A is for Ox: A Short History of the Alphabet

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For example, one of the reasons some languages are read left to right, right to left, or both ways, is because it mimics the lines created by oxen ploughing fields! Television, being a visual and an oral medium must be surely doing a great job in introducing children to orality? Throughout the book, the importance of verbalism has been tried to be emphasized along with various topics.

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While TV and video games have pedagogic limitations, the author does not successfully demonstrate why trashy novels are better than classic films, why the confines of grammar are less stifling than the parameters of a video game, or why a TV show represents ``a shift from the human to the technical. Tıp ve ticari çıkarlar bir araya gelerek annelerin bebeklerin besleme biçimlerini değiştirdi, böylece kadınların evden daha kolay ayrılabilmesini sagladı. Illiteracy and television, broken marriages, drunken and violent fathers (and even mothers) are the causes. Even for a book published in 2006, I'm surprised that there is no mention of emoticons or emoji at this point, but then Lyn Davies's point here is not how a new writing system might evolve but how the borrowing of abbreviations or pictographs into another language now might mirror the way Egyptian hieroglyphs and Phoenician symbols might have been adopted and adapted to serve the needs of other languages.The book is robustly empirical, concrete in its observations and refreshingly free of jargon, as one would expect of a teacher of English. On the other hand, ‘when a teacher asks a child to sit in front of a computer in grade school, he has invoked the authority of a battery of screens—TV, movie and video. Without practice in speaking and telling stories, without the joy of playing with language, youngsters quite literally self-destruct.

Finally, after the media and rescue workers had arrived, timed bombs in the killers’ cars would explode, wiping out hundreds more. The book concludes with a short mention of modern hieroglyphs (road signs and similar pictographs) and the idea that rebus-style text abbreviations might develop into a new modern shared alphabet. The electronic medium violates the cardinal rule of conversation: the listener must be able to interrupt.Not only myths, religious texts and precepts for daily living thus got built up and handed down, but folklore and songs as well. Beginning with a history of literacy, he presents the ancient Greeks as the primary example of a people with a limited, verbal culture who flowered with their adaptation of the Semitic alphabet, which he contends not only allowed for superior intergenerational communication but also for the critical thinking that made Greek philosophy and ethics possible.

The first half of the book gives a general overview of the development of alphabetic languages and lettering in general, focusing in on Europe, while the second half examines the (speculative, in some cases) history of the shape of each letter in the modern English alphabet.From the inventors of writing (the Sumerians), through to Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, the Hittite and Chinese logograms and pictograms, to the seafaring Phoenicians who spread the developing alphabet around the Mediterranean, passing it on to the Greeks and the Etruscans who developed it further, and then to the Romans who shaped the stylised capitals and cursive forms that we're most familiar with. Among her many jurisdictions, she presided over the gemstone turquoise, which is why she was worshipped at this temple in the mining settlement of Serabit el-Khadim.