Of these demotic fragments a large quantity had been sent to the British Museum.
These papers were in two languages-Greek and demotic, or the popular language of the Egyptians.
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The main plank of these reforms was to legitimise and to introduce thedemoticlanguage into schools.
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Yet each is corrupted in its overtdemoticmessage by one or more conventions borrowed from the romance tradition of fiction.
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It is certainly ademoticusage but equally certainly not new.
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Dealing with ademotictongue, it appears in a reasonablydemoticformat.
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In this context, the baths can be interpreted as part of an emergingdemoticorientalism associated with an increasingly commercialized leisure world.
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By examining the ministry of ordinary clergymen in rural parishes, a moredemoticand responsive church almost irresistibly emerges.
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Another example is the contrast between elite games and thedemoticgames of chance, the latter representing the goal of personal gain and the former the reproduction of (aristocratic) values.
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While they overlapped with the ideas of elite radicalism they were moredemoticin origin and formulation and acted as an ideological bridge between the educated minority and the masses.
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These visual statements propelled the idea of evolution out of the arcane realms of learned societies into the ordinary world of humor, newspapers, anddemoticliterature.
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Or could there be both, in a continuum from the consistent (and elitist) through the inconsistent (anddemotic), to the 'illiterate', 'broken', and 'fractured'?
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On the contrary, it has long been a city engulfed in writing, as well as in a swirl ofdemoticmyths, transmitted in written as well as oral form.
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The actress is thus literally owned by her immediate public, but owned also by a vastdemoticconsumership whom she might never encounter in the theatre.
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The result was the first extensive body of literature written in thedemoticdialect, a move whose influence on subsequent writers can not be overstated.
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Some of the hieratic copies containdemoticnotations, but no purelydemoticform of the text has been found.
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Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic anddemoticequivalents.
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