Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language
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Sounds like a bunch of commie gobbledygook. The rest of the article is interesting. I love language learning, and ancient civilizations fascinate me.
>Watar was for instance Hittite for “water”. Duttar was the main part of the Hittite word for “daughter”. “Wine” was wiyana, while card was “heart/cardiac” and newa was their word for “new”.
This is so cool! But then I see trendy crap like this:
>traditions could be preserved and incorporated into the empire’s highly inclusive multicultural religious system.
and I wonder how much I am being informed vs. how much I am being "informed". Do the authors/researchers need to throw in CURRENTYEAR political jargon to get paid?
Sorry, I'm being coy. Your "pantsuit" dig is clearly an attempt to associate multiculturalism with femininity, and therefore weakness. Does that make you feel superior?
Oh, and as I'm reading about this empire (history really isn't my forté), it seems that the claim you find "preposterous" is extremely well documented. Ho hum.
The cool new discovery is that this well-known ancient multicultural society managed to preserve historical records of a language that was previously unkown. And who knows, maybe their women wore pants.
He did die in battle against women who would not submit to his will though.
Why do people like you always sound like stereotypes from a 1960s sitcom?
In general you would be right, but in this case you are likely wrong.
This civilization was specifically known for this, evidenced by their flexible religion that added and mutated the nature of Gods to bring diverse regions into the fold.