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[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

--- On Sat, 28/8/10, Jerry Offner <ixtlil at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  ... It is important to keep in mind that the glyphic elements do not always match up
> with the actual, "on the ground" meanings, as the Nahua enjoyed playing with their
> own language while writing glyphs,  but, overall, these look more obvious and
> promising than many. ...
     
This has happened in medieval England, where sometimes on a tombstone the buried man's name was written in letters and also as a rebus; and "canting arms"
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms ). One tombstone example was the surname Barton drawn rebus as a bar (= wood or metal beam) and a tun (= barrel), whereas the name's real etymology is Anglo-Saxon "bere-tu_n" = "barley farm".

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