However, he did make two accurate observations: the tablets were administrative records, and the script was a syllabary, where each symbol represented both a consonant and a vowel, mixed with characters that each represented a whole word.

不过，他的确做出了两项准确的观察：这些泥板是行政记录；文字是音节文字，其中的每个符号都代表了一个辅音加元音，并融进了一些代表整词的字符。