Talk:Gardiner's Sign List
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[edit] Talk note 1
Cheeck out this interesting page I made on my home page:
ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Notes on hieroglyphs, etc
I created this article, so that I could get some hieroglyphic updates better, and of course, an individual learns other things along the way. (I sometimes correct spelling or wiki's or whatever, so I will leave the misspelling of "check" above to the next individual. But I do think some obvious misspellings on a talk page would we be a kind gesture, but there is a lot of misspellings out there on talk pages.)
- I started today and noticed the "What links here" for the Gardner Sign List has references to the Jabiru and the Saddle-billed Stork. It took Years...... to understand Egyptian hieroglyphs, and actually you only get there if you also go to things like the Amarna letters and clay tablet cuneiform, and the Text corpus(The Rosetta Stone and text alignment(Part-of-speech tagging POS-tagging)(Greek)is how I got to Hieroglyphs). The Epic of Gilgamesh is in Akkadian on 2-Column clay tablets. I know, individuals, mostly guys?, males?, had the satisfaction of reading a Totally Existential story. (As well as their Job was to Re-Write it.)
The bottom line is that our lives on this earth are existential. And the discussion on the existential page is a little bit divorced from what existentialism really is. To be able to create, thru "Wikipedia" an article which explains, yourself, or... the world is quite an ability of existentialism.
In the Gilgamesh story, 11 or 12 chapters are summed up, when Gilgamesh, turns to take a 'bath in the pool' and his plant of "eternal" life (which was so hard to obtain}, is snatched by the evil snake, and the "gods" only laugh at him. They tell him: 'you are human; you're not supposed to live forever anyway.' I noted on the Existential talk Talk:Existentialism, how all those famous and smart authors did not have access to cuneiform. They were still living in that Uncivilized, backward world. I am pretty sure we still live in the Dark Ages, though we have a potential of coming out of it. Our planet, and species may be in trouble, but we(humans) are at least aware of it. We can't claim we don't know what is happening.
So the second bird is the Saddle-billed Stork. When I got to the bottom of the Gardner list page and realized how many pages linked to the List of Egypt-related topics, I was the one who was shocked.((I almost doubled the Egypt-related list, and somebody needs to divide it into a: List of Ancient Egypt-related topics)).(If I get bored, or have time I will do it on a sandbox page.) When I get back to the egyptian topics, I will check out the above reference.Thanx--Michael McAnnis,YumaArizona--172.163.85.133 00:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)--((This didn't get tagged correctly. MMcAnnis))--Mmcannis 04:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Translated German page
I started translating the german page with a free translator and I've fixed up almost nothing, but here it is: List_of_hieroglyphs/german-Gardiner-list-translated. The German page has the actual translations of the hieroglyphsics - something this page needs. Fresheneesz 04:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Citation
"Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of Ancient Egypt [1]."
Wikipedia doesn't consider someone's homepage to be good source for much, and certainly not as a citation for the above statement. Find another. ◄ИΞШSΜΛЯΞ► 20:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- ?? What? (-along with next section!).. -Mmcannis 23:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Gardiner's History: on his Talk: page
I originally put all this biography on his Talk page: Talk:Alan Gardiner, since I found it here on his "Sign list page". {from the SonoranDesert of Arizona) -Mmcannis 23:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
