Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Hieroglyphics

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Hieroglyphics

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

I’m carving this into the pyramids where it doesn’t belong, to throw archeologists for a loop

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The old fashioned English makes it sound way more formal than it probably was
- FishFace@piefed.social
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  Hieroglyphics were always formal language I thought
- KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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  I don’t know Egyptian, but I’m guessing that phrasing is somehow closer to the original? “Thy” is sometimes used in translations to emphasise that the original text used informal 2nd person pronouns

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