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Author: turtoni
Date: Jun 27, 2008 18:58

... had been conflated, that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes. For example, a comma-...to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence ...
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Author: turtoni
Date: Jun 26, 2008 20:56

... meanings, such as the experiencing of emotion. As languages evolved, most words lost their direct representational content and became progressively ritualized until their iconic beginnings were entirely ...> mind is guided by epigenetic rules, powerful enough so that the combined languages of the world, and probably all the languages that could evolve with any ease in the future, ...
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Author: Immortalist
Date: Jun 26, 2008 20:53

...more internal meanings, such as the experiencing of emotion. As languages evolved, most words lost their direct representational content and became progressively ritualized until their iconic beginnings were entirely erased...is guided by epigenetic rules, powerful enough so that the combined languages of the world, and probably all the languages that could evolve with any ease in the future,...
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Author: bigfletch8
Date: Jun 28, 2008 17:19

On Jun 28, 11:15 pm, chazwin <chazwy...@yahoo.com> wrote: On Jun 28, 7:59 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jun 28, 3:13 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 27, 2:11 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jun 27, 8:53 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 26,...
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Author: chazwin
Date: Jun 28, 2008 06:15

On Jun 28, 7:59 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jun 28, 3:13 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 27, 2:11 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jun 27, 8:53 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 26, 6:40 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: ...
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Author: chazwin
Date: Jun 28, 2008 06:13

On Jun 28, 7:59 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jun 27, 10:58 pm, chazwin <chazwy...@yahoo.com> wrote: On Jun 26, 11:40 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: What was the exact date that our alphabet was completed? Who was responsible, and what were the relevent events a month prior to the completion date.? ...
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Author: bigfletch8
Date: Jun 27, 2008 23:59

On Jun 27, 10:58 pm, chazwin <chazwy...@yahoo.com> wrote: On Jun 26, 11:40 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: What was the exact date that our alphabet was completed? Who was responsible, and what were the relevent events a month prior to the completion date.? BOfL There is no exact date, alphabets like languages are organic. The last ...
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Author: bigfletch8
Date: Jun 27, 2008 23:59

On Jun 28, 3:13 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 27, 2:11 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jun 27, 8:53 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 26, 6:40 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: What was the exact date that our alphabet was completed? Who was ...
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Author: bigfletch8
Date: Jun 27, 2008 23:59

On Jun 28, 3:18 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 27, 1:13 pm, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 27, 2:11 am, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: On Jun 27, 8:53 am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: On Jun 26, 6:40 pm, "bigflet...@gmail.com" <bigflet...@gmail.com> wrote: What ...
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Author: bigfletch8
Date: Jun 27, 2008 18:32

> W was the last addition. So apply my question to the letter "W" (sounds like Sesame Street for philosophers) Yes, I do know how to read the Encyclopedia Britannica and its various offshoots. Lots of references to 'emerged from' and 'evolved'. "We" look for the origins of life, and yet nobody seems to be able to identify the day our aphabet was completed...
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