From: Jony Rosenne ([email protected])
Date: Sat Jun 28 2008 - 02:29:40 CDT
As far as I can see it looks more like a riddle than a writing system.
Who says riddles are a modern invention (assuming it isn't a forgery)?
Jony
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Subject: Re: Phaistos disk forgery?
At 21:18 -0600 2008-06-27, Doug Ewell wrote:
>Actually, when you consider the checkers and chess pieces and shogi
>pieces and dominoes and mahjong tiles, the Unicode encoding of
>Phaistos might be on more solid ground if it is a board game than if
>it's an undeciphered writing system.
There's nothing unsolid about the encoding. The characters are widely
known and people are interested in exchanging them as data.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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