From a thread asking opinions about emoji usage.

However it happens and whomever is responsible here we are... and we're losing ground fast. And things like emojis are leading the charge.

Should we tell them @WhyEssEff@hexbear.net is responsible?

Link: https://hexbear.net/comment/4277133

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Then Cuneiform was like "Hey, waht if we took simple arrangements of dashes and triangles and made them in to a completely illegible cluttered mess?

    Saw an older biker looking guy with some viking tattoos and I was trying to sus out if he was fashy, then saw the cuneiform tattoo and was like "Oh, he's just a history dork we're cool". He had some pagan stuff on, too, but it was a mixture of older new-agey stuff that you don't really see on the fashy neo-thoraboos.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Then Cuneiform was like "Hey, waht if we took simple arrangements of dashes and triangles and made them in to a completely illegible cluttered mess?

      nerd Sumerian cuneiform might slightly predate predate hieroglyphics, and is ugly because of the limitations of the medium. Digging out the book I have about this:

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      David Burton - The History of Mathematics An Introduction (2005)

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Cuneiform was literally also just pictures at first, and then evolved to more abstract shapes dictated by the use of clay tablet as medium, pushing wedges is way easier than drawing on it, and good scribe could do that surprisingly fast.

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      And if you think about it: writing above word "head" in cuneiform is 7 moves of the hand. Writing "head" in english is also 7 moves. Writing the same word "głowa" in polish is 9 moves.

      here you have video showing few things and tricks about cuneiform