An experiment with phonetic writing

[ololololo]

The alphabet design and the dictation process would both require that the people involved could in fact make these distinctions to claim the result is "in [insert choice language here]". I find the other possibility, that they were just taking down sounds, and badly, hard to credit.

Then it’s unclear what kind of scribe's mistakes we’re talking about… I mentioned this earlier — if the text was poorly written, the author would simply stop and not continue. Otherwise, he wastes his time and, perhaps, even money...