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To: Spiff
If you lived in the 19th century and you were to translate an entirely foreign language...

Correction:

Translate a language that never existed.

165 posted on 10/22/2005 11:35:49 AM PDT by AlaninSA (It's ONE NATION UNDER GOD...brought to you by the Knights of Columbus)
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To: AlaninSA
Translate a language that never existed.

Don't be so sure. See the article "Jewish and Other Semitic Texts Written in Egyptian Characters" for an interesting discussion of "reformed Egyptian."

168 posted on 10/23/2005 7:41:50 AM PDT by Logophile
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