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Hieroglyphics (slrpnk.net)
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I'm carving this into the pyramids where it doesn't belong, to throw archeologists for a loop

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see at least 5 hieroglyphs and now that I know what they mean I'd like to have them parsed in detail, thankyouverymuch.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know literally nothing about hieroglyphs, but I found all the individual symbols (I think):

π“„€ π“†‘π“‚‹π“…±π“­π“„–π“Ž‘π“­

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Cool! Putting these in a search engine one by one, I get

  • The first three are used to describe β€œbeautiful,” β€œperfect,” or β€œgood:” 𓄀𓆑𓂋 1
  • π“…± = quail chick, used also for the plural word ending (I'm going with this, because the other meaning is "Field, district, region")
  • 𓏭 = plural, majority, collective concept (e.g. meat, jwf), duality. Can be used as a replacement for signs perceived to be dangerous to actually write. (I can't really make sense of this one, maybe it's just some sort of stress)
  • π“„– = Hindquarters of leopard or lion <= aha!
  • π“Ž‘ this apparently only has a phonetic value of 'k'???

I learned a little about hieroglyphics today. Just enough to realize they are both complex & well researched.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Late response, but Wiktionary puts cat's ass and plural quails together to mean buttocks (I wish I'd found this before manually looking up each symbol!):

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/p%E1%B8%A5wj

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

puts cat’s ass and plural quails together

The order doesn't seem to matter though!