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Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." As a kid who could read Phoenician script (similar t
by sam_goody 5y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
As a kid who could read Phoenician script (similar to ancient Hebrew), I tried to decipher the Ashmanezer tablet, which is written in a Semitic language and has many proper nouns. Despite that, there were different ways to interpret the inscription. Taught me just how amazing and difficult language is.
(In the Wikipedia page[1], there is one translation given as though it is empirical. It's not.)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshmunazar_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshmunazar_II