English Language & Usage: Multi-Layered Discourse Room

Mahnax

00:55

@MetaEd FF's answer there was demolished!

simchona

01:23

@Mahnax In my opinion it was pretty much wrong, and he refused to see that textspeak != l33t

Mahnax

@simchona Oh, I completely agree.

But -6 is the lowest answer score I've ever seen here.

simchona

Maybe because he refused to recant?

No offense, but I'm pretty sure FF is too old to really know what l33t is nowadays

with the young'uns

Mahnax

Hehe.

Maybe that's it.

Mitch

02:27

@Mahnax The selection of ELU users is probably not from the world population of English enthusiasts, but rather the world population of English speaking computer programmers. Ergo, they really know l337 first (and texting second) and that example just ain't l337.

Mahnax

@Mitch That makes sense.

Mitch

@Mahnax (for the great number of downvotes) FF is obviously wrong, but the population explains the psychology getting the large number of downvotes.

I will now go on to explain a joke. So if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach him to fish, he'll eat for the rest of his life.

This is a how the parable of fish and loaves started. When they ran out of bread (man does not eat by bread alone), they started on the fish. As to the women, what, are they chopped liver?

@Mahnax english.stackexchange.com/questions?page=329&sort=votes

a whole bunch of -7's

by a whole bunch, I mean 2 (look at the last page, there's one more there)

but there a few more -6's

Oh..._answers_. lowest scored answer. OK I don't know how to find that.

@MetaEd Also, the subtle print at the bottom of the poster says "...Chat with God!". Would it be too cynical of me to think that the IM charges won't be going to charity?

simchona

03:50

Wow, one user was suspended and has made at least three new accounts since

Mahnax

04:16

@simchona Who?

Mahnax

04:48

I am quite confused at the moment.

Somehow, a suspended user just asked a question, which was deleted within minutes of being asked.

waiwai933

@Mahnax User created a new account, asked a question, account was merged into suspended account, question was deleted.

Mahnax

05:01

@waiwai933 I suspected that something like that happened, but it was very quick.

Anyways, thanks for clearing it up.

I should return to studying, though. Have a nice evening.

Matt Эллен

07:39

My edit we tweened and one upped by Reg! Welcome back you crafty owl :)

Matt Эллен

09:04

I don't like this Total D character. too much chaff.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:02

F U rIt lIk ths wn U txt U nEd 2 gt a betr fOn

Matt Эллен

nd a betr st uv fngrs

simchona

@waiwai I think that user made another new account last night

@matt that Total D guy looks fishy to me

Matt Эллен

@simchona yeah, similar style to the other guy

simchona

Same exact questions too.

Vitaly

12:21

pigeonblog.wordpress.com

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So I'm listening to the Pharynglua podcast, and this guy is recounting the Accelerated Christian Education program he went through, reading from the textbooks, etc. Now, I went to a Catholic school (in Ontario we have a public Catholic school board), but holy crap, what a difference between my publicly-funded religious education and HIS privately-funded religious education.

@Vitaly heheh, reminds me of "Meerkat Manor"

RegDwight ΒВB

@MattЭллен hi sock, hi puppet, hi everyone who's neither.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВB welcome back!

Matt Эллен

Hello! :)

time for me to jet!

Vitaly

@RegDwightΒВB Hey. Good to see you back.

Jez

12:37

hello, from Debian wheezy

hello, from WinXP

KitFox

@RegDwightΒВB Hullo. How's tricks?

simchona

13:00

what's the 24 hour limit for questions by new users?

Mitch

@MattЭллен Looking at Total D's questions, they seem rather minimal to me...every single one about the difference between two prepositions, pretty on-topic. Pick vs Pick At, Select For vs Select

simchona

@Mitch Except that the user keeps making new accounts, which get merged into older ones

The "select for/select" question was also asked last night before "TD" did, with the same question text

Mitch

@simchona Oh..that's different.

