Jokes, Part I: Sumer Funny, Sumer Not
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The Sumerian Tablets
Just about every sumerian tablet ever recovered, including the ones with those juvenile proverbs, they were written by juveniles. There are no real adult editions of e of simerian literature. So all the stuff we have is just ancient practice writing. This is not t v sa ti. It's ike ican ait. It's la, it's aca. When bart simpson, at the beginning of the simpsons is writing the same thing on the chalk board over and over. Yes, this feels like a particularly important revelation. Like eight year old ben may have been more interested in latin if he were copying proverbs about turds and brothels
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