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A replica of the Rosetta Stone. Pressing any of the characters on the stone is the same as typing the character. This would enable one to write in Greek, Egyptian demotic and Egyptian hieroglyphics, possibly with some letters missing in Greek and definitely most of the characters missing in the other
two.
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An object unquestioned in it's power since Moses himself appeared disguised as a book. |
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Google translate allows transliterate typing. The rosetta is only a
translation. |
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"Wheatsheaf, eye, wiggly line, man in boat, feather, feather,
thing with four legs and tail (possibly crocodile or leopard), sort
of pointy thing- can't make it out- could be a tent, squashed. ..
hedgehog? Are there hedgehogs in Egypt? Maybe an anteater,
knife, croissant (or could be a crescent moon). |
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Yes, there are hedgehogs across the whole of North Africa, but a different species or race than in Northern Europe, but there are no anteaters because apart from the Eocene Eurotamandua, xenarthrans are entirely New World. However, yes, the flexibility vis a vis the non-alphabetic scripts would be very limited. |
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Another possibility would be to use the Javanese alphabet poem as a keyboard. |
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Would it be as heavy as the actual stone? |
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If Apple made it, no, but after a few minutes use it would
become too hot to touch. |
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And if Microsoft made it, then it would crash every ten minutes. |
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