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Ancient Amulet Discovered with Curious Palindrome Inscription
livescience.com ^ | January 1, 2015 | Owen Jarus

Posted on 01/02/2015 3:24:34 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin
Palindromes?
61 posted on 01/03/2015 4:12:20 AM PST by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow 60 posts and I’m in before the BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE post.

RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR

SIT ON A POTATO PAN OTIS


62 posted on 01/03/2015 4:17:25 AM PST by infool7 (The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
They would use a digamma to transliterate a Semitic proper name that they were including in a Greek text. However, the endings of the words don't look much like valid nouns or verbs. How could a Greek parse and ending like -ΡΑΛ or -ΑΒW? It looks like a Semitic language to me.
63 posted on 01/03/2015 6:05:38 AM PST by proxy_user
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