It's pedagogic, tautologic and boring. It says if you want a good life then suck up to the king, actually worship him. I don't like it.
But I try not to let that distract from its form, from how things are said, and its fascinating arrangement of ideas, about how it begins with instruction on living correctly then ending on a tercet about death.
It has thought to it, so it's easy to see why it was popular, although they're all thoughts I don't like. And it has strong arrangement.
The online Yahoo groups with their international following would take at least six months to go through this line for line. I did this in two days, with naps, and lot of goofing around on other things, and I got more out of it than I'd get from a university class. My method is immersive. Each symbol is researched for its properties and as I go I'm seeing their properties in combinations, how they're pronounced differently in varying situations. So this time their pronunciation or their function is listed then each line reviewed for its transliteration usefulness. On the second pass about a third of them are dropped, then they're reversed for their left to right reading, then translated to English. From that we can see how translators got from pictures to English sentences, and we see how they talk about language as they dissect it. It's only five and a half minutes if you care to watch it. As it runs I can see a few mistakes I made myself, but I don't care, it's not worth going through a thousand frames to pin them down and fix it. It's all scratch notes anyway. As I go my system improves.
I don't know how the other students are learning, but it can't be anything like this.
2 comments:
Interesting, very Yahweh.
All the "CNN sux" steles were destroyed.
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