You know you play too much EB when...

[satalexton]

i'll tell u what's better =P learn chinese and get teh full juice of it xD

[Intranetusa]

i'll tell u what's better =P learn chinese and get teh full juice of it xD

Naw man. You gotta learn one of the archaic Chinese languages, which is what they spoke back then, I believe. But Archaic and Middle Chinese are dead languages, like Latin. :/

[Gleemonex]

Naw man. You gotta learn one of the archaic Chinese languages, which is what they spoke back then, I believe. But Archaic and Middle Chinese are dead languages, like Latin. :/

The grammar and pronunciation have evolved significantly, but the Chinese characters were standardised by Qin Shi Huangdi (the emperor who first unified China) around 220BC, and had been quite stable since the Zhou Dynasty a thousand years prior. It remained virtually un-changed until Simplified Chinese (ptui! ) in the 50s. And the 'etymology' (graphology?) of the most common characters is taught in general education here, going back to pre-historic petroglyphs.

Basically "The Art of War" is be about as readable to a modern Chinese speaker/reader as Shakespeare is to a modern English speaker/reader -- although spoken Shakespearian English would be much easier to follow than spoken Ancient Chinese.

-Glee

[Celtic_Punk]

You know you play too much EB, when you think it'd be cool to beable to make small talk in latin.

[Pontius Pilate]

when you start talking about Chinese grammar and pronunciation.

[a completely inoffensive name]

when you start correcting people on ancient history in RL.

[AlexanderSextus]

when you start correcting people on ancient history in RL.

When you start correcting your ancient history TEACHER on ancient history, in RL.

[everyone]

you mean something like this?

I doodled this on the bottom of my notes, since there were around 15 more lines to doodle on.
I think the phalanx guy looks limp.

[Ibrahim]

you mean something like this?

I doodled this on the bottom of my notes, since there were around 15 more lines to doodle on.
I think the phalanx guy looks limp.

nah, he's just fine. Argyraspid, right? or is it klerouch?

[everyone]

I think he looks more like the Argyraspides, though I forgot to add a cape.

[Novellus]

you mean something like this?

I doodled this on the bottom of my notes, since there were around 15 more lines to doodle on.
I think the phalanx guy looks limp.

Yeah, something like that. Here's what happened to my Spanish stuff:



So much for Spanish class...

(Sorry, my scanner broke, so I had to use a low-quality camera.)