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   Message 56,175 of 57,854   
   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   
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