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[โ€“] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same here. By around 3rd grade I had taught myself how to phonetically read/write hieroglyphs. So I would write all sorts of English stuff in hieroglyphs, but I still couldn't actually understand ancient Egyptian.

[โ€“] shneancy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

somehow my brain did a flip and i did the same but with nordic runes (elder futhark to be exact). now i'm catching up and trying to learn some ancient egyptian in my free time