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- From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
- Subject: Re: Hi Alfvaen
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.052944.27961@atlantis.uucp>
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:29:44 GMT
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- Thomas J Lee (tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
- : "Maybe we should start our own newsgroup," says the Lamplighter to
- : Amanda and Alfvaen, "for language-loving physics types. I remember being
- : fascinated by codes and ciphers in grade school, and in high school a friend
- : and I sent messages back and forth in Tolkien's Elvish letters."
-
- "Great. CFD--sci.phys.lang. Maybe sci.phys.lang.cipher, because I was also
- a cipher nut. And what are alphabets and languages but other ciphers, eh? I
- never learned Elvish, but I do know Greek and Cyrillic, even if my Georgian is
- a bit rusty. I know a dabbling of Devanagari, and have Hebrew, Arabic, and
- Thai written down somewhere waiting for me to commit them to memory. And, of
- course, I've invented a couple of my own along the way..."
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
- "Give me your mirth. It bores me when you weep. My loves you cannot touch. They're buried deep." ---Don Marquis
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- Current Read--Tesseracts4
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