BS: Atavistic Cuneiform

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 05:17 PM

G'day again Swirly one,

I was just getting worried you were slipping into the linguistic simplification that expects such adjectival uses (since cunieform itself is a noun) to be simple descriptions ... and neglects attribution and association.

Anyway, it was only a device to direct attention back to the odd results of the Google search ... and Helens seems to have explained that quite well.

Mrzzy: An ape thumb could be useful on a modified bass ... to play the really low notes ... ?!?

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 11:35 AM

Good idea, swirlygirl! Hmmm - I'm still thinking of the possibilities...

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: GUEST,swirlygirl
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 11:05 AM

Hey Bob Bolton!

I know the tablets are described as cuneiform tablets but it's not because of the shape of the tablets, rather the shape of the letter forms due to the wedge shaped (Latin cuneus I think) tool used to press into the wet clay to form each letter/symbol...

Anyway Mrrzy is the issue here! Just go barefoot girl! Ask them to add a foot thumb...think of the instruments you could possibly play!

:)

xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Jan 02 - 09:06 AM

Hee hee, this was fun. Yes, I have an ape-foot - the long bone that goes between ankle and big toe goes off on a strong angle because the anklebone to which it connects still thinks I ought to have a thumb down there, rather than a big toe. The problem is that nobody told the FOOT bone that it should belong to an ape, so it is formed as if I had a foot, so its cartilage on the ankle end wasn't actually between the foot and ankle bone. Therefore a) it didn't cushion that joint (not that I usually think of the middle of one's foot as a joint, but it is one - this "ankle" bone actually goes halfway down the foot) and b) all cartilage there has now vanished anyway, as unneeded. So now (after ## years with no cartilage in that joint) the foot bone has a big bulging deformation on its ankle end, that makes all shoes hurt (it's pointing up like a stalagmite, so any pressure on the top of my foot presses flesh onto basically one of those spikes for spindling forms). I had always been hard to fit for shoes, but only found out why recently!

I just thought it was very odd that I'd get all these music sites, and nothing about feet! Even Sorcha's helpful link didn't talk about my particular issue, which they want to fix by doing MAJOR reconstructive surgery on the foot and all I want is the spiky part removed...

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 05:43 PM

One guess as to the Google search---search engines seem to remember what sort of things you search for most often. I always get a lot of "music" hits on stuff even if that is not what I am looking for. Perhaps it is that. Maybe try "cuneiform surgery"?

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 05:38 PM

And instead it seems to be a company more interested in the Rolling Stones...........

.....sorry.............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 05:29 PM

And here I thought that you had a new interpretation of the Rosetta Stone.

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Helen
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 05:28 PM

Result of Google search: This is the info on it but I couldn't get into the site itself.

Links: Record Labels - The Hip Surgery Encyclopedia of Music ... Atavistic Chicago label boasting a vast catalog of adventurous music by GLENN BRANCA ... Cuneiform Label dealing in avant rock, new jazz, and progressive music from ... myke_oclock.tripod.com/links-labels.html - 29k

Translation: Atavistic and Cuneiform both seem to be the names of record company labels for non-commercial music.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 05:04 PM

G'day Swirly,

Archeologists describe lumps of baked clay, covered in this script, as cuneiform tablets.

BTW: Nobody has cracked Mrrzy's Google/musical sites link ...

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: swirlygirl
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 04:40 PM

Aaaaah! So it is the shape of the bone...

Not sure about Encarta saying that it's 3. used for cuneiform writing: used to describe the clay tablets on which cuneiform script was

Cos it should describe the letter shapes like it says later in the definition...

...hmmmm....

:)

xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: annamill
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 04:21 PM

..or have you been writing dirty letters??

L.A.

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: annamill
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 04:16 PM

Found these in Encarta.

Seems you have a throwback ankle bone ;-)

atavistic at·a·vis·tic [àtt vístik ] adjective 1. relating to genetic reappearance: relating to or displaying the recurrence of a genetic feature that has been absent for several generations 2. uncivilized and instinctive: relating to or displaying the kind of behavior that seems to be a product of impulses long since suppressed by society's rules at·a·vis·ti·cal·ly adverb

cuneiform

cu·ne·i·form [kyni fàwrm , kyoo n fàwrm ] adjective

1. wedge-shaped: with the narrowly triangular shape of a wedge

2. used in ancient writing system: relating or belonging to any of several writing systems of the ancient Near East, for example, Sumerian or Linear B, in which wedge-shaped impressions were made in soft clay

3. used for cuneiform writing: used to describe the clay tablets on which cuneiform script was written

4. ANATOMY of ankle: used to describe any of three wedge-shaped bones of the ankle

noun (plural cu·ne·i·forms)

1. cuneiform script: writing that uses small wedge-shaped characters

2. ANATOMY wedge-shaped ankle bone: any of the three cuneiform bones of the ankle (informal)

[Late 17th century. From French cunéiforme or modern Latin cuneiformis , from Latin cuneus "wedge."]

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: swirlygirl
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 03:43 PM

Why are the boney things or whatever called first second and third cuneiform?

Is it to do with the shape?

:)

xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 03:30 PM

So Myrrs........Does this cause you to do the Tennessee Birdwalk or what?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:49 PM

Aha! Inherited bone abnormality in the foot. Try here.

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:48 PM

I think you must surely have a misspelling there in either or both words. What is it, in English? Is this one of those appendix-y things?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:38 PM

I have no clue. I get no results at all. What is it? Sounds like ancient handwriting to me..........

Subject: Atavistic Cuneiform
From: Mrrzy
Date: 24 Jan 02 - 02:32 PM

I have one of these, and was trying to look up info on it and getting it fixed surgically, but Google only pops up MUSIC sites when I search on it! Why would that be?