Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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The comb, the comb looking.
Remember I said there was a word for cacao?
It's the exact same one.
And so what they did was they started plugging in those glyphs in every example they could find and being like, is there another word we can make out of this?
And they looked at every dictionary they could find.
Anything from the colonial period, anything modern, anything of that sort.
And basically, that's how they did it.
They sort of pieced it together.
And so between that and it turns out that there are logographs, right?
There are plenty of logographs.
Combining those two things together, they were able to sort of piece together words, and we've been doing it ever since.
Think of it as like extreme Sudoku.
It's kind of what it is.
This one fits, but this one doesn't fit.
How does this work?
It can only be this and this and this.
It's extreme Sudoku.