reflection paper 6

Writing began 40,000 years ago, but it was not sentences, or even paragraphs. It all started with symbols and pictures. In Southwest Asia their simple pictures were used as labels for basic farm production. This was helpful so they could teach the other citizens how to practice the same structure before they got into the business. Kind of like teaching, we are taught different subjects before we go into our jobs, and learn hands on experience. Southwest Asia had developed out of economic convenience. They used their symbols to show other factories in the town how to run the way they do, because they are more efficient at what they do, and get things done. These ancient cavitations had changed the way how others looked at communication. Communication was not only done by conversing with one another, but they could also drawl things and as long as it had the symbol that everyone will recognize they could converse through that. What they didn’t know is later down the years other towns and societies would be able to use the same message. They would take there experience and expand on their knowledge. The more complex pictographic tokens who also devised to label manufacturing goods were the Sumeria. The Sumeria was also used for their writing for economic data purposes. They maintain their society in pictographic token, what they need, what they were running out of, and what they should invest more in. Sumerians developed a writing system known today as cuneiform. These two great ancient cavitations helped established the invention of writing by putting it down whether it was writing or symbols. There was documented proof of what other societies went through, whether it was their struggles or times that simply eased by. Later on we learned to make symbols into sounds. Different symbols had different definitions from what the world originally meant. English spelling is unbalanced and often dependent on semantic factors as well as phonetic factors don’t make it any less of a true writing system.