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Lingua Obscura, Video Electives
The word barbarian was coined by the Greeks to cover all people who didn’t speak Greek.
“That which is secret and mysterious,” he wrote, “calling for acute intelligence to penetrate its meaning, has always exercised a great fascination on the human mind.”
I was taken into a Form Room and told to sit at a desk. All the other boys were out of doors, and I was alone with the Form Master.
b’ejekoteem = caminar llevando muchas cosas dentro de la ropa = to walk carrying many things underneath one’s clothes
Here’s one of my favorite cuneiform letters translated to English. It’s a letter written by a boy who was away at boarding school…
