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Re: Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names?
Posted By: IceWeasel <icedweasel@gmail.com>Date: 8/19/06 10:30 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names? (A passer-by)

: You may be on to something here, in a conversation with a friend I learned
: that hebrew writings read from right to left across a page.
: when the Sangheili speak (in Halo), they speak in english, but backwards. If
: the language was written down, we would have to read it from right to left
: in order to understand it...
: My apologies for replying to an out of date thread.

Holy!
Man, am I glad you found this!

Related note: Recall the booklet of "Conversations from the Universe"?
The charecters in the prophet messages look strikingly like hebrew to me (yes, I know that the message is merely in english).

Why 7 is darker



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Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names?UrsusArctos 7/25/06 11:11 p.m.
     Re: Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names?A passer-by 8/19/06 9:47 p.m.
           Re: Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names?reprobate 8/19/06 10:19 p.m.
                 Re: Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names?Cthulhu117 8/21/06 1:12 p.m.
           Re: Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names?IceWeasel 8/19/06 10:30 p.m.
                 Re: Aramaic/Hebrew Elite names?UrsusArctos 9/30/06 9:02 p.m.



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