Party trick
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In the pub on Friday night, someone in our group came up with a great party trick. He’s a bona fide Egyptologist, and was getting lots of requests to write people’s names out in hieroglyphics. You can see the translation of my name to the left. If there are any other Egyptologists in the house, I’ve just blown my anonymity. Or you might be thinking that ‘get bent’ is a funny name for a woman. One of the benefits of having specialist knowledge is that the majority of people don’t know when you’re talking—or writing—absolute tosh.
p. From now on, I will be the biologist formerly known as ‘test tube in a Petri dish - vulture - half horizon - reed - Wellington boot with slug crawling in denoting female name’. It’s possible that some of my interpretations of the pictograms might be a bit off.
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Kinda tosh probably, yes, but fun I think. Nice name though.----- Somewhere I do have a "teach yourself hieroglyphics" book, from my archaeology days. As I mostly specialised in Scottish archaeology, though, I never bothered to learn any.
by Caitlin @ 13/10/2003 8:10 pm • Permalink •
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OK, so I've been deciphering it, and I must admit I'm surprised: I would have never put you down for an Engelbert!
Especially as that's a man's name.
by David (TEFL Smiler) @ 14/10/2003 12:10 am • Permalink •
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I thought Bsag was already an Egyptian name
by pete @ 14/10/2003 7:10 am • Permalink •
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By comparing the Egyptian with the whois for the domain I can learn hieroglyphics. Fantastic
by RobH @ 14/10/2003 1:10 pm • Permalink •
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Fisher: Thanks! Not that I can claim any credit for it.
Caitlin: Didn't the Picts use some kind of pictographs? Maybe I imagined that.
David & Pete:
RobH: Ooo, that's cheating! I'm glad to provide a rather niche educational service, though
by bsag @ 15/10/2003 8:11 pm • Permalink •
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