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Show Sounds of Words Necessary. In ordinary practice writing Is a do vico to bring to mind sounds which are well known. Unless tho sounds are well known, or can be made known by other means, the written characters fall both to convey them to those who study them or In pro-serving pro-serving them after tho language of which they aro a part has vanished. Tho written characters which represent repre-sent tho ancient languages aro easily translated by the scholar, but tho sounds are lost. Were the old orators ora-tors to come to life ngaln tho language lan-guage In which they would declaim would, In all probability, bo unintelligible. |