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Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian Translator Created
DrJackson writes "A new online translator that can translate Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian and Egyptian hieroglyphics (1 of the 3 types anyway) has been developed. This is the first time I ever saw a translator for cuneiform. Something like this would be great for translating interesting historical records like the Amarna Letters."
wake me when they can do pnakotic
Does it support UTF-8? :)
Now I can finally find out what the capital of Assyria is! I hope its not "aaaarrrrhhhh"
"Something like this would be great for translating interesting historical records like the Amarna Letters."
God, I was just telling my friend Akakakakallatatatmah the exact same thing today! weird.
for the unfortunate translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh that rival the hilarity of the google translation of the japanese amazon site.
Zecharia Sitchin's money making scheme...
Will it translate casting liquified limestone correctly?
I swear, that was the funniest damn thing I've seen on slashdot.
LOAD "SIG",8,1
LOADING...
READY.
RUN
I've been meaning to write a 'Hello world' Nam-shub...
IMPORTANT, can somebody translate this for me, A.S.A.P.??
"Good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County, and State of New York, I order you to cease any, and all, supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin, or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension."
You idiotic anonymous coward!
The Pnakotic Manuscripts were an invention of H.P. Lovecraft and factor into the Cthulhu Mythos. Besides, everyone knows the origin of Mankind lies within the information from the Elder Gods.
And don't even get me started on Sumerian. Professional Sumerologists still can't render half of the agglutinative morphemes that appear in Sumerian verbs. I definitely agree with you on translating difficulties. When your last sentence was translated into English, most of it came out as gibberish!
CATS/Diebold '08- All your vote are belong to us!
Did someone say Sumerian?
I hear they recently translated a speech by some Governor, addressing a San Francisco parade during a recent California primary election stop...
[...]
Candidate - Open immigration, mass transit, relief of property taxes at your doorstep, and windmills instead of coal.
Mayor - Wrong! Governor! What is best in life?
Governor - To brush your enemies, see them drivel before you, and to wear the garmentation of the women.
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
"It says, 'bird, camel, Horus, snake, bundle of reeds!' "
I am a believer of momentum and curves.
Pffft. That's because they don't have DirectX 10 on Vista, which has had agglutinative morpheme rendering for like forever already.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
What do you mean? I can speak fluently in several ancient languages. I happen to be an expert at COBOL.
You insensitive clod! All I wanted for Christmas was for Cthulhu to awaken and eat my boss. I didn't get it, and now you call Him a myth!
It doesn't even have a translation for "cheezburger", let alone "bukkit"...
Bird bird eye feather snake bird squiggly, you insensitive clod!
in my everyday life. Now if they one day invent one that can translate nonsense english into real english I'd be in heaven.
Cool idea though. Wonder if it works, all my texts are in living langaguges. STDK
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I translate all my witnesses with the aid of google. It works large! I do not see that what the problem is. Nobody can dreaming that I am using a translator less that says they.
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I knew someone would have to translate it. :) ... its like waving a red rag in front of a bull ;)
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