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Re:Enigmatic Ancient ‘Unknown Kushan Script’ 60% Deciphered ... by JoeAltmaier on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:47AM (#36746935)
Early forms of many written languages had no phonetic values. We're talking history here, so 'has ever existed' seems a gross oversimplification.
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Re:Enigmatic Ancient ‘Unknown Kushan Script’ 60% Deciphered ... by thaumasiotes on Sunday July 16, 2023 @06:32PM (#36752091)
It isn't possible to produce a written text in purely ideograms for the obvious reason that there are no coherent linguistic utterances in which every word has some semantic content. We can be confident that what isn't possible has never been done.
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