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28902: RE: [MUD-Dev] Scripting Languages and Magic

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From: "Crosbie Fitch" <crosbie@cyberspaceengineers.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:12:07 +0100
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
From: Sheela Caur'Lir

> I'd almost say, that the only alphabet that does not put several
> meanings behind every single letter, is the latin one ... which is
> the one used across the western world nowadays.

Maybe there is a current field of study, 'archaeophilology' or
"archaeological linguistics', that is already attempting to
reconstruct a rune or ideographic basis underlying old english
simply by cataloging all the syllabic meanings and
inventing/matching a symbol for each?
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