In the 1960s, language loosens up, gets hip, pop, streetwise, characters are much more complex, and the chronology becomes intricate, making of the reader an active participant in the deciphering of the text.
Or something like that; even the natives have trouble deciphering aspects of the text.
Heiberg deciphered much of the text and took photographs that he worked on in Copenhagen.
I can't decipher much of the text from the GI article, but it appears that you won't be able to use the Rock Band drum kit on GHIV, which shouldn't surprise anyone.
Deciphering as much of the text as can be read in reverse on the outside layers, he has found a succession of numerals accompanied by the word for "cubit" and a word that may mean either "buried" or a place a ditch or a cave in which something might be buried, as well as phrases such as "above," "on this side," "in the room," that seem to refer to locations.
Although Tischendorf worked by eye alone, his deciphering of the palimpsest's text was remarkably accurate.
The message and the bottle will be on display at Hamburg's maritime museum until the beginning of May after which experts will attempt to decipher the rest of the text.
It's the deciphering and the absorbing of the text, however, usually based on personal experience and outlook, that makes it hit in different ways.
Dr. Qimron spent more than a decade deciphering and reconstructing the text of the scroll, known as M.M.T., initials of the Hebrew words for "Some Precepts of the Torah".
This is the idea that students ought to learn to read by deciphering the text -- preferably nonfiction, by deciphering the text without regard to other knowledge and without any personal reaction to the text.
Thanks to a bilingual text, the deciphering of the writing system had already started in the late 1940s, but it was only through a complete revision of many of the previous readings that she and Hawkins were able to establish in 1973 that the language behind the signs was not Hittite, as previously thought, but Luwian, another Anatolian language already attested in cuneiform documents.
