Re: The Phaistos Disk, side A, according to Fischer

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 07/12/04

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    grapheus wrote:
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    > qakare@hotmail.com (Qakare) wrote in message news:<dad05270.0407110335.60ab7e71@posting.google.com>...

    > > Thank you for the info. Did you know in which reading direction
    > > Griffith was reading the text on the Phaistos Disk?
     
    > Like Ole Hagen : No direction at all. What counts is only the NUMBER of SIGNS !...

    Obviously. Take this inscription (note 1), for instance:

    LUCNOTREVALETAVUNOEL

    What counts is only the number of signs!

    Note 1. Hint: it's in archaic French, before spaces, punctuation marks,
    and lowercase letters were invented.

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