Ok, that's funny!
And I had no idea Ancient Egyptian used pronouns. I thought it was just pictographs things with nouns, verbs and adjectives! Very interesting. What does she want to pursue as a career when she grows up? I know she's still young, but does she have any ideas??
Okay, I just asked my daughter about the Egyptian stuff... This is what she said.
"They did have pronouns, mostly for determining what verbs are referring to... sorry, that's not the best explanation. It was a whole language, with nouns, pronouns, verbs, everything. Like, 'Tell me' transliterates in English as djed-i, with the i meaning, well... I!" (She gave some more examples at this point, but I stopped her.) She went on to say, "We only know how they sounded because of a couple times Egyptian words are written in Greek. Since Egyptian only uses consonants."
She was literally bouncing up and down with excitement at this point. I told her thanks, that's enough and started trying to finish up this post.
Except she just came back!
"I keep thinking spoken Egyptian must have been confusing, because they had so many words that sound exactly the same. In written Egyptian the identically written words are told apart by a special sign at the end called a determinative, of which there are a whole lot, each one meaning something different. For example, the word seti with its basic meaning to shoot, can mean anything from to set on fire, to pour water, to stare, or to glitter, depending on the determinative at the end. In spoken Egyptian it would have all relied on context."
Oh, lordy. "I think that's enough, honey. Thanks!" She's still bouncing.
"I'm just excited," my daughter explained. "I love this stuff, and I'm actually getting to explain it to someone!"
FWIW, she says she knows exactly what she plans to do with her life. She's going to do her undergrad locally. Then she'll apply to med school. Once she's accepted in med school, she's going to enlist the Officer Medical Training Program with the Canadian Army, and get them to pay for it. That's her first plan. Her backup plan is to get a doctorate in a branch of the sciences - preferably biology - and go to work for the Canadian gov't. (Hopefully Agriculture won't be still firing all their scientists by time she's in the job market!)
She's been going on about being a doctor since she was four. She cried on her first day of kindergarten, because they wouldn't teach her to be a biologist. Me, I think she'll make a terrific research scientist someday. But whatever she ultimately decides, I really, truly just want her to be happy. And find someone who will love and cherish her, her whole life.
Languages are not my strong suit at all though. 
