Location, Stone, and Language Learning Software



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 What do a location, stone, and language learning software all have in common? Nothing unless you are talking about Rosetta. The city of Rosetta (present day Rashid) is located on the edge of the delta and the Mediterranean Sea. It was also where the actual Rosetta Stone was found. We're talking rock, not software. The Rosetta Stone (the modern day software) is named after the Rosetta Stone (rock). Is this too confusing? How about I put it this way, the software is named after the rock, the rock is named after the town. Better? Good. You're probably wondering why something modern is named after something that we could call as old as dirt. The actual Rosetta Stone, found in Egypt, dated back to 196 B.C.  The Rosetta Stone rock must have been something really important for a modern day software company to chose it for it's name!  The company chose the name because the Rosetta Stone (rock) contained three versions of the same writing on one large stone.  This allowed many different groups of people to be able to read what it said.  That must be why Rosetta Stone the software chose this for their name because it fits perfectly with what the software was going to do. So can you imagine something with the same name used as three completely different ideas?