vocalization speculation

Perhaps boring, meaningless and filled with gobbledegook for those not familiar with epigraphy, but still very interesting: an old set of list posts from Rostau listmembers that discuss Ancient Egyptian transliteration issues.

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okay, so only *I* and the crazy people that post to such things find it interesting, but that's neither here nor there. A delightful find of yesterday's while I was working on transliterating some names for some friends- a phoentic and messy business- and had to explain the vileness of following the poorly set out guidelines of P22's Hieroglyphic font (meaning no disrepect, I use the font all the time. But the values they assign glyphs are wrong just wrong.)