Is this the sockpuppetry alluded to before?

simchona

english.stackexchange.com/questions/72131/select-select-for

yup

KitFox

Oh the suspended guy.

simchona

13:06

Mhm. He moved away from warships

KitFox

Probably just to throw you off his scent.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Sometimes you see comments on SO that suggest that there are people who really, really shouldn't be programmers

works fine.. but m getting msg "The local variable item is never read" — suraj jain Mar 24 at 10:12

KitFox

Haha.

simchona

But...I want to define it

KitFox

Maybe I should go back to SO and work up my rep.

simchona

13:07

All over the place

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Um, if you copy-pasta'd some code from the intertubes and you get a warning saying there's a variable that is never read, maybe you can just remove that part of the code? maybe?

Instead of asking for the OP to fix the bug for you?

KitFox

Or something.

Look at ur codez, you know.

Try to think about it yourself.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Like, seriously, the method in question has FOUR LINES OF CODE

KitFox

I guess that's why we have SO, though.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    MenuItem item = menu.add("Refresh");
    item = menu.add("Quit");
    return true;
}

simchona

13:10

0

Q: How does one write the plural of abbreviations, or the past tense of abreviated verbs?

If I'm talking about more than one CD, I'll usually write "CDs" and if I send someone a message using the program called "ICQ" I might say "I ICQd" that too you.", but maybe it should be "ICQ'd" or "ICQed" (more generically, "I IMd you." or "I IM'd you."...) Is there any rule or accepted norm for...

Do we have this already somewhere?

KitFox

Want the latest version of Macy and Ada?

@simchona Oh yes.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@KitFox yes but I can't read it now

KitFox

OK.

I bet it's that damn super variable.

Mitch

@simchona Ohhh...-that dude. Yes. very questionable. But I'll stil stand by that the small handful of questions about prepositions are all totally straightforward and on-topic.

simchona

@Mitch They're also probably plagiarized from somewhere

Mitch

13:13

is that the 'three-fold' guy/question?

simchona

Yes

KitFox

64

Q: What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym?

For example, if I wanted to write the equivalent of There are many automated teller machines in this city. Would it be There are many ATMs in this city. or There are many ATM's in this city. (could get confused with possessive form or contraction). or just There are many...

acronyms grammatical-number

Mitch

@simchona the efficiency of the chatroom...almost closed within a few seconds of that.

KitFox

I can't find the one that has the IM'd thing.

I bet @Reg could though.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I posted the link in The Overlook.

Mitch

@simchona I feel funny about calling a question plagiarism. I don't think it has the same stigma.

simchona

13:20

@Mitch Either way, sockpuppeting

KitFox

@Mitch It's not that it was a similar question, it's that it was the exact same question. At least, as I understand it.

Mitch

@KitFox I have a feeling all my responses about this guy are going to be 'Oh'.

Robusto

ixquick.nl is my new search engine

Mitch

as in...if I had only known

KitFox

@Robusto Why is that?

Robusto

13:21

Remember the "https://" in front

Nobody tracks your searches. It's private.

KitFox

Nice.

Mitch

@Robusto What do you mean 'nobody'. -They- still can.

Robusto

But =they= don't. Besides, they're in Dutchland.

Mitch

sez them.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox I found it three seconds too late.

Mitch

13:24

That that's where they are.

Robusto

Well, except if you use Google or Bing you know you're getting tracked.

RegDwight ΒВB

Was too busy figuring out how can I do some read with this.

KitFox

Are you having a hard time with English today?

RegDwight ΒВB

0

Q: No quotation mark in a book?

So I just bought this book 'Requiem for a dream' and I just "found out" that there is no quotation mark in the book in a conversation. So it's up to me to tell when the converstation started by who! Anyone knows what this is. A traditional novel style of something?! How can I do some read with th...

technical quotation-marks reading

Me? Never.

I do wonder what his question is. After all, he himself admits that anyone knows what this is.

Robusto

Uh, Joyce and Gaddis both used an em dash (—) to denoted quoted material.

KitFox

13:26

pretends to be reader Oh noes! I will have to think about things and stuff!

I might have to pay attention to the words!

How can this possibly be right!?

