2010-09-04

Battle of Megiddo



I'm pretty sure they didn't speak Arabic in 15th century b.c Egypt.
Posted by T.C.

8 comments:

  1. Unknown9/05/2010

    I feel ripped off for watching the whole thing and not understand what the hell you're talking about.

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  2. T.C.9/05/2010

    ?

    And.

    Are you ever happy?

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  3. Unknown9/05/2010

    Explain yourself, sir!

    I spent 15 minutes in addition to watching this trying to see if I missed something, and all I came up with was that Egyptian was indeed not a Semitic language (therefore not linguistically linked to Arabic). But... I'm still confused.

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  4. Unknown9/05/2010

    Oh, and I was happy, once...

    *looks off in the distance*

    ...but that was a long time ago.

    *cue wood winds*

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  5. T.C.9/05/2010

    I'm rarely happy. Bitter really. Love to drink bitter too. Love bitter vegetables as well.

    I dunno. I'm just saying I doubt the Egyptians spoke the Arabic we hear in the video.

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  6. Unknown9/05/2010

    OOOOOOOOOOOOOH. I didn't think about that. They're speaking Arabic? I thougbt it had something to do with "Megiddo" being where the end of the world's battle would take place, so I was distracted for a while by that.

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  7. potsoc9/05/2010

    You are quite right about that, just as the Romans did not speak today's Italian nor the Athenians today's Greek. Even the Arabs do not speak the Arabic of that time and Aramean is a dead language as is Slavon the liturgical language of the Serbs, Russians, etc.
    Nobody anywhere speaks the language as spoken 4 ooo years ago.

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  8. T.C.9/05/2010

    Don't blog and drive, kids.

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