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QI- Lost in non-translation.
KB Posted Jun 22, 2010
Well, Scandinavian runes *have* been read, yes. But these Scandinavian runes were not read, and never will be. What's *quite interesting* about it is that so many people were convinced that they *were* runes, and were convinced that they had in fact read, and translated them.
Which would tie in with "Lost in non-translation".
QI- Lost in non-translation.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 22, 2010
I will give it a couple more days, then give the answer!!
GT
QI- Lost in non-translation.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 22, 2010
Feeling generous at the mo KB....
Have +3DGI
Those 'Different Runes' are something new to me.....
GT
QI- Lost in non-translation.
Kilted-biker-in-US Posted Jun 23, 2010
Can this be the pictographic inscriptions at Newgrange in the Irish Republic which were found on the kerbstones and the grave passage stones that can only be seen on the sun- in day (I think that is Midwinter sundown)
QI- Lost in non-translation.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 23, 2010
No Kilted biker....
We have already agreed that it is the glyph script of Easter Island....
GT
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Kilted-biker-in-US Posted Jun 25, 2010
Maybe that was a copy of the US Internal Revenue Code, washed up from the sea after being thrown overboard by a disgusted wealthy Federalist on his way abroad with all his untaxed money. That's why no one can read it. Washed ashore, ink ran and bled through the paper, then slapped on the rock by the wind. Ink runs out reversed, inverted, and legalese onto innocent rock, then local natives, too disgusted to see a tax document in their fair land, proceed to chip all the ink out. Native population - radical leftist libertarians.
QI- Lost in non-translation.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 26, 2010
OK folks!
Enough is enough.
The name I was looking for, which no=one tried for is Rotorongo.
QI Ended!
Will score up later.
You are free now to Google 'Easter Island', and go to the Wikipoedia entry to find my source!
GT
QI- Lost in non-translation.
Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Jun 28, 2010
Now I've done the Google thing - I get Rongorongo for the name of the pictograms/glyphs....
QI- Lost in non-translation.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jun 28, 2010
Sorry Argon0!
I got rongorongo tooo
Touch of lilitis there!!
GT
QI- Lost in non-translation.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 14, 2010
Time to score this one!
QI- Lost in non-translation.
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 23, 2010
Scores Posted
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- 61: KB (Jun 22, 2010)
- 62: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 22, 2010)
- 63: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 22, 2010)
- 64: Kilted-biker-in-US (Jun 23, 2010)
- 65: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 23, 2010)
- 66: Kilted-biker-in-US (Jun 25, 2010)
- 67: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 26, 2010)
- 68: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (Jun 28, 2010)
- 69: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jun 28, 2010)
- 70: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jul 14, 2010)
- 71: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Jul 23, 2010)
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