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someone should make a "hungry horus". i would laugh at that.
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Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:02,
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They'd have had to have guessed at them ;)
"Hmm, 'cckng wnkr'. Any idea what that is Ptnobbius?"
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Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:04,
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"Hmm, 'cckng wnkr'. Any idea what that is Ptnobbius?"

The actual "text" of Hierglyphics used symbols as words, phonomons (kind of like cockney ryming slang) or even associative reebus meaning (something like we might use a rooster to represent a CDC).
BUT; they also used cartouches. Which were a set of symbols enclosed in a rectangle which were meant to be sounded out to form a proper name.
HOWEVER; you're right that they didn't have vowel sounds, they didn't really have consonents either. Just some sounds that were more like sylables.
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Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:14,
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BUT; they also used cartouches. Which were a set of symbols enclosed in a rectangle which were meant to be sounded out to form a proper name.
HOWEVER; you're right that they didn't have vowel sounds, they didn't really have consonents either. Just some sounds that were more like sylables.

I feel I've learned something today.
*lubes*
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Fri 2 Jun 2006, 11:16,
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*lubes*