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" slumber in the Couch Islands which are located in the Mancave Archipelago! ;):cool: "

I like that bit of geography.
 
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"I've had a business idea to make jewelry where the Egyptian cartouche is populated with emojis rather than heiroglyphs. Someone's probably doing it already, but I think it'd be a hot seller."

No doubt--but the cartouche was originally used only for a royal name, and the modern jewelry that used some simplified version of the Egyptian alphabet to spell out names like Valerie or Theodore (no "V" or "Th" sounds or letters in Egyptian) winds up akin to those
beautiful Chinese tattoos people get that mean "soup". Better an English language rebus like on the old Concentration game show than emojis.
Emojis are sort of vague pictograms more similar to native American petroglyphs than really how Ancient Egyptian really worked.
And the majority of the papyri was written in hieratic, not hieroglyphs:
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So you see the written language is even more removed from the idea that hieroglyphs are simply pictograms like emojis.
 
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Yeah, language is a funny thing. I have many Pilipino friends here in Las Vegas, and back in LA. In Tagalog, there is no F sound. So somehow when the soldiers went to the Phillipines, they acquired the Ph or F sound, which they don't even have in their language. So to them it's the Pilipines and they're Pilipino. Not Flip anything..... so wars and domination and world conquest can influence language. Right??
 
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Most anything can influence a language. After Egypt was ruled by the Greeks in the Ptolemaic period Ancient Egyptian eventually became Coptic which uses a modified Greek alphabet, although some of the letters have a different phonetic value than their Greek equivalent. Languages become modified
by neighboring languages, at least in the use of borrowed words for objects but sometimes in grammatical structures. Romanian is basically a romance language, but because of its location is heavily influenced by Slavic languages, Greek, Hungarian, etc.
 
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spoox said:
"I've had a business idea to make jewelry where the Egyptian cartouche is populated with emojis rather than heiroglyphs. Someone's probably doing it already, but I think it'd be a hot seller."

No doubt--but the cartouche was originally used only for a royal name, and the modern jewelry that used some simplified version of the Egyptian alphabet to spell out names like Valerie or Theodore (no "V" or "Th" sounds or letters in Egyptian) winds up akin to those
beautiful Chinese tattoos people get that mean "soup". Better an English language rebus like on the old Concentration game show than emojis.
Emojis are sort of vague pictograms more similar to native American petroglyphs than really how Ancient Egyptian really worked.
And the majority of the papyri was written in hieratic, not hieroglyphs:
t2262a0_Sinuhe_Berlin3022.jpg
So you see the written language is even more removed from the idea that hieroglyphs are simply pictograms like emojis.
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True about the cartouche, spoox, but hey everyone likes to pretend they're regal :) Also, no argument that emojis are sort of vague, but people like them and they are part of the current vernacular. The content of the cartouche wouldn't be a name, it'd be a description of the person in some way.

Anyway, having said that, since I'm of Jewish descent, I would get a kick out of a cartouche with my Hebrew name -- King Chaim the last! Ruler of his domain! :D (Seinfeld fans will get the reference)
 
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"Ruler of his domain! :D (Seinfeld fans will get the reference)"
Is there a crossed out hand emoji? Or would you use a king and castle pictogram?
 
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davismanLV said:
Yeah, language is a funny thing. I have many Pilipino friends here in Las Vegas, and back in LA. In Tagalog, there is no F sound. So somehow when the soldiers went to the Phillipines, they acquired the Ph or F sound, which they don't even have in their language. So to them it's the Pilipines and they're Pilipino. Not Flip anything..... so wars and domination and world conquest can influence language. Right??
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Same with German and the English "Th" sound. Hence Germans typically pronouncing English words containing "th" with "Z". I didn't start speaking English until I was 6-7 years old and had to go to speech therapy to overcome that hurdle. It was tough. The toungue is very strong muscle with a very stubborn memory.
 
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RBSinTo said:
On a hot dog?
No, no, no!
Mustard, and relish only.
We are not Barbarians here!
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I like chopped onions instead of relish but yeah no ketchup…
Except, I have been known to sneak it on. I make a loaded dog with a meat sauce that is basically medium chili where ketchup takes the place of tomatoes.
 
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