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I wonder how you would even know if you have “cracked” it, given the corpus is so small?
by bazoom42 4mo ago
I wonder how you would even know if you have “cracked” it, given the corpus is so small?
- Kosturdistan 4mo agoYou know you have cracked it because using the proposed system you are able to translate the uncracked language. Also helpful if your proposed system for Linear A makes sense relative to related languages that are not Linear A. Tom's proposed phonetic values work for more than one language.
- bazoom42 4mo agoNot questioning the particular finding, just wondering in general. E.g when linear B or hieroglyphs were cracked, you could check angainst other untranslated texts and see if the translation still made sense.