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox oh and yeah. Them tricks is fine. Got lots of swimming, lots of rest, lots of sun, and lots of spectacular food. So spectacular, in fact, that I eated to the point of having eated too much. Like, chest pain and stuff. First thing this morning, I visited a gastroenterologist for a nice round of gastroscopae's, and got diagnosed with esophagus inflammation.

Robusto

From now on, all English will have to be written at the 4th-grade level for morons such as this.

KitFox

@RegDwightΒВB Yowsa! Sounds like you had a really good time. envy

RegDwight ΒВB

Ayup. Go figure! As a vegetarian in Turkey! I thought I'd starve.

Robusto

What, no falafel? No humus?

KitFox

13:30

@Robusto Requiem for a Dream as written by JK Rowling. It's totally meta.

Robusto

Finnegans Wake for Dummies!

RegDwight ΒВB

At swim three bugs.

KitFox

Naked Lunch for People Who Don't Care For Any Of That Fancy Book-Learnin' Garbage

Three bugs?

RegDwight ΒВB

It's a wordplay.

At Swim-Two-Birds

At Swim-Two-Birds is a 1939 novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It is widely considered to be O'Brien's masterpiece, and one of the most sophisticated examples of metafiction. The novel's title derives from Snámh dá Én (Middle Ir.: "Swim-Two-Birds"), a ford on the River Shannon, between Clonmacnoise and Shannonbridge, reportedly visited by the legendary King Sweeney, a character in the novel. The novel was included in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Plot summary At Swim-Two-Birds presents it...

KitFox

It's too deep for me.

Robusto

13:33

> The river runs by Eve and Adam, from swerve of shore to bend of bay. This brings us by a ~~commodious~~ roomy circular thing we will call Howth Castle and environs.

RegDwight ΒВB

@KitFox That book is too deep even for James Joyce.

KitFox

Whoa.

That's pretty effing deep.

Robusto

@RegDwightΒВB "I call that a scumhead." — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

KitFox

I love an Irish man in his cups, though.

RegDwight ΒВB

Feb 25 '11 at 11:53, by RegDwight

"It is currently estimated to be up to deep. The trench is about long but has a mean width of only."

KitFox

13:34

Haha.

I forgot about that.

RegDwight ΒВB

0

Q: I lived vs I used to live

What is the difference here, please: I used to live in Prague 5 years ago. I lived in Prague 5 years ago.

grammar past-tense tenses

Robusto

It's interesting what new languages you can discover by moving your fingers off the home keys. fon'y yyiy yhiunh diz.

RegDwight ΒВB

Must be a dupe.

KitFox

@Robusto Is that Elvish?

Drow dialect, perhaps?

Robusto

@KitFox Elvish has left the building.

KitFox

13:37

groan

Robusto

Fuck your groan.

RegDwight ΒВB

No flirting.

Can't find the original. Only more, um, stuff.

1

Q: About 'used to'

You used to have muscles. You can use it to me. Sometimes, "used to" means "often", sometimes use+to just means "use". How to diff those two situations?

phrases verbs

KitFox

Rob must be ouchy this morning.

RegDwight ΒВB

You can use it to him. Then he can do some read with this.

Robusto

Stuff is stuff. And parts is parts.

RegDwight ΒВB

13:39

And pants is pants.

Robusto

Off to do me exercises. BTW, I'm climbing stairs normally again. Booyah!

RegDwight ΒВB

Gratulatioaen's!

KitFox

@Robusto Naïs!

simchona

@RegDwightB He's posting comments as answers again (english.stackexchange.com/a/72188/10893)

RegDwight ΒВB

@simchona haha. But with nicer formatting this time!

> --------------,-,.,.,.-,.-,.-,.-,.--,.-,.-,.,.-,.-,.-,.-

What is this grammar?

simchona

13:41

@RegDwightΒВB Elvish?

Drunk Morse Code?

RegDwight ΒВB

Ah. I always forget Elvish. Always.

It got superceded by Turkish in my brain.

KitFox

dash dash dash dash wink dash wink dot wink...

RegDwight ΒВB

dish dish dish wank dot wank...

