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|    SolomonW to All    |
|    Re: Future key to cracking long dead lan    |
|    12 Dec 18 21:23:58    |
      From: SolomonW@citi.com              On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:06:28 -0800 (PST), Oh so rich & successful JTEM       wrote:              > There's no shortage of ambiguity in the English scans.       > The solution worked out was a rule of threes. In other       > words, if three proof readers agreed on the correct       > reading of a word, they went with that word. The massive       > problem with ancient languages is that there are so very       > few people who can red them in the first place, much       > less dedicated a lot of times to proof reading. And what       > competent readers they are all draw on a very small, very       > limited pool of educational resources to learn their skills.              In time, software may learn how to do this.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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