第二种是“同音词”。它是由字母符号、数字组成的，听起来像别的单词。

The second kind of word is a "homophone" - it's created by combining letters and symbols, or Numbers, to sound like other words.

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这是因为在他们的语言中，每个符号或字母只代表一种声音。

This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language.

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杰西卡已经迅速浏览了那几行，其中既无大写字母也无任何标点符号。

Jessica had rapidly scanned the lines, none of which boasted a capital letter or any punctuation.

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The letters, the design of the writing comes, in fact, from Asia, probably from--almost certainly from Phoenicia, the land that is now called Lebanon and the language that was for that script was Semitic language.

事实上,材料中的字母和符号都来自,亚洲,很可能来自--应该能肯定是,来自腓尼基,就是现在被叫做黎巴嫩的地方,书稿的语言用的是闪米特语

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I think I mentioned to you that the Greeks improved upon it and made it a true alphabet by taking some signs that they didn't need for their own language by turning them into vowel sounds.

我想我向你们提到过希腊人将这种字母表改良,并使其成为真正的字母表,他们把一些并不需要的符号,变成元音使用

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Now, once you know each of those, you can now do 25 more upper case letters and 25 more lower case letters then there are some other stuff like punctuation and things you see on the keyboard.

一旦你知道两者中的任何一个，你就知道了另外25个,大写字母和小写字母,标点和在键盘上的,各种符号也有ASCII码。

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