounced something like 'ch' as in 'cheese'.
Litofsky Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 Does this say "Nile" in Hieroglyphics, Darathy?
Darth InSidious Posted December 5, 2008 Author Posted December 5, 2008 That's the general word for 'river'; the spelling would appear to have been taken from Papyrus Leyden 344, Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage.
Litofsky Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 "Spelling," you remark? I thought that Hieroglyphics were, in a sense, like Chinese characters: individual characters represent ideas, as opposed to a conglomeration of letters, which also represent ideas.
Darth InSidious Posted December 5, 2008 Author Posted December 5, 2008 "Spelling," you remark? I thought that Hieroglyphics were, in a sense, like Chinese characters: individual characters represent ideas, as opposed to a conglomeration of letters, which also represent ideas. So did Young; that's why Champollion cracked hieroglyphs first. There are roughly four categories of hieroglyph: uniliteral, equating to roughly one letter or sound. for example, 'k', 'i', etc.; biliteral, representing two of our sounds, for example 'sd', 'ab', etc.; triliteral, being three, (e.g. 'ankh'); and determinatives, which are more symbolic, and tend to be used to represent the type of word being written (in a very broad category). These aren't clear-cut, though. Sometimes determinative/ideographic symbols can read as letters, and sometimes characters that are also literal or phonographric can function as determinatives or idiograms.
Litofsky Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 So did Young; that's why Champollion cracked hieroglyphs first. There are roughly four categories of hieroglyph: uniliteral, equating to roughly one letter or sound. for example, 'k', 'i', etc.; biliteral, representing two of our sounds, for example 'sd', 'ab', etc.; triliteral, being three, (e.g. 'ankh'); and determinatives, which are more symbolic, and tend to be used to represent the type of word being written (in a very broad category). These aren't clear-cut, though. Sometimes determinative/ideographic symbols can read as letters, and sometimes characters that are also literal or phonographric can function as determinatives or idiograms. My goodness, Darathy. How long did it take you to learn this?
Darth InSidious Posted December 5, 2008 Author Posted December 5, 2008 Uh, that was preliminary work for my first ever lecture on Hieroglyphs.
Litofsky Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 Uh, that was preliminary work for my first ever lecture on Hieroglyphs. I meant it in the sense that you measure your studies in years or decades? Seriously, though, Egypt in general is an amazing area, in both a historical and geographical context: every empire that is worth remembering (in the West) has controlled Egypt, if that says anything about the region. But I need not explain that to you.
Darth InSidious Posted December 5, 2008 Author Posted December 5, 2008 Erm, I've been studying Egypt since I was 18. So a little over a decade, now... Stop making me feel old, gorram it!
Samuel Dravis Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 YOU'RE OLD, DARATHY Also what is my name in HIEROGLYPHICS. Also what is a sandbank in those same letters.
Samnmax221 Posted December 5, 2008 Posted December 5, 2008 The banks are gonna fail, keep your sand in your mattress.
Sabretooth Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 ytkdtyfpboobu9ob99giiugh. _EW_ I approve of that boob.
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