KitFox

Sounds like fun with kitchen goods.

RegDwight ΒВB

ELU: The American Pie 7 Edition.

Speaking of which, you won't believe me how many of the "words" in that "F U rIt..." string I parsed as "fuck".

KitFox

13:44

Wouldn't I?

I missed you, @Reg.

RegDwight ΒВB

Well, it was between seven and eight.

Now go on and believe that.

KitFox

Seems like you were gone for-EV-er.

for-E-ver.

Shit.

RegDwight ΒВB

Boss?

KitFox

Well, I believe you now.

RegDwight ΒВB

Hm, so no boss. Every time you say "shit" it is followed by "my boss wants me to rewrite ASP.NET in Turbo jQuery 2.0 till yesterday".

KitFox

13:48

Oh. Oh. Right.

Not boss, project lead.

My boss recently privately agreed with me that the lead is an complete idiot and we should wrest as much control from him as possible.

But that "shit" was for a different reason.

RegDwight ΒВB

Anyhoo, thanks for believing and missing. I'd blush but my blood is busy with the inflammation.

KitFox

Hey, but the good news is that I only need to make one tiny little schema change before August 1st.

@RegDwightΒВB My husband had that. It sucked. He ate a lot of antacids and drank a lot of milk.

simchona

@RegDwightB More in-answer comments

KitFox

I mean, the inflammation.

simchona

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A: Who ''coined'' the term "scare quotes" and when, citation please, and why the word "scare" there?

fRIEND IN OKLAHOMA, 59. NOVELIST TELLS ME, -- ''I've never heard the term before. And I don't have one clue why they would be called "scare" unless people are afraid to say what they really mean. It's kind of like calling the Pope "Holy Father". He's just a man like anyone else, but because of...

RegDwight ΒВB

13:51

@KitFox Yeah I tried milk yesterday. Same difference. Can't eat or drink anything at all, really. It's like I have a wooden egg stuck in the entrance to my stomach.

KitFox

Did you get some drugs?

And does that mean you are allergic to [insert stereotypical Turkish spice here]?

Plus, I recommend yogurt and/or a nice vanilla custard.

RegDwight ΒВB

Nah. I think I just plain ate too much. I had two refills of everything every single evening.

KitFox

Sounds delicious.

RegDwight ΒВB

Plus it's Euro 2012, so I had a beer almost every evening. Usually I don't drink at all.

KitFox

You lush!

Mitch

13:56

@RegDwightΒВB he's just testing you.

Robusto

Do they still have euros? Methinks euros are the new marks.

RegDwight ΒВB

Lastly, we were swimming a lot, so I guess the permanent water pressure wasn't too helpful in keeping the gastric acid at bay.

KitFox

Gah. I am so hungry right now.

RegDwight ΒВB

I haven't been hungry for two days. At all.

Mitch

@simchona bettern in-comment answers

RegDwight ΒВB

13:58

I do hope to at least lose some weight on this.

KitFox

Are you sure you don't have a small gnome or dwarf in your stomach?

A good bleeding would take care of that.

RegDwight ΒВB

What do you mean, "small"? And "or"?

@KitFox as a traditionalist, I prefer blessing over bleeding.

KitFox

prays for Reg's esophagus

RegDwight ΒВB

Hah. At last, a sentence this room didn't already contain.

KitFox

Yes!

RegDwight ΒВB

14:01

Feb 18 '11 at 17:59, by RegDwight

Expect this to be quoted.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@RegDwightΒВB We had lots of those while you were away

KitFox

@MetaEd Well, hello!

RegDwight ΒВB

@MrShinyandNew安宇 that's what you think because there was noöne around to quote otherwise.

MetaEd

@Mitch Is it a commercial offer? I took it as a sort of invitation to pray. Along the lines of "Heavenly Telephone".

@KitFox howdy!

KitFox

@MetaEd I thought it was just a more convenient way for the clergy to tell you what to do and ascribe it to a mystical power you can't see.

RegDwight ΒВB

14:05

@KitFox oh and yeah. Two kinds of drugs, actually. Plus they want my blood next Monday, and another gastroscopy in four weeks.

