(06-10-2019, 01:02 AM)Monica Yokubinas Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.it is a shame no one understands a lost language like Aramaic.
Aramaic is a living language. The interest of Aramaic to most people who deal with it is largely historical, rather than for day to day use, and its heyday as a medium of communication is long gone. But there are still a handful of villages in Syria and Iraq where people speak Aramaic at home, and consider it their native language.
I imagine that being a native Aramaic speaker nowadays must be a fairly marketable skill in and of itself. I know that the making of the movie
The Passion of the Christ using native Aramaic-speaking actors, brought a wave of much needed money and international attention to this threatened ethnoreligious community.
Edit: As for the OP, I'm having trouble seeing the practicality of a tight group of pre-modern cannon all touching each other, unless they were packed on a ship for transport. Loading and firing them in a group like the VMS purportedly shows seems impractical and dangerous to me, from what little I know about heavy artillery.