<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cpleppert</author><text>I guess I’m skeptical as to what is being claimed here. There have been various attempts to use the Greek phonetic values and logograms of Linear B to reconstruct Linear A equivalents. The only known sentences partially deciphered are votive formulations. Knowing the sound values doesn’t really help you anyway as we have virtually no information on Linear A at all.  It’s pretty hard to understand  sign equivalencies if you can’t even understand how a sign is being used.&lt;p&gt;The article is pretty vague; I’m not sure what these sign equivalences are supposed to be.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/13/minoan-language-linear-a-linked-to-linear-b-in-groundbreaking-new-research/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Clewza313</author><text>Is there a better source for this?  Under all the breathless hype (&amp;quot;astonishingly, the internet itself may be the key that unlocks the link between the languages&amp;quot;) it sounds like all that&amp;#x27;s being claimed -- not even proven -- is stronger evidence that Linear A and Linear B are related.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Minoan language Linear A linked to Linear B in new research</title><url>https://greekreporter.com/2021/05/13/minoan-language-linear-a-linked-to-linear-b-in-groundbreaking-new-research/</url></story>