It will be a busy Monday, I can tell you. Spill some blood, get a piano.

Matt Эллен

sounds like a good deal

KitFox

Man texts: Gd, i m gonna prk ths wmn but shes not my wf, k? i wl fl bad abt it l8r wn she klz my rbt.

RegDwight ΒВB

It sure is to me!

KitFox

@RegDwightΒВB Awesome! That one you had your eye on?

MetaEd

@KitFox Yeah, speak the people's language. Textspeak is the new vernacular. Hey, let's translate the whole Bible into it.

RegDwight ΒВB

14:08

@KitFox Well, one of them anyway. I tested many instruments, several times.

MetaEd

"N t bgng, Gd md t sky n t rth."

Matt Эллен

@KitFox klz my rbt? kills my rabbit?

KitFox

God texts back: btr not or u wl brn in Hl 4 al etrnty

@MattЭллен Yes!

Matt Эллен

OMG :D

KitFox

Man texts back: i sed i wud fl sry l8r!

God: ... jst make shur u put a tnr in d pl8 on sundy.

RegDwight ΒВB

14:10

I can't parse this shit. I feel like that dog from that comic.

KitFox

Man replies: sweeeeet thx gd ur teh bst!

Matt Эллен

:D lol

RegDwight ΒВB

KitFox

Haha. I remember that one.

RegDwight ΒВB

This. Except replace man with Kit, dog with meself, and "Ginger" with "fuck".

KitFox

14:12

"Gd, i m gonna prk ths wmn but shes not my wf, k? i wl fl bad abt it l8r wn she klz my rbt."
God, I'm going to pork this woman but she's not my wife, OK? I will feel bad about it later when she kills my rabbit.

RegDwight ΒВB

I never had problems parsing textspeak until today.

Cerberus

Hey do I hear Cerberus blablah Cerberus blahblahblah?

Welcome back!

RegDwight ΒВB

Helloes!

Iyi günler!

Cerberus

Oh God, it learned Turkish.

Eh to you as well!

How was it?

RegDwight ΒВB

Well I learned like one word a day.

Cerberus

14:14

Did you like the Topkapi Palace?

RegDwight ΒВB

JSBangs'ae's grammar fat lot of good to me did.

Cerberus

Haha you didn't seriously take that with you...

RegDwight ΒВB

So I just stuck to learning things by heart.

Cerberus

Same here.

But did you learn that a g between vowels is soft?

Like an h?

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus well if in your language a simple "thanks" is over several miles long, then a) your language fails and b) WTF?

Mitch

14:16

@MetaEd It looks on the order of 'text a prayer (for the texting charges)' but it says 'chat with God' so I would expect a response back from Him. But I am skeptical of the people who put the technology together (I seriously wonder if they're really passing it on and forwarding the response back).

Cerberus

Is it? I completely forgot.

What is your overall impression of the city?

KitFox

Mmm, a soft g between vowels. That reminds me of a night I had with two Turks...

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus that, my dear, I always knew. I can read Turkish just fine. I'm not an idiot! I can even read Katakana when the going gets tough. I just don't understand anything.

Cerberus

@KitFox Haha you...

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus and that kapi is not kapi, it's kapı

KitFox

14:17

Qui, moi?

Cerberus

@MattЭллен Oh dear, now I'm supposed to spell all correctly too...

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus en.wiktionary.org/wiki/te%C5%9Fekk%C3%BCr_ederim

Matt Эллен

@Cerberus well, do you want the hoi polli thinking you don't worry about spelling?

Cerberus

@RegDwightΒВB en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mersi#Turkish

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus Side, you mean? Other than the ruins, which I liked a lot, there's nothing in terms of sightseeing there.

Cerberus

14:18

@MattЭллен Ahhhh!

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus yeah, and you know how many people use that? Zilch.

Cerberus

@RegDwightΒВB Side?

RegDwight ΒВB

Side. We were in Side.

Cerberus

You did go to Istanbul, didn't you?

Huh?

KitFox

Ah-HA! makes notes

Cerberus

14:19

Wait.

