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⟨egg⟩ * _i-na_ A.AB.BA
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⟨egg⟩ (The Akkadian is somewhat sumerogram-heavy.)
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⟨vevladdd⟩ ⟪egg⟫ (The Akkadian is somewhat […] ⮪ Like Japanese write (mostly) Chinese characters but read them in Japanese ways?
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⟨Al₂Me₆⟩ (‘Mostly’ would generally be an exaggeration.)
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⟨egg⟩ Yes. But the characters used syllabically are the same; so more like man’yōgana than modern Japanese.
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⟨Al₂Me₆⟩ > man’yōganaTIL. This is extremely trippy to read as a Chinese person.
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⟨Al₂Me₆⟩ * Excerpts of this are extremely trippy to read as a Chinese speaker.
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Except when the characters are read in a nominally Chinese way, but with the heaviest Japanese accent you can imagine
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(音読み vs 訓読み are fun, and definitely won't cost you SAN points when you start seeing all the exceptions to the rules)
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⟨egg⟩ By the way, the Hittites picked up this writing system. They had sumerograms _and_ akkadograms.
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⟨egg⟩ So that, for instance, the Hittite word daššu (heavy) could be written _da-aš-šu_ 𒁕𒀸𒋗, or _KAB-TU_ 𒆏𒌅 since kabtu means heavy in Akkadian, or DUGUD 𒂂 which means heavy in Sumerian.
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⟨Al₂Me₆⟩ Would all three be pronounced the same way?
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⟨egg⟩ yes.
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Some days it feels like consistent orthography wasn't even attempted before ~1850
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⟨egg⟩ Note that the case and italicizing conventions in transliteration are not actually there in the text; the same ŠU sign 𒋗 could be used in an akkadogram or in a sumerogram (it means hand in sumerian).
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⟨ragoozerman⟩ how do i know if my install of principia is working?
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⟨test_account9540⟩ No error messages, no crashes, principia toolbar button showing up and opening principia window, navball looking as if principia is installed, map view looking as if principia is installed...
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⟨ragoozerman⟩ yea ty it works im pretty sure
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⟨butcher6994⟩ Yes
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⟨butcher6994⟩ The calico above is my actual cat
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⟨theodorekaczynski⟩ I seem to have that problem as well
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Not fostering though, we just have 6 cats
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⟨Kobymaru⟩ ⟪egg⟫ No calculator, but there are pinned […] ⮪ Is there a version of "Inclination-eccentricity diagrams for dummies"? do I want this esin value to be as low as possible or close to zero?