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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Walk symbol is doing the Chad Stride

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Proof that ancient aliens visited our ancestors to give them advanced Brazilian butt lift technology

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

射 (shoot) also means blast loads btw, so it belongs on the top row with poop and pee and butt

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I once went to some cave with some ancient American Indian painting on it when I was in the Boy Scouts.

Some looked like dicks, and I joked with my Troop that I wonder if this "ancient sacred artifact sites" were actually just Paleo-Indian teenagers drawing dicks and asses on the cave walls while bored one night.

I think my theory still holds.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Human nature doesn't change" is often used as a thought-terminating cliche to justify the status quo but I think this is an actual case of it

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Teenagers be getting bored and doing shenanigans" is probably one of the safer and less harmful assumptions about human society throughout history.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

it's more reasonable to assume that the meaning and context of those images was totally different than to project our own onto them. think about how much of our society there is in a teen drawing a dick on a wall. wall-drawing is forbidden. there's even a special word for it that associates it with a countercultural art, if distantly. dicks are obscene and hidden, but nevertheless fascinating. teens are uniquely expected to both obey social rules and submit to the will of others. there's no reason to take any of this as a given for early native american societies.

[–] mkkhan@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago

The dance symbol predicted Thriller????

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

not worth the massive L of having to memorize thousands of symbols to read anything worthwhile instead of maybe ~80, and we could get that number down too.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I spent 7 years learning Japanese and 1 year learning Italian and I'm better at Spanish than Japanese. I have never taken Spanish.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

smh latin dialects acting like they're separate languages

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I swear every supposed major difference between words boils down to "here we only say how are you" and "here we only say salutations"

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is also the fact that it doesn't seem possible in such languages to have a good estimation for the pronunciation of newly-encountered 'words' (lexemes? I don't remember linguistics well enough to be precise and accurate here) without looking it up or asking about it.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not worth the massive L of having to trawl through books to learn anything worthwhile when chatGPT can tell you what you want to know in ~80 words, and we could get that number down too

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Showering is when you pee and poo while riding on a butt.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh my god 尸 is a human body (body as in corpse) bent over, 米 is rice, and 水 is water.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago
[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Ok, but why is the rainbow being held up by 2 ducks? Is that how rainbows used to work back in the day? I want my double duck rainbows back!

[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

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