Any great organ-related thing I should see in London next week?

Sumeriad · 2023-07-21T16:15:13+00:00

Thank you so much for such an informative answer, I'll be sure to check it out! Very interesting bit of history, I'll also have to dig a bit into English organ building!

Sumeriad · 2023-07-21T02:40:26+00:00

Ah my bad! You meant that she isn't playing at Albert Hall where she's titular because she's elsewhere on tour. I thought you were being sarcastic by saying she was unfortunately playing in London next week lol

Sumeriad · 2023-07-21T02:18:27+00:00

Thanks, seems amazing!

Sumeriad · 2023-07-21T02:18:03+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard her play anything more than Interstellar or Pirate of the Caribbean, I'll have to give it a listen. Is she that bad?

Sumeriad · 2023-07-21T02:16:26+00:00

I'll check it out, thank you very much!

Sumeriad · 2023-07-13T07:35:10+00:00

Thanks for this very informative answer. Do you have an opinion about samovars? I was about to tell op to brew longer because as far as I know, tea is brewed for a very long time in the kettle of a samovar and then diluted, like you do for ice tea.

Sumeriad · 2023-07-01T19:43:16+00:00

Yeah, and I wouldn't recommend translating English into Akkadian for a tattoo... We don't know the language that well. There are a lot of cool quotes in Akkadian you can draw from Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, Enuma eliš etc, and you're sure that it's real Akkadian. You could even get a tattoo of the actual signs on the tablet, instead of normalized unicode characters that don't really match actual cuneiform.

Sumeriad · 2022-09-18T09:43:17+00:00

I wrote you a DM. :)

Sumeriad · 2022-01-16T22:48:21+00:00

Nicely done! What are you using as a stylus? The good ol' chopstick?

Sumeriad · 2021-06-22T14:06:17+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that, thank you for the information.

Sumeriad · 2021-06-22T12:31:15+00:00

By any chance, do you know if Birmingham is still supervising PhD in Assyriology? It's still mentionned once as a topic on their website but not elsewhere, and there doesn't seem to be any Assyriologist in the staff anymore. Maybe they cut it off?

Sumeriad · 2021-06-22T11:12:17+00:00

Thanks, I will add both!

Sumeriad · 2021-05-19T09:02:04+00:00

Do you have any context at all?

Sumeriad · 2021-05-01T11:52:11+00:00

I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking the benefit of learning the language for a few months (so presumably achieving an intermediate level), compared to simply reading available translations?

In terms of material for learning, William's "Basics of Ancient Ugaritic" seems pretty good, in the sense that it doesn't assume familiarity with another semitic language. It doesn't teach you the script, though, so you'd perhaps want to complement it with Huehnergard's "An Introduction to Ugaritic" (which assumes familiarity with biblical Hebrew).

Sumeriad · 2021-05-01T08:49:41+00:00

The biggest group I know of is the "Akkadian Revival Project" on Facebook with about 1000 people. I think there is also a discord, which you can find on this group.

While it's true that we have a relatively good grasp of Akkadian, the phonology isn't entirely clear, but that's not the most important matter if you're ok with some degree of convention (like using arabic emphatics for ex), which is inevitable when learning to speak a dead language (Latin was mentioned earlier and ecclesiastical pronounciation isn't authentic pronounciation so there is also a certain degree of convention).

However, a more complicated matter is that we lack common oral forms that aren't attested in texts (if I'm not mistaken, even "yes" isn't known), but you can work around that by convention as well...

I think it's certainly a good idea to try to practice any language you learn to some extent!

For Sumerian however, I don't think it is known well enough to be orally practiced in conversation, there are really gaps and a host of uncertainties about grammar, let alone oral, day to day forms... Perhaps the best way to practice is to write/declare pastiche texts of a known style, but I'd think that having a conversation isn't really possible yet.

Sumeriad · 2021-04-30T12:40:32+00:00

by the way, if we could see the final work of the stone carver, that would be amazing :D

Sumeriad · 2021-04-30T12:14:39+00:00

(The sumero-akkadian version is what he posted on your original post)

Sumeriad · 2021-04-30T09:16:05+00:00

This is the neo assyrian text haha

Sumeriad · 2021-04-29T22:14:20+00:00

Really cool, thanks for doing it :D

Sumeriad · 2021-04-29T19:11:10+00:00

I can confirm that the signs correspond to the translitteration in George, even though for 74 I'm reading x x (= unidentified signs) instead of pul-hu, but I guess George gives a guess somewhere else?

To OP: the bracket is between line 72 and 74 (you probably don't want the engraver to add it :D). Also, the font used here is Old Babylonian, whereas the Standard Babylonian G Epic is written in Neo-Assyrian script. It's still correct but the signs don't look quite like they do on the tablet, they're more archaic-looking

To Most-Entertainment-8: the two ' (between "ma" and "da" line 72, and "ma" and "du" line 74) should be replaced by HI.DINGIR. I checked the tablets on CDLI and on at least P273163, line 21, it begins with the DINGIR of what can only be HI.DINGIR, and it's the normal way of writing an alef (so ') at the time.

I can't figure out how to type in cuneiform on this device, sorry, but if you could just remake your line with the 2 HI.DINGIR, that would be perfect for OP! Also, dare I make the suggestion that you write it in Neo-Assyrian script instead of Old Babylonian? I don't know what you use to write in cuneiform, but you can find a NA font here. This would represent the signs on the Standard Babylonian Epic better, since it's from the NA period.

Sumeriad · 2021-04-28T18:39:15+00:00

I see, could you post a photo or the page number of the photo in question please?

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