+191 It's odd to think what an ancient egyptian spelling bee must have been like. For example, "Spell construction." "Squiggly line circle triangle sguiggly line dot moon dot." "//Oh//, sorry! You forgot another squiggly line," amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It wasn't just random figures, it had meaning. It's like if the word cat for us was "triangle circle triangle whiskers paws tail". Anyone would guess it right.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm aware of //that//. I was too lazy to bother to look up the ancient egyptian language for my joke. My bad.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I doubt that Egyptians had spelling bees.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

..it'd be pretty cool though.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You don't "spell" things with a symbolic language. The same way you don't "spell" words with sign language.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

..okay. //Draw// the word then?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Finger spelling

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The 'letters' in the ancient Egyptian language had sounds. They didn't just say what the symbol was a picture of.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

.... Okay, thank you. Again, I didn't look it up for my post...which was meant to be a joke. My bad.

by Anonymous 11 years ago