I must remember its I9 not I19 or I get a crocodile's head instead of what I want!


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While I try and work out how you would say computer in Ancient Egyptian (I know its 'electric brain' in Chinese for example) here is a little cartoon I spotted while Googling for other things.


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Everyone Stargate-y on my flist is doing this meme thing where they offer to write fiction for the first ten people who reply. Now, I do write fiction, but not very well, and not very often, so I am offering to write something else ( Read more... )

Good - the AS Art  trip to NebAmun's tomb paintings at the British Museum yesterday went well despite me being stressed and out of my head a little. Having to deal with staffing problems back at base when you are travelling into central London on the tube, and your 2IC is having an arm waving fit over the mobile phone, is not the best start to the ( Read more... )

Oh dear ...  When they did that thing with the language coach who gave Daniel a strange German accent some people were able to spot it. Recently I have been involved in doing an on-the-fly translation of Middle Egyptian for a fiction sgbetty has been writing. I an not going to let on what its about (that is for her to say when she finally posts it) but ( Read more... )

When beatrice_otter left a comment on the meta I wrote on Shau're's funeral she said this:

'I'm about to write a short Sha're ficlet for a prompt. And I need to know what kind of title/honorific/name etc. would be used for her in formal situations. On Earth it would be "Mrs. Jackson"; what would it be on Abydos?'

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Talk about ever decreasing circles. I spent yesterday taking photos down at the British Museum because I wanted to get good examples of inscriptions for when I am talking about kinship words in hieroglyphs. Not to do into it in too much detail here, but you have mother, father, son, daughter, husband, wife etc and make up things like aunt by saying ( Read more... )

When I translate something into hieroglyphs for someone and thought I might stick it here ... might teach people a thing or to!


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