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[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

It’s amazing how a guy who didn’t know Sumerian “translated” texts and is taken as gospel by those weirdos. I took a short Sumerian class - it’s not like translating Spanish.

I see so much AI “Sumerian” shit on Facebook. Every time I see the word annunaki, I just know something insane is following.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I had a little bit of contact with Sumerian myself in university (you might have guess from my username). I was in the Applied Computer Linguistics group in a project that translated Sumerian into English (with AI but before it was cool). The takeaway was that it's too little data to really train the neurol network properly but since most of the tablets were just which king owns how much cattle and stuff, it could handle it (I, for the record, don't own any cattle)

I sadly didn't learn too much about Sumerian. I know it's highly agglutinative and a language isolate. We had an Old Orientalist in the team and it was always cool to hear about and see cuneiform and how it developed over time and was used differently in different languages

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

It’s enough to make one believe in the power of the nam-shub of Enki, amirite?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

More like the power of human ignorance and laziness. Like, you can read the real deal online. None of the spaceship shit.

They also really love photoshopping the Pleiades into random artifacts on Facebook. Or Graham Hancock’s stupid “handbags.”

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