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labarna
8y ago
Just FYI, "to wear (out)" has an irregular past tense, and past participle forms: "wore" and "worn". So: 1) These disk, because of constant throughput, wore out. 2) These disk, because of constant throughput,
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labarna
8y ago
I haven't seen it in my texts, and actually perusing the dictionaries and sign-lists right now, I think I'm getting a sense for how the derivation came about. I modern reading of the signs that make up the word they're talkin
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labarna
8y ago
Totally agree, there are publications out there that are starting to bridge the gap. But really now more and more academics are taking to twitter and sharing their research in a more public way often with much of the field specific jargon
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8y ago
I'm working on editing my PhD dissertation into a book right now and I'm dealing with this exact problem. I work on Babylonian astrology and the text I studied for my PhD was a complex table of astrological material including &qu