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Credit: YT Magnify @_magnify
At request of Imgurian OtterThatPotters
Yesterday's viral post:
Why some languages have curly letters. I was not expecting a lot of people to like such informative videos so these being viral made my day :)
https://imgur.com/gallery/1TzKtyt
BL1P
Path of Exile is awesome :)
SomeDetroitGuy
Cool and all but all I can think about is how much I want a gyro now.
spacebaIIstheaccount
For some reason I really hate it when people (who are not Michael from VSauce) speak with this weird cadence
Apeofdeath
SpammersAreScum
But that's not a sigma, it's a psi. I suppose he could have used "psick".
exbenedict
The loop is better on the one he did for loopy lettered languages,
HypnagogicHallucinations
You'd think that would be even more true for the stone tablets.
sowasvonsowas
Thanks for posting this!
killduhbatman
I just began Greek on Duolingo. I am over 140 days of Latin. I love these languages!!!
knubberrub
How is Duolingo? I am considering it.
killduhbatman
It’s very nice. In 5 or 10 minutes a day you learn a little bit. It builds up. You can knock it pit taking a poop. I just added German too. Just start with one language tho.
KilliK69
δεν βλέπω γωνίες εδώ.
UberGodzilla
I've taken courses in Greek epigraphy and Greek palaeography. There are tons of curvy letters in both, especially after the classical and late antique periods, respectively. In fact, later Greek palaeography is mostly cursive and full of ligatures and abbreviations. There are different fonts and scripts for different media and occasions. Sure, really old stuff, before techniques were refined, looks very straight and jagged, but that's just one of many styles.
Oblok
Nice loop. :)
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Personally I hate those loops to an irrational level.
Kastovin
Agreed, purely to trick people into watching on youtube shorts or tiktok or whatever. More loops = more views.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
I hate those loops to a rational level, I guess! I always block the channel when I see them. Even if I like the channel.
trinxter
that was a nice loop that looped nicely because
BooRidley
that was a nice loop that looped nicely because
lancell
YouTube shorts love to loop like that for some reason..
AussieInsects
If you dont notice the loop it counts as a second watch = more views
Gooooodmoooorrrningmuchwow
I blame tic tac
lancell
Damn you tak taks!!
notacobra
This guy has made a few of these, each is a gross oversimplification. The development of writing is far more convoluted and involved than simple theories like this. There's so much back and forth between different cultures and styles of fashion that became mainstream; periods where writing stuck with a style because literacy became more prevalent in that time etc. please take videos like this with an enormous grain of salt. At best they're misleading, at worst they're straight fanfiction.
UberGodzilla
Also, you can soften the wax in tablets pretty easily... that's how you erased them... could also soften to write on.
usernameblankityblank
As an academic, I should care about the misinformation, but the lover of fairy tales in me is gonna just roll with it.
PorneliusHubertII
The only information i will retain from this is that the greeks wrote on wax tablets. I assumed the origin of the style was BS.
aeolous16
Found it very funny that the whole thing is about "why Greek letters are mostly straight lines" and then the first clip he shows of the wax is half circular letters lol.
OldmanSerious
As I commented on yet another post (about curly south-east asian languages), the guy is describing SCRIPTS but calling them languages. The Roman alphabet is a script, used by many different languages. The Greek alphabet is pretty much used only in Greek. Mix the two together (and chuck in some other weird characters) and you get Cyrillic, used in a lot of Slavic languages. Scripts are not languages.
StellaMatutina
Yeah but it took longer than 60 seconds for your explanation that reached a 10th of the people and inspired no curiosity
Givemeyourworst
Its still misleading so whats ur point?
Grimmrog
but it is pretty common, that cultures having written also in clay and stone used simple streightlines. because you usually use the leats effort method of writing, trying to carve anything into some solid or haalf solid surface contaning arcs is PAIN. and round shapes are much easier to write than sharp ones with liquids, as it makes you write faster and more fluid. So that happened "naturally" when writing was adapted with ink/color
notacobra
The first known written language was carved into clay tablets and was full of both angular lines and curves, so maybe stop spouting fiction?
Grimmrog
No they did not, they were sumerian and had dots which were simply stamped in by 4ools
Sonicschilidogs
He literally said "May be"..... Like bro isn't even actually presenting this as fact, just a possibility why they letters of the time we're not more fluid in shape
cosonfused
may be it's because the aliens that taught them the script also used angular script. Like, I'm not even actually presenting this as fact, just a possibility.
Sonicschilidogs
Yeah, but you do understand how some possibilities are more plausible than others..... Like, fuck, maybe it was aliens, but clay seems more likely than that, and fuck, being derived from another parent language that utilized straight lines is EVEN MORE plausible than clay! Damn, crazy how this shit works
notacobra
It's presented as a plausible rationale, when that's objectively not true. He doesn't clarify or contextualise, instead be says "this may be the reason!" And then digs into a long explanation. It's intentionally misleading. Had he said "one of many contributing factors that sounds plausible to me", he'd be wrong but at least there'd be some context.
vanlifevagabond
Eh, easier to believe him than to google that shit. Besides. It's not like he's claiming a hospital as Hamas headquarters
CaptainScarfish
Skepticism is like a muscle. If you don't regularly exercise it, it'll atrophy and you'll fall for falsehoods on important topics.
MahadmaGaudi
Hamas would never do that
TyphoonMuscles
Not like it matters even if they did, that shit will get bombed anyway.
TheJuiceLoosener
You mean to tell me that there's additional details and context that I'm not getting from my 59-second Imgur PhD in Mycenaean Greek writing?!
notacobra
I mean to tell you that making massive, provably inaccurate generalisations and presenting them as fact is intentionally misleading and we should call out misinformation whenever we see it
TheJuiceLoosener
Glad someone is knives out for the ancient Greek writing techniques misinformation juggernaut. You've saved countless lives and scored a big win for truth today. Here's an upvote.
notacobra
"misinformation is bad unless it's tiktok videos, then it's fine because I'm the most sarcastic"
TheJuiceLoosener
Misinformation is intentionally devised to deceive. That's a frankly bizarre claim in this circumstance, and I think you're falling far short of your burden of proof. I'd like to stipulate to oversimplified, but you don't seem to be amenable to that.