Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 84950)

Did you really just call yourself a ding-a-ling? That's funny.

I did a junior high project on cunieform. I had to write a paper, but you got extra credit if you provided a visual aid. So I bought a ton of play-do and rolled it out really thin and then used a wedge (it was actually a tupperware orange peeler) to make the characters.

man I was a nerd.

Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 84951)

Afterwards, to prove we weren't nerds, we drank the rum we made in organic chemistry through the process of distillation. It was strong stuff.

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 84952)

A real rebel, huh? I never in a million years would have done that. But there was a guy in my biology class that used the bunsen burner to fry part of his fetal pig dissection, and then he ate it. I think he was trying to impress the girls.

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 84952)

A real rebel, huh? I never in a million years would have done that. But there was a guy in my biology class that used the bunsen burner to fry part of his fetal pig dissection, and then he ate it. I think he was trying to impress the girls.

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon (Post 84952)

A real rebel, huh? I never in a million years would have done that. But there was a guy in my biology class that used the bunsen burner to fry part of his fetal pig dissection, and then he ate it. I think he was trying to impress the girls.

Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 84949)

after I read the Legends of Gilgamesh from the translation of seven translators, I wondered what Akkadian looked like. Cunieform means wedge-shaped, but the rules governing their use are very arcane and complex.

In other words, I was sorry I inquired.

http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/Welcome_list.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkadian_language

Actually it looks quite Arabic and somewhat Hebraic, IOW, quite complex.