Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Cuneiform Vs The Todays English Alphabet

Hieroglyphics, Cuneiform, English and other are other types of writing (excluding English, it's a language). So, what do these have in common? Nothing really, them come from different parts of the world, but they are a way of translating things or writing them for future reference. When you look a Cuneiform, and hieroglyphics you probably think "wow, this looks hard to remember". If you gave your writing to them, most likely they will say your writing is hard, why? Because they started to learn theirs at a young age just like you did. But then the writing just started. From the cuneiform and hieroglyphs you see started much simpler. The cuneiform was very simple with drawings. Drinking water would be a head and water (simple right). Yeah, simple enough, but there was one problem, no one wanted to have to draw drawings, from what we see today lines make up our letters. There advanced writing started too look like dashes or commas on a general outline of the picture. So you could guess the picture pretty much. from that step things got much more complex, the dashes were re-arranged to make it faster and simpler to write, but harder to learn. So the class wrote in the complex cuneiform, and I can tell you right now that this was pretty hard(even with the letters infront). Everything looked the same, with dashes.Letters got messed up and an unrelated thing is we had to paint it, making hard for people reading my horrendous drawing/writing. If painting was not hard enough, the Mesopotamians used clay and a sharp stick, then they waited for it to dry. So my summary is that I like my writing and I dont like theirs. In other words the writing was good enough for contracts in the markets and keeping track of livestock, but just doesnt cut it today.LIKE COME ON!!! WRITING ON A COMPUTER WITH CUNEIFORM OR HIEROGLYPHS?

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