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2023-04-13 21:24 dustin  
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i designed this extra cave because i liked  krissz 's guess for the "m" letter so much!  krissz  suggested that the letter "m" might be based on a heart-shape, and although that wasn't correct (we saw that "m" is based on a water wave instead), i still like this guess because it looks so plausible to me! :d   
  
so all what follows is not historically correct, but it's fun! :d  
  
m for heart (abc history)  
  
in the next cave of his journey, ^ learns that the letter "m" is not only in the middle of the alphabet, but also the centre of life itself! also its exponential growth resembles much the behaviour of many creatures!  
  
history of the letter "m":  
  
| the egyptian root is likely a hieroglyph for a heart (see the ΘΘΘ shape in the cave), which was adopted into the proto-sinaitic script without much change.  
  
| as usual, the phoenicians simplified and geometrized this shape, so that their 13th letter kind of looked like an open book (see the ΔΔΔ shape at the bottom). they called their letter "mama", which was the phoenician word for "heart".  
  
| the ancient greeks further simplified the shape by deleting the "v" shape at the bottom of the letter, so that their "my" already looked much like the modern latin "m" (see bottom-right ||| shape).  
  
| no considerable changes by the etruscians and romans.  
  
cave difficulty: 3/10