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Default So.. what did the Romans do for us? (was lanteen sails)

"Duncan Heenan" wrote...


Latin, you were lucky. Why, when I were a lad we had to cope with
Assyrian.......


Assyrian? Assyrian? When I were a lad we had cuneiform tablets and Linear
B - we'd have been grateful for bloody Assyrian.


Aye! That Rosetta Stone were a right little cracker weren't she!?
I wonder what she's doing nowadays?


She was never the same after I hit her over the head with my club and
dragged her into my cave! She couldn't even understand the petroglyphs I
tried to teach her!