Dictator recreates Gilgamesh using the 1,500-word vocabulary of Globish, put together by Jean-Paul Nerri re. Globish is a business language, appropriate to translate cuneiform which emerged from the need to record business transactions. Nerri re considered it the world dialect of the third millenium; likewise Akkadian, the language of Gilgamesh, was the lingua franca of communications in the Near East. This link between...
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