The Endangered Alphabets Project Releases a New Book of Puzzling Word Searches
Brookes, who has a dry British wit, laughed when asked who the target audience might be. Then he offered insight into how puzzles written in rare scripts such as Coptic (a hybrid of Greek and Egyptian) and Syriac (a variant of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus) might inspire conversation about the role of language in preserving imperiled cultures. "What I'm really hoping is that some of these really interesting issues about symbol processing and cognition and language emerge out of this," he said. Though they're short, Brookes and Walsh's puzzles are fiendishly difficult to solve. F...
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