On 7/8/06 19:55, "Mathias Rösel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I have a comparable experience with my 6 year old son. One day
>>> somebody wanted him to play some lute pieces by Waissel. But he
>>> handed him an edition in French tablature!! At once my son threw himself
>>> to the floor, weeping and swearing, because he plays it only from
>>> German tablature.
>>> Only after translating some death penalties from Old Assyrian he
>>> could find his calmness again!
>
>> Old Assyrian, eh? It sounds like your six-year-old and my nine-year-old
>> would hit it off very well, as she wrote her PhD thesis on the
>> influences of Old Assyrian epic poetry traditions on Attic-Ionic Greek
>> via Old Persian.
>
> Mates finally! Where will we meet? My eight-year-old loves to fluently
> chat in Babylonian.
I'm so jealous. I had to wait till University before I had a chance to start
learning Akkadian =D
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