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> "seeing the handwriting on the wall." I've known that phrase for...I don't even know how long. But I only learned yesterday that its origin was Biblical. I l
by jogjayr 9y ago
> "seeing the handwriting on the wall."
I've known that phrase for...I don't even know how long. But I only learned yesterday that its origin was Biblical. I love how Dan Carlin says "mene mene tekel upharsin" and wanted to read more about it, and made that happy discovery.
- Natsu 9y agoAhh, but actually the 'u' at the start of the 4th word is how they wrote 'and' so it's not clear it would've been written on the wall :) Yeah, there are a lot of things like that which people have forgotten the origins of...