• andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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    19 hours ago

    What about one where Sumer wins, 𒈗?

    Actually, I guess weirdos on Facebook already think that Sumer did ancient aliens stuff.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 hours ago

      It’s more often the other way around: Aliens came to the Sumerians. Read with a certain lense, the Sumerian creation myth sounds like genetic manipulation. Wake up. I met a guy like this in real life once

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          12 hours ago

          I had a little bit of contact with Sumerian myself in university (you might have guess from my username). I was in the Applied Computer Linguistics group in a project that translated Sumerian into English (with AI but before it was cool). The takeaway was that it’s too little data to really train the neurol network properly but since most of the tablets were just which king owns how much cattle and stuff, it could handle it (I, for the record, don’t own any cattle)

          I sadly didn’t learn too much about Sumerian. I know it’s highly agglutinative and a language isolate. We had an Old Orientalist in the team and it was always cool to hear about and see cuneiform and how it developed over time and was used differently in different languages

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          15 hours ago

          It’s enough to make one believe in the power of the nam-shub of Enki, amirite?