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by peri-cl
2 hours ago
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> "The alien words, names, and characters are explained as coming from ancient languages such as Greek, Hebrew, and “Chaldean”" Why is "Chaldean" in scare-quotes? Ah, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Aramaic#Chaldean_misn... ("Chaldean language (misnomer)") (I think I might(?) have seen the same confusion in the wild. Voltaire's preface to Zadig (1747), the fantasy satire set in ancient Babylon, purports to translate a found manuscript written in Chaldean). |
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