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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
>
> Oh well... I guess we'll put together a
> tomb robbing party sooner or later.
> XML is YetAnotherNotation. I wonder
> how hieroglyph engravers kept it all
> consistent.
They didn't, and it would be surprising if they had done so, what with
a three-thousand-year time depth and a vocabulary of thousands of signs.
Chinese is almost as old and has lots more signs, but is also more systematic
and has a more unified tradition.
--
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan http://www.reutershealth.com
Charles li reis, nostre emperesdre magnes,
Set anz totz pleinz ad ested in Espagnes.
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