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- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -1/+16Those look like divorce settlements. I can make out a little bit of text from the script on the right, it reads "the 15 cows go to the wife, as well as all the chickens, and sheep. The wife also gets to keep the kids, in which the husband may visit every other weekend."
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -0/+13
Darwin was about the evolution of species as it pertains to cellular biology. Any attempts to use Darwinism to explain anything beyond that (language, economics, politics, etc) is an inevitable failure.
Please understand that. - wem003, on 05/28/2009, -1/+14They all say some form of "So long and thanks for all the fish..."
- mekura, on 05/28/2009, -3/+13The article on one page:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227106.000 ...
Also, I'm disappointed they didn't mention the Voynich Manuscript, which isn't ancient, but was an amazing creation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript - KyleGoetz, on 05/28/2009, -1/+8I have a friend who is doing her graduate research on the Minoan scripts. It's really interesting, the story of the guy who cracked Linear B.
- WordsnCollision, on 05/27/2009, -3/+10The lesson? Don't dig (or digg) Greasemonkey scripts.
- dstz, on 05/28/2009, -0/+6Interesting, thanks. But as you hint yourself, there is a world of difference (in context and role) between those culturally used scripts and a personal creation/cipher.
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4What might sound clever and mysterious to someone without a clue, may sound trivial to a more knowledgable expert. Without the ability to mask your own long-ingrained language and education in your "gibberish" symbols, the etymology would be more easily pinpointed, then enventually decoded, or indeed debunked as complete gibberish.
- miltlim, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4Maybe It's just me, but I just think it would be awesome if some ancient civilization had a sense of humor, and wrote on one of the scripts "You actually took the time to decrypt this? Niiiiice."
- GlassAgate, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4http://www.omniglot.com/
"Writing Systems and Languages of the World"
For anyone interested in languages, living and dead ones, check this out. - TetchyTony, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Might be true of Rongo-Rongo, a kind of 'cargo cult' based on native viewing of books brought and chanted by explorers? So you can't 'turn the page' on driftwood? Then turn the log. Insert joke about 'Kindling'.
- Cannonballkid, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1I did a lot of reading on Linear A in college. Our professor told us for this language to be deciphered would be more luck than anything. We have nothing to compare it to and on top of that the people who wrote in this script seemingly vanished. It's my understanding that 2-3 characters are similar to Linear B but that is it. Unfortunately its not enough to render a proper translation. All in all I'm glad to see articles like this make it to digg.
- Spoomeister, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1IT'S ALL PORN
- suinmind, on 05/28/2009, -1/+2#1 "cant be read": prescriptions
- jezsik, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1Whoa ... I guess a lot of people don't know who Feynman was. Pity.
- asgardshill, on 05/28/2009, -1/+2Perhaps somebody will finally decrypt the fourth and final section of the Kryptos script at CIA Headquarters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos - onegoodsoul, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Odd, they just say "HeadOn - Apply directly to the forehead." over and over and over....
- computrius, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Does that piss anyone else off when there is a link for a larger image but all it does is open a popup window where the image is the same size?
- Lonandubh, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Gorramit! Now i'm going to have to try to decrypt one of these. *Sighs* well, at least i'll be able to give my computer something more interesting to do at night than torrent...
- jezsik, on 05/28/2009, -3/+2It's a pity Richard Feynman isn't around. I bet he'd be able to figure them out.
- BarrettAnderson, on 05/28/2009, -6/+5Interesting... 6 of the 8 were written in perl.
- Yarkz, on 05/28/2009, -3/+3What if someone who had no clue what they were doing wrote some of these and in reality it was complete gibberish?
- dstz, on 05/28/2009, -3/+1So research related to extinct animals has nothing to do with Darwinism either, I guess? i mean, it would be an affront to itself wouldn't it.
- hsbsitez, on 05/28/2009, -4/+1Luke. I am your father.
- melikbilge, on 05/28/2009, -4/+1The article seems to be missing 4chan-speak. You can only take so much of "OMGF MOARRR SAUCE... FAP FAP".
- D3koy, on 05/28/2009, -4/+1Jeez, how did these people pass 2nd grade with handwriting that bad...
- dVerge, on 05/28/2009, -5/+1Civilizations.
- kstein1110, on 05/28/2009, -6/+2I thought this was going to be about a bunch of clever computer scientists. Ha
- phybere, on 05/28/2009, -6/+2Anyone else click this expecting some obscure lisp code?
- yearofglad, on 05/28/2009, -5/+0Obligatory Codex Seraphinianus mention.
- devilgoob, on 05/28/2009, -6/+0this is stupid and it's getting buried
- PandaBearShenyu, on 05/28/2009, -10/+3The seventh script comprises solely of variations on the phrase "How iz babby formed?"
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -8/+1I like Jello.
- DulcetTone, on 05/28/2009, -13/+1A civilization whose written language has remained this current does not, perhaps, merit the research. It's an affront to Darwinism to breath life into the extinct.
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