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24 Jan 02 - 02:32 PM (#634788) Subject: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Mrrzy 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? |
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24 Jan 02 - 02:38 PM (#634795) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Sorcha I have no clue. I get no results at all. What is it? Sounds like ancient handwriting to me.......... |
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24 Jan 02 - 02:48 PM (#634803) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: wysiwyg 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 |
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24 Jan 02 - 02:49 PM (#634804) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Sorcha Aha! Inherited bone abnormality in the foot. Try here. |
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24 Jan 02 - 03:30 PM (#634841) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: catspaw49 So Myrrs........Does this cause you to do the Tennessee Birdwalk or what? Spaw |
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24 Jan 02 - 03:43 PM (#634853) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: swirlygirl Why are the boney things or whatever called first second and third cuneiform? Is it to do with the shape? :) xxx |
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24 Jan 02 - 04:16 PM (#634874) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: annamill 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."]
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24 Jan 02 - 04:21 PM (#634877) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: annamill ..or have you been writing dirty letters?? L.A. |
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24 Jan 02 - 04:40 PM (#634880) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: swirlygirl 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 |
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24 Jan 02 - 05:04 PM (#634886) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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24 Jan 02 - 05:28 PM (#634894) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Helen 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 |
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24 Jan 02 - 05:29 PM (#634896) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: SINSULL And here I thought that you had a new interpretation of the Rosetta Stone. |
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24 Jan 02 - 05:38 PM (#634899) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: catspaw49 And instead it seems to be a company more interested in the Rolling Stones........... .....sorry............. Spaw |
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24 Jan 02 - 05:43 PM (#634903) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Sorcha 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"? |
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25 Jan 02 - 09:06 AM (#635220) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Mrrzy 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... |
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25 Jan 02 - 11:05 AM (#635276) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: GUEST,swirlygirl 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 |
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25 Jan 02 - 11:35 AM (#635293) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Mrrzy Good idea, swirlygirl! Hmmm - I'm still thinking of the possibilities... |
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25 Jan 02 - 05:17 PM (#635586) Subject: RE: BS: Atavistic Cuneiform From: Bob Bolton 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
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