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To: R. Scott

I did hear somewhere (in a movie..) about ancient egyptians
making up symbols to use as personal identification.

So maybe a few of the symbols are real, and the last weird one is a tag. But it sure doesnt look creative enough to be a tag.


117 posted on 03/23/2006 5:55:19 AM PST by S0122017
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To: S0122017

Making up symbols as personal ID was used near the start of writing – signet rings pressed on clay, so it is reasonable. Maybe the taggers way back when weren’t as creative as today’s?


118 posted on 03/23/2006 6:10:13 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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