Sumerian Dogs and Taverns

Twitter user serenan who claims to be a Sumerologist says that the word estam which means tavern can be associated with prostitution but it's not primarily a buffalo they eat and drink their two so it could be sexual. The problem with these proverbs is that they are attested in proverb collections with absolutely no context so very often we don't really understand what they're aboutWhat the punchline is if there was any an added problem is that most of the extant manuscripts date back to the old babelonian period when samarian had already died out as a spoken language. So regardless of what other people think the joke might be about there is every chance that a dog walked into a

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