Re: [tied] ancient script

From: Daniel Baum
Message: 31431
Date: 2004-03-13

It's not April 1 today is it?


Not bad though, you actually had me reading your spoof until I got to:

DU-MI-NE-QA “Sunday”, noun, acc., fem, sg, Latin dominicus, Italian
domenica, French dimanche, Romanian dumineca

Strange how I never realised that the Minoans were Christians!


Daniel



Lisa Darie wrote:
> Dear Cybalist Members,
>
> At the start of the 20th century a British archaeologist Sir Arthur
> Evens discovered in the Palace of Knossos from Crete some clay tablets
> written with a mysterious scripts called by him Linear A and Linear B
> dating from the first half of the second millennium BC. Later, other
> inscriptions were found at various Cretan archaeological sites. I would
> like to present to you my tentative decipherment of the language of
> several Linear A inscriptions