Certain ideographic spellings in Babylonian cuneiform are often difficult to decipher; but when the reading is provided, every cuneiform scholar immediately recognizes that the reading is correct, just as someone who cannot read a rebus is still able to judge the correctness of a proposed interpretation. For example, during the German-French War of 1870/1, if someone was asked what dispatch represented the war scene 2x2 = 4 ii, they would not be able to answer; but if they were then told that 2 X 2 = 4 ii meant nothing new (namely the statement 2 X 2 = 4) before a few i's, i.e., Nothing New before Paris, they would naturally see the correctness of the solution.
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Even if you can't solve a word puzzle, you can still figure out whether a proposed solution to the puzzle is right.
Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:49 am