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(, Fri 2 Jun 2006, 10:46, archived)
someone should make a "hungry horus". i would laugh at that.
(, Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:02, archived)
They'd have had to have guessed at them ;)
"Hmm, 'cckng wnkr'. Any idea what that is Ptnobbius?"
(, Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:04, archived)
The actual "text" of Hierglyphics used symbols as words, phonomons (kind of like cockney ryming slang) or even associative reebus meaning (something like we might use a rooster to represent a CDC).
BUT; they also used cartouches. Which were a set of symbols enclosed in a rectangle which were meant to be sounded out to form a proper name.
HOWEVER; you're right that they didn't have vowel sounds, they didn't really have consonents either. Just some sounds that were more like sylables.
(, Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:14, archived)
I feel I've learned something today.
*lubes*
(, Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:16, archived)







