Rosetta Stone
If you were given the job of creating a new "Rosetta Stone", which three languages would you choose, and what would you write on it?
Salem
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What's wrong with Sumerian, Egyptian, and Greek?
jwenting
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GrimJack
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I guess I would go for:
English (or Dutch, German, etc)
Chinese
Arabic
Why? Because these three are very different from each other. From char-set to idiom and grammar.
This would increase the change that someone could translate at least one of them.
Nick Evan
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English, C and Babel (as in the fish).
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