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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [TMG] TMG 5.09 and Grandfather's autograph book
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 09:29:05 -0600
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Sorry, I meant Paleographer/Palaeographer. I couldn't spell it and got distracted looking it up. Anyway, he had given a lecture on early american handwriting.

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On 9/1/03, at 02:26, Eric Haas wrote:

>Sunday, August 31, 2003, 9:45:48 PM, Stuart Armstrong wrote:
>
>SA> I have also observed that relatives who have never known each
>SA> other sometimes write the same. I told this to a palaeontogist one
>SA> time and he said "Oh, that's nice", and turned away. He either
>SA> didn't believe me or thought I was irrevelant.
>
>I'm not surprised. Paleontologists generally study the fossil remains
>of animals who died hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago;
>most of their subjects never learned to write. <g> An archaeologist or
>anthropologist might find your observations more relevant.


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