Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who Spotting Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:26:54 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:26:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d5a83a6a833044d7c8519d6337b9babb"; logging-data="23186"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18P+tpnPsjuVQyRYGQFbuUA9s9GjU6Xtic=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:pVT9PEBRX5Fx3A4wIPDeFB9hwqg= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3063 The Last Doctor wrote on 15/6/24 10:31 pm: > Daniel70 wrote: >> Your Name wrote on 14/6/24 8:29 am: >>> On 2024-06-13 10:21:15 +0000, Blueshirt said: >>>> Daniel70 wrote: >>>>> Blueshirt wrote on 12/6/24 10:59 pm: >>>>>> >>>>>> You wait til we start talking about the Irish language, we >>>>>> don't even have 26 letters in our alphabet! >>>>> >>>>> More or Less?? >>>> >>>> Less. There's only 18 letters in the Irish alphabet. >>> >>> The Rotokas language of New Guinea only has 12 letters in the >>> alphabet (and two of those letters sound the same!). :-p >>> >>> The Khmer language of Southeast Asia has 74 letters in the >>> alphabet, including 24 dependent vowels and 12 independent >>> vowels. >>> >>> The Chinese language has over 50,000 symbols (many are only >>> historic usage), but only 24 basic characters. Japanese, >>> originally based on Chinese, has similar numbers. :-) >> >> In my viewing of Archeological-type Ducos, I've other wondered how >> many Hieroglyph the Ancient Egyptians used. > > Over 700, but they were of differing types WOW!! And I can just about manage 26!! ;-) > - logograms, which were literal images of objects - eg “eye” meant > “eye”; phonograms, which were an expanded alphabet - 24 > single-consonant hieroglyphs, plus some two- and three- consonant > symbols (with implicit vowels) ; determinatives, symbols that > clarified the meaning of the preceding hieroglyph; and strokes used > for numbers etc. > > With variations there were actually thousands of symbols but most > people wouldn’t have known what most of them meant. The phonograms > evolved into the middle-Egyptian Demotic script as the other > hieroglyph types faded away as scholars needed to understand each > others work, and then later into Coptic. > -- Daniel