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The tablet was unearthed in Georgia (country), not Georgia (U.S. state).
by Polizeiposaune 2y ago
The tablet was unearthed in Georgia (country), not Georgia (U.S. state).
- khaki54 2y agoDecent gag that baits my click every time
- deadbabe 2y agoWould have been far more interesting and mysterious if it was Georgia (U.S. state).
- mometsi 2y agoWould have been far more interesting and mysterious if it was Georgia (outer Main Belt asteroid).
- Iwan-Zotow 2y agoyou forgot South Georgia
- all2 2y agoWhat if it was all three at nearly the same time?
- NetOpWibby 2y agoThe mind boggles
- Iwan-Zotow 2y agoAdd South Georgia to make it four
- GauntletWizard 2y agoNot really, Georgia (U.S. State) has a history of modern-manufactured stone tablets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
- shiroiushi 2y agoWhat a colossal waste of money and effort. The person or people who wasted their money on this project should have known better than to erect such a thing in the deep South. From the Wikipedia article: "Some locals referred to its construction as 'the devil's work'. A local minister warned that "occult groups" would visit the site and that a sacrifice was imminent." Even worse: "Kandiss Taylor, a candidate in the 2022 Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary, called the Guidestones "Satanic" in a campaign ad" With local culture this backwards, you can't expect something like this to last for long.
- dboreham 2y agoDevil left it there when he last went down.
- spacecadet 2y agoI heard he was lookin' for a soul to steal...
- thrill 2y agoIt's an after action report of a fiddling contest he lost.
- cozzyd 2y agoOr South Georgia
- ianburrell 2y agoIt would be nice if the Georgians requested changing country name to Sakartvelo, the local name. It would be longer but less confusing.
- drdec 2y agoRequested of who? I don't think we need to wait around for people to ask us to start calling their country what they call it.
- Polizeiposaune 2y agoPerhaps these folks at the UN: https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/ https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/ who maintain a list of names for countries, with both long form and short form in 6 different languages.
- walrus01 2y agoIt's less confusing if you understand its name in Farsi, which is Gorgistan. The regional neighbors of it all have unique names for it that don't overlap with the US state.
- cvhc 2y agoAnd a stone tablet, not a tablet computer. As an ESL speaker, my first impression was "a tablet computer displaying unknown language found in Georgia, US". Feels like some extraterrestrial technology.
- binary132 2y agoGeorgia (King George) not Georgia (st. George)
- onlypassingthru 2y agoIf it's old, it would have to be. NA natives had no written languages.
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