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> Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multicul
by ToDougie 3y ago
> Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability.
Sounds like a bunch of commie gobbledygook. The rest of the article is interesting. I love language learning, and ancient civilizations fascinate me.
>Watar was for instance Hittite for “water”. Duttar was the main part of the Hittite word for “daughter”. “Wine” was wiyana, while card was “heart/cardiac” and newa was their word for “new”.
This is so cool! But then I see trendy crap like this:
>traditions could be preserved and incorporated into the empire’s highly inclusive multicultural religious system.
and I wonder how much I am being informed vs. how much I am being "informed". Do the authors/researchers need to throw in CURRENTYEAR political jargon to get paid?
- s_weber 3y agoI seem to be missing something here. Which expressions are you referring to as being political jargon, and why? "Multicultural"?
- deciduously 3y agoMy money's on "inclusive". That concept seems like a particular bitter pill for some folks.
- thrawa8387336 3y agoIt's beyond preposterous to think that a long-forgotten empire had the same dreamy pantsuit-wearing aspirations to "multiculturalism" the authors have.
- klyrs 3y agoMulticulturalism has been a winning recipe for empire-building since at least Roman times. If it was a feature of the Hittite empire, would it really be that surprising? Perhaps it would, as you seem to believe that pants (of all things) were a necessary precursor, and the historical record for those only goes back to around 500BC. Sorry, I'm being coy. Your "pantsuit" dig is clearly an attempt to associate multiculturalism with femininity, and therefore weakness. Does that make you feel superior? Oh, and as I'm reading about this empire (history really isn't my forté), it seems that the claim you find "preposterous" is extremely well documented. Ho hum. The cool new discovery is that this well-known ancient multicultural society managed to preserve historical records of a language that was previously unkown. And who knows, maybe their women wore pants.
- tycho-newman 3y agoRoman times? It's even older. Cyrus the Great won over people by promising to honor their traditions. He did die in battle against women who would not submit to his will though.
- krapp 3y ago"dreamy pantsuit-wearing aspirations?" Why do people like you always sound like stereotypes from a 1960s sitcom?
- _kulang 3y agoIt’s beyond preposterous that you would be so adamantly sure that they wouldn’t. Assimilation might just have to be your favourite new word
- fooker 3y agoYou are exposing your ignorance here. In general you would be right, but in this case you are likely wrong. This civilization was specifically known for this, evidenced by their flexible religion that added and mutated the nature of Gods to bring diverse regions into the fold.
- matrix12 3y agoThe Hittites did not last that long...
- warkdarrior 3y agoAbout 500 years or so.. 1650-1190 according the Wikipedia. It seems like a significant duration.
- matrix12 3y agoCompared to their peers of the time?
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