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·anno scorso·discuss
Extremely impressive decipherment results for this script, a long-standing challenge in epigraphy. The methodology seems very sound, and while allographs can make or break confidence in decipherments, their treatment is very convincing and leads to logical and consistent readings. In many ways this is a model treatment of how to set out deciphering an unknown script with a suspected relation to a known language.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
I had a pair of these transceivers when I was in my teens, from a somewhat later period, thanks to my grandfather who refurbished them from his time as a telegrapher at Western Union. Synchronization at startup took ten seconds or so while each unit adjusted its timing and apparently sent a correction signal to the other, drums whirling all the time and gradually matching initial positions. It looked like the most primitive process possible, but worked every time.