Re: Jaynes and Hoagland findings related??
Ted Holden (medved@access1.digex.net)
18 Jan 1995 09:23:39 -0500
scharle@lukasiewicz.cc.nd.edu (scharle) writes:
> Egyptian Hieroglyphics partially reflected the sound of the spoken
>language. They weren't just pictures of things, but a full way of
>representing the spoken speech. For example, for a word which wasn't
>easily pictured, a homonym or group of homonyms could be used (sort of
>like rebus writing).
A couple of questions... Does anybody believe they know what ancient
Egyptian sounded like; is there no other explaination for the symbol
grouping in heiroglyphics; can any such case as you make here be made
for Chinese writing... i.e. I'd always heard that Chinese writing
involved literal pictures which had been simplified to symbols over
time.
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