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BackSlash Marshal Galactic Navy
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 Cadet
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 Vice Admiral
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.
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I couldn't resist.
On a side note, what the hell are you talking about?
-Axalon
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Doran Chief Marshal Galactic Navy
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 Vice Admiral
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 Chief Marshal
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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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 Chief Marshal Galactic Navy
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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BackSlash Marshal Galactic Navy
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 Grand Admiral Sundered Weimeriners
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 Chief Marshal Galactic Navy
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 Vice Admiral
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 Fleet Admiral Fatal Squadron
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 Grand Admiral 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 Marshal Courageous Elite Commandos
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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