alphabet

xoxoxoBruce · 01-28-2019, 01:15 AM

Alphabet, from whom all phrases flow;
Learn it, all you students here below;
Praise above, all the books you’ve read;
Do it, or teacher will smack your head.

tw · 01-28-2019, 09:29 AM

What is a Betabet?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-28-2019, 11:09 AM

Damifino, where is a betabet?

Happy Monkey · 01-28-2019, 11:25 AM

What's the "too" at the bottom? It doesn't seem to be in the original.

xoxoxoBruce · 01-28-2019, 12:15 PM

The waw in Proto-Sinaitic evolved into the F and also the U.

Happy Monkey · 01-28-2019, 12:20 PM

heh

Gravdigr · 01-28-2019, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw

What is a Betabet?

It's the test release of the gammabet.

Griff · 01-28-2019, 04:41 PM

neat

Glinda · 01-28-2019, 04:42 PM

It's interesting to me that the Romans seem to have reversed (flipped left to right) many letters to suit their own devices. Uncreative bastards!!

Happy Monkey · 01-28-2019, 05:27 PM

They seem to have reversed EVERY non-symmetrical letter. I wonder if there was some sort of engraving system involved, where an inscription in one clay tablet could be dried out, and then pressed on another clay tablet to copy it.

This link implies that (at least sometimes) archaic Latin/greek was written right-to-left. The hardened engravings would travel better, but be reversed, while the soft clay ones would be considered more disposable.

tw · 01-30-2019, 03:08 PM

I was hoping to get to the end of it with a Zetabet. Only to discover there is an Etabet and Thetabet. Iota hope it eventually gets resolved.

sexobon · 01-30-2019, 04:52 PM

All bets are off.

Gravdigr · 01-31-2019, 10:15 AM

Don't bet on it.

Glinda · 01-31-2019, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

They seem to have reversed EVERY non-symmetrical letter. I wonder if there was some sort of engraving system involved, where an inscription in one clay tablet could be dried out, and then pressed on another clay tablet to copy it.

This link implies that (at least sometimes) archaic Latin/greek was written right-to-left. The hardened engravings would travel better, but be reversed, while the soft clay ones would be considered more disposable.

Of course this makes total sense.

But I think it's more likely that the Romans was just a bunch'a lazy, syphilitic bitches.

xoxoxoBruce · 02-01-2019, 05:58 AM

Wes Anderson's

01-28-2019, 01:15 AM	#1
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01-28-2019, 11:09 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Damifino, where is a betabet? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-28-2019, 11:25 AM	#4
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	What's the "too" at the bottom? It doesn't seem to be in the original. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

01-28-2019, 12:15 PM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The waw in Proto-Sinaitic evolved into the F and also the U. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

01-28-2019, 12:20 PM	#6
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	heh __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

01-28-2019, 09:29 AM	#2
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	What is a Betabet?

01-28-2019, 04:41 PM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	neat __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-28-2019, 04:42 PM	#9
Glinda Fucktard Resistance League Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: 1.14 acres of heaven Posts: 1,512	It's interesting to me that the Romans seem to have reversed (flipped left to right) many letters to suit their own devices. Uncreative bastards!!

01-28-2019, 05:27 PM	#10
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	They seem to have reversed EVERY non-symmetrical letter. I wonder if there was some sort of engraving system involved, where an inscription in one clay tablet could be dried out, and then pressed on another clay tablet to copy it. This link implies that (at least sometimes) archaic Latin/greek was written right-to-left. The hardened engravings would travel better, but be reversed, while the soft clay ones would be considered more disposable. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

01-30-2019, 03:08 PM	#11
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	I was hoping to get to the end of it with a Zetabet. Only to discover there is an Etabet and Thetabet. Iota hope it eventually gets resolved.

01-30-2019, 04:52 PM	#12
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	All bets are off.

01-31-2019, 10:15 AM	#13
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02-01-2019, 05:58 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Wes Anderson's Attached Images __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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