Re: Vulcan & Egyptian?
Adam Ophir Shapira 
Mon, 9 Mar 1998 09:08:42 +0100

At 10:15 AM -0800 2/21/98, Patrick J Ferree wrote:

>The car commercial. The one with the slogan, "Wider is better." (Just
>when you want to remember a name....) They say something like, "Today the
>onscription still reads..." and they say Wider is Better in Egyptian.
>(Apparently)  It sounds a lot like Vulcan to me, although I haven't
>studied the language personally, and am only basing this upon a
>commercial; It is why I asked if anyone else noticed a similarity due to
>some on this list's language education.

I seriously doubt that the car commercial was serious about
anything other than convincing people to buy a certain kind
of vehicle. I do not think that it would be considered even
a remotely serious source of information regarding the form
of language used in Egypt.

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