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Old July 8th 04, 08:15 AM
R. Steve Walz
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Jasper PNL Mfg Co, LTD wrote:

"R. Steve Walz" wrote in message
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Freakazoid wrote:

Bob LeChevalier wrote in
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FACE wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:10:50 -0400, Bob LeChevalier
wrote:

It might have been a Greek, or a Phoenician, or
even a dark-skinned Copt or Nubian.

I have always heard that the coptic written language has no vowels and
it is long dead...nobody speaks it any more. So I wonder how they
(You know they, don't you?) determined that it was Ra and not Re or
Ru. I have heard it pronounced 'Rah' and 'Ray' but still spelled in
translation as Ra.

I think that the following answers most of your question, though it is
indirect on the "how they know"
http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm

The "how" is that they look at what Greek letters were borrowed into
the Coptic alphabet to represent vowel sounds (whereupon "r" started
being written as "ra", and then use the knowledge of Greek
pronunciation of that era. Since Coptic remained a spoken language
until the last couple of hundred years, and is still a liturgical
language (and one dialect is arguably still a spoken language - see
the cite below), it is more like Latin than like ancient Hebrew or
Sumerian in providing us a way of knowing what vowels were used. The
vowels may have changed from some earlier time, and indeed 6000 years
ago, "Ra" might have been pronounced "Ree" or "Roo", but vowel changes
are not random, so those sort of changes are unlikely.

http://www.geocities.com/remenkimi/stshenouda1.htm

lojbab

Hahahahahaha. Yeah, listen to Bob "Usenet's Biggest Idiot" LeChevalier
because he knows everything about everything, especially languages.
Heheheheheh.

Check out this stupid "logical language group" Bob "Usenet's Biggest
Idiot" LeChevalier founded:

www.lojban.org

Hahahahahaha. What a geek LeChump-a-liar is! He spent his entire life
trying to come up with some stupid new language.

Hey Bob, Esparanto failed, you know. Because it was stupid! Just like
you and your stupid langauge! Hahahahahahaha.

Flib norb gooup shlix?

Hahahahahaha.

What a moron!

Who's yer daddy, boy?!

King of SCAA

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Holger, you can't spoof worth ****.
Steve


little Stevie ****** trots out the sock-puppet excuse

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Lil BroJackAss chymes in.
Steve