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This video is really cool. It's a curator talking about what is on the stone and why. They were supposed to be put in every temple in Egypt and were done so for many years, which is why so many have been discovered since the original famous one.

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[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 48 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In German, rosetta is a slang for butthole and whenever I hear Rosetta Stone I imagine a kidney stone trapped in an anus.

My favorite pizzeria is also called rosetta and it grosses me out but I have accepted that them stamping every pizza with their butthole is justified if it makes that good of a pizza.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 17 points 3 months ago

stamping every pizza with their butthole is justified

You Germans and your kinky porn.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the pizza think comes from the type of butthole they have in the French city of Lyon:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette_de_Lyon

[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Their la rosetta pizza has beef, arugula and parmesan as toppings btw.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

Aha well that was my explanation out the window

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We can finally discover what happened during the void century

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna have to make a buster call.

[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

yes zoro, thats the marine right there

[–] Paraponera_clavata@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Do we know what they were called in their time (obvs not Rosetta)?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Rosetta Stone 3.4.5 ~ Language Learning [PC ~ Multi]

/s of course

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I don't think we do, but my guess was it would be something very simple like "Pharaoh Ptolemy's temple decree" since it was supposed to be in every temple of every size.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

It may not have had one for all we know, it's named after the modern town is was discovered in

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Alrighty then...

Picture this, if you will