Cracking the Omicron Code
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The Puzzles in Sudoko
Linguistics is a bit like sudoko, some serious linguists say. The only way that works is because the way tha vol and constant changes change over time, ange in a completely era methodical way. You know, if letter a changed to letter b, all as changed to b. And i found that was to me, becaus i didn't realize that was the case. I thought that it would be a lot more random, actually. But to see tht thou kind of te way that spellings and sounds change, happen all the sounds at the same time, from same thing to the same thing, t was realy fascinating.
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