Phil Wang
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2,201 appearances
10 recordings
6 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 3 Jul
Phil Wang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, the O is a triangle, the L is a triangle, and the D is a triangle. But if you know, if you can read the uniform, you can tell the difference. So, what do you know?
Yeah, right, as I have.
They're an even simpler shape.
I've got it. I've tried to solve it. Triangles. Yeah, we don't need to draw every brick in the pyramid. We just need the triangle shape, actually.
Yeah, so they come after the Assyrians. Can't be bothered to come up with a new name. Everyone else came up with a new name. They're like, we're just the Assyrians again. Yeah, okay, all right. But it's not a language, cuneiform.
That's what I actually wanted to say, but I thought I wasn't allowed to say that.
Is it?
An innate interest in this. Yeah. I wish I did. No, I do have an interest in it. I want me to say I wish I had a skill in it. Okay. Yeah. All right. But I do not know that. Okay.
Yeah, right.
Well, ideally you have some sort of key. You find some sort of key a la Rosetta Stone. Sure. Right? Something that just tells you what each symbol means. Aside from that, without that, I'm guessing you're looking for patterns. Sure. You're looking for structures, you're looking for sentences, and then looking for what repeats, where particular symbols lie, and seeing if there's a logic to them.
This is good stuff, Phil, I think. That's exactly right.
It's just me and Phil. We're going to solve this. Well, my name is Philology Wang. Exactly. Philology Wang.
Is Behistun similar to Rosetta Stone in that it's the same script in two or three different languages?
No, I imagine there's a lot of beef. I imagine it was a Kendrick Lamar, Drake situation between the two.
Yeah, yeah, cuneiform songs about each other, yeah.
No, you've got to have a little healthy competition, I think, in philology. Yeah. You've got to... That's the force that keeps the discipline moving forward, you know? You can't all just be friends.
I mean, there could be hundreds of others, but you've... I'm the only Phil Wang, anyway. I've buried at least three Phil Wang.
Oh, man. Like a kind of spelling bee. Nice. Like a cuneiform spelling bee. And he's like, spell corn. Yeah. And Rollins and Hinks had to stand there and go, triangle, triangle pointing to the top left, triangle pointing to the top right. Is it something like that? I think that's great.
Oh, I see. So the test was if these three people can decipher this independent of one another, then right.
If it's not in the BM, did it even happen? That's always been my motto.
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