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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by josefx on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:58PM (#35604966)
> Hieroglyphic systems are "non-phonetic"

Wasn't there at least one that just encoded letters almost identical to the alphabet we use?

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Re:Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong by wl on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:42PM (#35606339)
The Latin alphabet is ultimately derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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