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To: Red Badger
:^) Hieroglyphs were used for formal stuff, but the Egyptians also had hieratic and demotic and were comfortable using cuneiform for diplomatic correspondence.

10 posted on 08/05/2019 8:41:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I read somewhere that cursive was invented as a protest against the PRINTING PRESS!..................🤔
13 posted on 08/05/2019 8:43:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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