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I can't help but point out that as someone who went to college for journalism and graphic design in the early 90s, and had to lay out galleys using strips of wo

I can't help but point out that as someone who went to college for journalism and graphic design in the early 90s, and had to lay out galleys using strips of words and a razor blade, let me assure this isn't the hard way. Correcting a missing apostrophe or manually adding a hyphen while not throwing off an entire line requires both an eye for kerning and a steady hand. Get off my lawn.

stavros 2y ago
Oh yeah? You youngsters have it easy, you don't know what it means to have to throw away the whole tablet and start again when your chisel slips. The Pharaoh was not amused, I'll tell you that much.
- Someone 2y ago
  Impostor! Clay tablets where written in wet clay, so you didn’t use a chisel and didn’t have to throw away the tablet when your stylus slipped. At worst, you’d erase the entire tablet, but you likely could erase a small part often tablet. Many tablets even could be recycled after the pharaoh read them (could pharaohs even read?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet: “Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. Other tablets, once written, were either deliberately fired in hot kilns, or inadvertently fired when buildings were burnt down by accident or during conflict, making them hard and durable”
  - hinkley 2y ago
    But I thought a lot of the tablets we have were from trash piles and they seem to have typos. So who is the impostor here? <grabs the top of your head> Old Man Withers!?
- nick3443 2y ago
  Try having your finger slip and smudge a buffalo drawing. You have to find a whole new cave to draw in!

stavros 2y ago

Oh yeah? You youngsters have it easy, you don't know what it means to have to throw away the whole tablet and start again when your chisel slips. The Pharaoh was not amused, I'll tell you that much.

Someone 2y ago
Impostor! Clay tablets where written in wet clay, so you didn’t use a chisel and didn’t have to throw away the tablet when your stylus slipped. At worst, you’d erase the entire tablet, but you likely could erase a small part often tablet. Many tablets even could be recycled after the pharaoh read them (could pharaohs even read?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet: “Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. Other tablets, once written, were either deliberately fired in hot kilns, or inadvertently fired when buildings were burnt down by accident or during conflict, making them hard and durable”
- hinkley 2y ago
  But I thought a lot of the tablets we have were from trash piles and they seem to have typos. So who is the impostor here? <grabs the top of your head> Old Man Withers!?
nick3443 2y ago
Try having your finger slip and smudge a buffalo drawing. You have to find a whole new cave to draw in!