Hieroglyphs: Spelling

[surfahgirl77]

There are no strict spelling rules in Egyptian writing. In the place of spelling stood aesthetics.

Beauty as a Rule for Spelling: Whatever spelling looks right is correct. Aesthetic considerations are almost the only limit to the different ways in which hieroglyphic text can be written, and that includes even the direction of the writing.

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[page93]

that's rahd, i nevar thot writing as it looks most like it sounds is the waye it started! :P

[surfahgirl77]

hh, wll try wrtng wtht vwls. ;]

Of all 700 signs, there are no vowels. It's purely a consonantal system, like 'unpointed' Hebrew and Arabic.

Aesthetics was more important than anal correctness.

=P