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For some reason, it rather amuses me when even classics grad students are impressed by the ability to read hieroglyphs.
I mean, they study an ancient civilization with a dead language too, right? It’s just a dead language that works significantly differently. I reckon people just react to strongly to hieroglyphs because they look so mysterious and exotic and cool. Which they (and those who study them, heheh) most certainly are—certainly they work far differently from the most of the languages spoken most frequently in this country. But in the end, it’s a language, with a system that can be learned, not witchcraft. Even though it usually feels much more like the latter when one is attempting said learning…
Besides, I’m an undergraduate student still. As far as I’m concerned, graduate students have a vast unsurpassable knowledge of all things. It is known.
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fralusans-ana-marein said:
graduate students: so crazy.
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