Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
by Kosturdistan on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:33PM
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You know you have cracked it because using the proposed system you are able to translate the uncracked language. Also helpful if your proposed system for Linear A makes sense relative to related languages that are not Linear A. Tom's proposed phonetic values work for more than one language.
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Re:Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle
by bazoom42 on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:52PM
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Not questioning the particular finding, just wondering in general. E.g when linear B or hieroglyphs were cracked, you could check angainst other untranslated texts and see if the translation still made sense.