"pellow" and "melk"

[Benjamin Barrett]

The claim that hieroglyphics in general merely represent sounds is of
course the result of not grasping the entire story perhaps as a result
of changing the channel before finishing the program.

BTW, are spelling "later" as "latter", using "about" after the verb
"saw", inconsistent capitalization, and spelling "prove" as "proove"
ways to encourage truspel?

Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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> No joke.  Saw about deciphering Egyption writing on the history channel a
> few days ago.  Basically the frenchman had the theory that the signs stood
> for sounds and tried for 20 years to proove it.  One day he got it and went
> to his brother and collapsed on the floor.  Came to a few days latter and
> showed  his findings.
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>
> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
> See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.
>
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>> From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
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>>> The alphabetical principle holds that letters stand for sounds.  We find
>>>
>> now
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>>> that even Egyption hieroglyphic symbols stand for sounds, and we can
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>> speak
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>>> the writings of 5,000 years ago because of this.
>>>
>> ....
>>
>> This is all a lengthy, elaborate joke, right?
>>
>> Bethany
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