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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
Posted: 2005-10-14 12:01   
WTF buddy?

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The letter A probably started as a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-semitic alphabet.

By 1600 BC, the Phoenician alphabet's letter had a linear form that served as the basis for all later forms. Its name must have corresponded closely to the Hebrew aleph.

When the Ancient Greeks adopted the alphabet, they had no use for the glottal stop that the letter had denoted in Phoenician and other Semitic languages, so they used the sign for the vowel /ɑ/, and changed its name to alpha. In the earliest Greek inscriptions, dating to the 8th century BC, the letter rests upon its side, but in the Greek alphabet of later times it generally resembles the modern capital letter, although many local varieties can be distinguished by the shortening of one leg, or by the angle at which the cross line is set.

The Etruscans brought the Greek alphabet to what was Italy and left the letter unchanged. The Romans later adopted the Etruscan alphabet to write Latin, and the resulting letter was preserved in the modern Latin alphabet used to write many languages, including English.



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UNI0N
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Joined: September 20, 2005
Posts: 12
Posted: 2005-10-14 12:05   
Im not going to quote Jack, but Yeah what Jack said.
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Axalon
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Joined: June 15, 2003
Posts: 442
From: East Windsor, NJ, USA
Posted: 2005-10-14 14:40   
[Backy mode]

This could be solved by a PM. Do not clog the forums with this silliness as Faustus is a busy man and this somehow will impede on his development cycle.

[/Backy mode]

I couldn't resist.

On a side note, what the hell are you talking about?

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Doran
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Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
Posted: 2005-10-14 14:41   
i got Q


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On 2005-10-14 07:42, Placebo wrote:
Q is the 17th letter of the Latin alphabet.

The Semitic sound value of Qôp (perhaps originally qaw cord) was /q/ (voiceless uvular plosive). In Greek this sign as Qoppa Ϙ probably came to represent several labialized velar plosives, among them /kʷ/ and /kʷʰ/. These sounds changed to /p/ and /pʰ/ respectively. Therefore, Qoppa was transformed into two letters: Qoppa, which stood for a number only, and Phi Φ which stood for the aspirated sound /pʰ/ that came to be pronounced /f/ in Modern Greek. The Etruscans used Q only in conjunction with V, symbolizing thus a /kʷ/. Some scholars claim that Q and Phi are unrelated.



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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
Posted: 2005-10-14 16:01   
This smells of rogue spear.
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Coeus {NCX-Charger}
Admiral, I can't read,
Sundered Weimeriners


Joined: February 16, 2004
Posts: 3635
From: South Philly
Posted: 2005-10-14 16:55   
Oh no, this is public WTF worthy
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Azreal
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Joined: March 14, 2004
Posts: 2816
From: United State of Texas, Houston
Posted: 2005-10-14 18:49   
I got:

Placebo

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Posted: 2005-10-14 07:40
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N serves as an alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with N is NG, which produces a velar nasal in a variety of languages, usually final in English. Aspirated forms NH and NGH are sometimes seen in other languages.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the lowercase [n] represents the alveolar nasal sound. A small capital [ɴ] represents the uvular nasal.
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Starfist
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Joined: March 22, 2003
Posts: 574
Posted: 2005-10-14 18:55   
i got this one:

The letter I derived from the Greek iota (Ι, ι). It stood for the vowel /i/, the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek) /j/ (as English Y in YOKE) was added. In Semitic, /j/ was the usual sound value of Jôd (probably originally a pictogram for an arm with hand), /i/ only in foreign words.

In English, I represents different sounds, among them a diphthong that developed from /i:/ as well as short, open /I/ as in BILL. The dot over the lowercase 'i' is called a tittle. In the Turkish alphabet, dotted and dotless I are considered separate letters and both have uppercase (I, İ) and lowercase (ı, i) forms.

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Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
Posted: 2005-10-14 19:33   
Atleast I got A

I own you all!
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AdmBito
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Joined: October 04, 2002
Posts: 1249
From: Its hard out here for a pimp
Posted: 2005-10-14 19:47   
Im not cool enough for a letter of the alphabet.

I was excited, however, when I got CHAPTER 49. INTOXICATION AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE OFFENSES from Rogue Spear. It made me feel good to know a fellow Texan knew what I was going through.
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Doran
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Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
Posted: 2005-10-14 21:12   
A, I, N, Q so far... who's good at scrabble?
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Fattierob
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Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
Posted: 2005-10-14 21:28   
you can make the work Quin.


erm. Qiun?....I'm sure thats Chinese for something.
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Fatal Rocko Willis
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Joined: March 01, 2003
Posts: 1336
From: Kentucky
Posted: 2005-10-15 01:38   
I Got U...

U is the twenty-first letter of the modern Latin alphabet.

U was originally a capital letter like J and it was only Pierre de la Ramée who made the distinction between capital and small letter.
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Drafell
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Mythica

Joined: May 30, 2003
Posts: 2449
From: United Kingdom
Posted: 2005-10-15 06:03   
I am expecting a "T" and an "E" unless its in latin, in which case...
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Sixkiller
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Joined: May 11, 2005
Posts: 1786
From: Netherlands
Posted: 2005-10-15 06:50   
and whats the word gonna be then drafell?
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