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I dunno, the choice of Old Persian is rather questionable when everyone knows the lingua franca was Akkadian, and looking at the tablets it's pretty clear they were using a sharpened chopstick rather than reeds harvested from the banks of the Euphrates. In sum: FAIL.
(Score: 1) by angelosphere on Tuesday November 10 2015, @08:29PM
Reminds me to a true story.
A girl copied some Chinese characters (Kanji) from a restaurant menu and painted them on a shirt.
When she was in a different town, at a railway station, for some reason random Chinese men where suppressing laughters and the girls whee giggling at her.
The girl who told me the story was studying Chinese at that time and was asked to translate the signs, because of that incident. She hat painted: "Good and Cheap" on her shirt. Well .... not that embarrassing. "Honi soit qui mal y pense."