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your neighbors, the swarm

@hannah if it’s from really long ago you do start to need a conversion process but it’s much more forgiving than old data

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Stygian Lizard

@bugsong @hannah I found The Invisible Man hard to read, which tells you just how quickly phrases change. (On the contrary, I Am Legend was a breeze despite it being written around the same time.)

Cainmark 🚲

They are approximately 50 years apart.

Phrases used to take 10 to 20 years to change.

Now it's 6 months to a year.

"It's totally rad to not be hep to jive gabbing if'n that's negative to y'alls lookout. "

Stygian Lizard

@cainmark also, you're right, the copy of IM I have was printed more recently. I mistook that date as the copyright. That explains so much, and I'm glad I brought it up so it could be clarified.

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@bugsong @hannah Yeah, but it's more like reading Pascal code when you're only used to C++. You can still read it, it just takes a little time to adapt.

kindly shopkeeper

@bugsong @Natanox@chaos.socia i took a selfie in front of that

Me in front of the ea nasir tablet
your neighbors, the swarm

@hannah also, i found out that nanni’s complaint wasn't an isolated incident when looking up this pic, and i had to share that

wikipedia exerpt:

Other tablets
Other tablets have been found in the ruins believed to be Ea-nāṣir's dwelling. These include a letter from a man named Arbituram who complained he had not received his copper yet, while another said he was tired of receiving bad copper.
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