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He models writing's development as a movement from pictograms to symbols to ideograms to sounds and consonants, with each innovation making language more flexible.
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Language Flexibility
He models writing's development as a movement from pictograms to symbols to ideograms to sounds and consonants, with each innovation making language more flexible.
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"So, what this is saying is, if you work for me, I promise to give two people two bushels of wheat, okay? And so,..."
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"So, now you have a concept, an idea, day, okay? We call this an ideogram. And guess what, guys? Chinese is an ideogramic language...."
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"And we call this the alphabet. Does it make sense? Okay? So, this is the development of writing. And the reason why we do..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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