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Hieroglyphics
Proper noun
Japanese Meaning
エジプトの象形文字を指す固有名詞としての用法。元々は「hieroglyphics（象形文字）」という意味であるが、多くの人々がそれを言語と誤解して、誤って大文字で固有名詞として扱っている表現。
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A miscapitalization of hieroglyphics, used as a proper noun because of the false assumption by many that hieroglyphics (i.e. Egyptian hieroglyphics) is itself a language.
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Hieroglyphics
Many tourists ask if Hieroglyphics is a single language, unaware that the capitalized form is simply a misnomer caused by treating the Egyptian pictographic script as a proper name.
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Many tourists ask if Hieroglyphics is a single language, unaware that the capitalized form is simply a misnomer caused by treating the Egyptian pictographic script as a proper name.
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