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Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing
BBC News ^
| Monday, October 22, 2012
| Sean Coughlan
Posted on 10/22/2012 8:03:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
...but he says that after more than 10 years study much remains unknown, even such basic words as "cow" or "cattle"... Context is everything. Once you get the rest the little things fall into place.
Send lawyers guns and money the "cow" has hit the fan!
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posted on
10/22/2012 9:52:18 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
To: DManA
You know that once they claim it's been decoded, someone will come along 10 years later and prove it's something totally different. It almost makes me want to carved a stone with gobblety goop and bury it in the backyard in hopes someone digs it up in 5000 years.
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posted on
10/22/2012 10:05:25 PM PDT
by
bgill
(Evil doers are in every corner of our government. Have we passed the time of no return?)
To: SunkenCiv
Civ, you come up with all sorts of interesting articles. Thanks for posting this one.
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posted on
10/22/2012 10:08:59 PM PDT
by
Two Kids' Dad
(((( America or 0bama. You can't choose both. ))))
To: 50sDad
ITS A COOK BOOK! To Serve Man
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posted on
10/22/2012 10:10:20 PM PDT
by
sauron
("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
To: SunkenCiv; Revolting cat!; JoeProBono
IBTIAGTM comments
(In Before The It’s All Greek To Me!)
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posted on
10/22/2012 10:40:55 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
To: a fool in paradise
Dude, it's a variation of a tea cracker the Euros call the Petit Beurre! I just bought a package that was made in Turkey
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posted on
10/22/2012 10:45:49 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
Beats me how it takes FORTY FIVE MINUTES to get the system to accept this new topic, but when it comes back to show it's been posted, there are two replies ahead.
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10/23/2012 3:19:46 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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10/23/2012 3:21:55 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Two Kids' Dad
Thanks, but Renfield posted it, and I agree, it’s a nice find!
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:30:52 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: DManA
That jumped out at me too.
could be about to be
I'm using that in the next report to my boss: "That project could be about to be finished."
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:32:44 AM PDT
by
Textide
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:40:52 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/23/2012 3:45:05 AM PDT
by
ZinGirl
(kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe it’s Old Egyptish from that Joseph Smith fellow!
To: SunkenCiv
Oogum oogum boogum boogum
boogum now baby you’re castin’ your spell on me...
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posted on
10/23/2012 4:27:22 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
To: GeronL
Of course without knowing what the sounds mean, this alphabet is worthless In deciphering the Rosetta Stone, Champollion made the assumption that the language used in the Hieroglyphics was related to modern Coptic. From what is known of ancient middle eastern languages it may be possible to make inroads once sounds have been reconstructed.
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posted on
10/23/2012 4:56:17 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
To: 50sDad
You're showing your age. Then again -- so am I ;-)
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posted on
10/23/2012 5:08:10 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
To: GeronL
Decoding individual letters is one thing, but why do they think they know how to pronounce the letters?
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posted on
10/23/2012 5:15:16 AM PDT
by
Pecos
(Double tap: the only acceptable gun control)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I have been trying to study Korean, knowing how to pronounce the letters/symbols does nothing to tell me what the words mean. Now if the know of a similar language that they can study it would probably help.
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posted on
10/23/2012 5:49:23 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
That was my point. Korean is something of an isolated language. Most languages have modern cousins, e.g., German and Dutch, any of the Scandinavian languages with one another, all of the Slavic Languages, most of the Romance languages except French. Manx and Erse. Hebrew and Aramaic and Arabic.
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posted on
10/23/2012 6:12:26 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Spoken Korean did get mothered by Chinese long ago, but written Korean is very different from other Eastern languages. Chinese might have thousands of different symbols but Korean has 24. Plus the subject-object-verb order is a bit strange to me.
Some of the literal translations are funny. “His neck is dry” means he is thirsty.
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posted on
10/23/2012 6:26:49 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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