Lex Fridman

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

So you're saying one sign that looks exactly the same might have different sounds given the context?

Can you, in all seriousness, take me back to the time when you were learning it?

What's the process of learning it?

So given the complexity of the signs, why did cuneiform last 3,000 years, the most successful writing system ever?

So we're getting, in these tablets, the output of the intellectual class, a very small fraction of humans.

So we're getting just the Oxford and the Cambridge.

I apologize to be philosophical, but Wittgenstein, the philosopher, said that the limits of our language is the limits of our world.

So to which degree did the languages that were encoded in cuneiform define human civilization, would you say?

What were the things that were complicated to express and therefore were not expressed often?

The whole text is different.

You have said that translation is part archaeology, part detective work, part poetry.

Can we just speak about translation and the art of it a bit more?

I mean, it's such an incredible discipline.

Just like you said, hinted at, just a subtle variation in a single word can change everything.

It's the pride of our nation, those two things.

The very thing.

Chicago Dictionary.

I'm sorry to take the tension.