Could Greek Letters be Pictograms of Mouth Parts
παραδίδωμι paradidōmi
Do these Greek letters look like the shape of the mouth and tongue when making the sounds? P is a flat mouth at the top (on the outside; the lips) and it flares out back (down) and on the sides (the cheeks). It's seen looking down on the top from behind. A is obvious compared with some others. It is a wide open chamber in the middle, with the lips on the top and bottom (the shape would represent a mouth seen from the side and imagined into).
R is a bit harder to visualize, so we won't add it into the evidence here, but go back to discern it once we're more sure of the existence of what we hypothesize that we're seeing. It's possible that they even pronounced it differently, which is just something to remember if we prove the overall system more (and then it would still be an exploratory starting point rather than a hypothetical conclusion to test, like I'm making for these other letters). (I wonder if there's a better way to denote trains of thought than our parenthetical phrases? Just wonderin' along the way!)
D is more obvious again. It's the tongue making a chamber and flattening at the top on the teeth. I is a bit harder, and we might come back, but I think it's just easy enough for primary evidence on its own. The mouth makes a line, even though it's open, and the tip of the tongue is jutting out between the teeth, hanging apart from that line. Again, this letter is harder, and more certainty is needed to regard it as even a hypothetical conclusion, but more, I think, than just guessing, like with the R. We must look and discern and think, and that's what this document is doing. That's what Christians can do in a fundamentally better way than Worldlings (and it might be why the great lookalike of Islam was so scholarly through the centuries of the ancient past). We know the Truth, so we look for it more sincerely.
O looks like the mouth chamber is rounded and the tongue is hanging in the middle (but, in comparison with the dotted I, it's not jutting forward enough to appear like a separate entity, so it's seen as an attachment to the back of the mouth). These are the features of the mouth parts when making the sounds - or so it looks like to me. What do you think?
M seems harder again, but maybe it references the main feature of its sound-making, with the lips coming together in a line and slightly rounded.
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Talk to me, siblings! I want to hear your voice. We only have this meager device between us, but, with God, all things are possible. Perhaps we can know each other through it enough to be useful for each other, dear Christian.
Do these Greek letters look like the shape of the mouth and tongue when making the sounds? P is a flat mouth at the top (on the outside; the lips) and it flares out back (down) and on the sides (the cheeks). It's seen looking down on the top from behind. A is obvious compared with some others. It is a wide open chamber in the middle, with the lips on the top and bottom (the shape would represent a mouth seen from the side and imagined into).
R is a bit harder to visualize, so we won't add it into the evidence here, but go back to discern it once we're more sure of the existence of what we hypothesize that we're seeing. It's possible that they even pronounced it differently, which is just something to remember if we prove the overall system more (and then it would still be an exploratory starting point rather than a hypothetical conclusion to test, like I'm making for these other letters). (I wonder if there's a better way to denote trains of thought than our parenthetical phrases? Just wonderin' along the way!)
D is more obvious again. It's the tongue making a chamber and flattening at the top on the teeth. I is a bit harder, and we might come back, but I think it's just easy enough for primary evidence on its own. The mouth makes a line, even though it's open, and the tip of the tongue is jutting out between the teeth, hanging apart from that line. Again, this letter is harder, and more certainty is needed to regard it as even a hypothetical conclusion, but more, I think, than just guessing, like with the R. We must look and discern and think, and that's what this document is doing. That's what Christians can do in a fundamentally better way than Worldlings (and it might be why the great lookalike of Islam was so scholarly through the centuries of the ancient past). We know the Truth, so we look for it more sincerely.
O looks like the mouth chamber is rounded and the tongue is hanging in the middle (but, in comparison with the dotted I, it's not jutting forward enough to appear like a separate entity, so it's seen as an attachment to the back of the mouth). These are the features of the mouth parts when making the sounds - or so it looks like to me. What do you think?
M seems harder again, but maybe it references the main feature of its sound-making, with the lips coming together in a line and slightly rounded.
~~~
Talk to me, siblings! I want to hear your voice. We only have this meager device between us, but, with God, all things are possible. Perhaps we can know each other through it enough to be useful for each other, dear Christian.