Mitch

@RegDwightΒВB Where'd you find that? The one next to it is the same one but with a cat, and the balloon for the cat says...

RegDwight ΒВB

Side

Side ( Side, ) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It is now a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in Turkey, near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 75 km from Antalya) in the province of Antalya. It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across. H...

Cerberus

And I've been telling everybody you went to Istanbul.

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus I don't think I ever told anyone where we were going because I couldn't remember the name of the city myself.

Mitch

@KitFox I'm still trying to figure out how the rabbit got involved.

RegDwight ΒВB

14:20

@Mitch I googled for "what dogs hear comic".

Cerberus

@RegDwightΒВB Hmm odd. So anyway the temple and the gate look nice.

KitFox

@Mitch It was a fatal attraction.

Mitch

@RegDwightΒВB Morning of 'Oh'. Or 'Oh. Duh.'

@KitFox badabing!

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus it's comparable to Ostia, in terms of both condition and size.

MetaEd

I sat in the lap of a king at Nemrut Dağı.

RegDwight ΒВB

14:24

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Q: Which is the best English learning Book and Video program?

I want to learn English from scratch. I know to speak English and Read English and write English. But I am not good at vocabulary, Grammar, and writing skills. I want to learn things again. We all learn this at school days but because of the work and professional and social life we missed out so...

learning

Cerberus

@RegDwightΒВB Oh, but that is pretty big.

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus it is! They even have a rather huge amphitheatre, bigger than in Ostia I would say.

Cerberus

Oh nice.

Mitch

Cerberus

Haha.

RegDwight ΒВB

14:26

Except that Ostia has been laid open in its entirety, while much of Side is still buried under sand dunes.

Cerberus

Oh, I see.

I remember some very cool mosaic floors.

RegDwight ΒВB

But we've seen a few temples, something that could have been a hospital, two agoras, a market street, and lots and lots of houses.

Cerberus

But are most of the ruins in Side Roman as well?

RegDwight ΒВB

@Cerberus Greek actually.

Cerberus

Just as I thought.

I'm not good at archaeology, but there should be differences.

RegDwight ΒВB

14:28

Yeah I'm just trying to compare. Had I not seen Ostia, I would have been immensely impressed with Side.

Cerberus

Poor you.

RegDwight ΒВB

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Side

KitFox

@MetaEd Did you tell him what you wanted for Christmas?

Cerberus

Is this real?

Or a replica?

RegDwight ΒВB

No idea. Haven't seen that one.

MetaEd

14:32

@KitFox Wish I'd thought of it! Probably would have gotten rocks though.

RegDwight ΒВB

In fact I don't remember any statues. Those in the agora were all gone.

maps.google.de/…

Cerberus

A German map...

RegDwight ΒВB

I just followed the links from the German Wikipedia.

Cerberus

Hehe.

KitFox

Fox Garden?

Cerberus

14:39

squeaky voice Yes, dear?

MetaEd

panoramio.com/photo/22559677

o-o.preferred.iad23t05.v4.cache6.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/…

KitFox

That is one cute kid in those pictures.

Cerberus

@MetaEd Oh, nice...those statues look pre-Greek?

Or Persian, perhaps?

Lydian?

Carian?

MetaEd

Mount Nemrut

:Turkey also has a volcano named Nemrut Nemrut or Nemrud ( ; ) is a high mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BCE. Location and description The mountain lies north of Kahta, near Adıyaman. In 62 BC, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues ( high) of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek, Armenian, and Iranian gods, such as Hercules-Vahagn, Zeus-Aramazd or Oromasdes (associated with the I...

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Probably not Hittite.

> In 62 BC, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues (8–9 m/26–30 ft high) of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek, Armenian, and Iranian gods, such as Hercules-Vahagn, Zeus-Aramazd or Oromasdes (associated with the Iranian god Ahura Mazda), Tyche, and Apollo-Mithras.

Hmm so a mixed bag.

Funny syncretic culture there.

They should restore the heads.

KitFox

14:54

Lunch, bbl.

RegDwight ΒВB

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