Cuneiform : Images And Images

“Will We All Speak Emoji Language in a Couple Years” was written by Gretchen McCulloch on August 9, 2015 as a blog post on “Mental Floss”, a site geared towards broadcasting fun facts that ordinary people of today may not be familiar with. In the thesis of this article, McCulloch states that we will not speak in complete emoji language in the years to come because: “…no matter how good you are at emoji…there are some things you just can’t say clearly in any combination of little pictures” (McCulloch). One of the main supporting points used in this article is the recreation of Moby Dick, entitled “Emoji Dick”. McCulloch uses the first and second sentences of Emoji Dick to show that the emoji’s do not create a clear sentence structure and is

Emojis are a big part of our society. Emoji’s should be used, for people to have emotion in written communication. An article published by Los Angeles Times states, “But emojis quickly surpassed emoticon use for two key reasons: There’s a lot more people can communicate with emojis. “I can make an emoji that’s a whale or a penguin,” said Internet language expert Gretchen McCulloch.”I don’t even know how I would do that with emoticons”. McCulloch is saying that he didn’t know how emotion would be like without emojis. And how everyone uses them in everyday life. An article made by Big Think, and written by Orion Jones saying, “Because the tone of a conversation affects how we react, and because physical cues help set tone, emoticons are much

A. Cuneiform is the worlds first writing system. B. I thing writing is a huge advantage because you can easily communicate between cities or towns. C. I would write a epic about the pope because he seems like a cool person and fun person.

-pharaohs of ancient Egypt built pyramids tombs for their bodies and possessions after they died

As Stewart Wessel tries to text to his father he has a difficult time telling him that “my birthday party will not be on Sunday because I work late that day, but it will be on Saturday at 7pm and we will be eating ice cream at the Dairy Queen that is about two blocks away from my place.” Unfortunately Mr. Wessel is stuck, there isn’t an emoji to say that and it just will take too much of his time to type what needs to be said. In response, the Unicode Consortium who handles all the text characters has said they would immediately add this emoji to the next specification to prevent anyone else encountering this issue. Stewart Wessel said, “I’m glad that next time I need to tell my dad this I can do it with one emoji because I only use emoji.”

Has anyone ever take the time out of the day to ever think what the earliest form of writing is? The first form of writing dates back to 3300 BCE and was called Sumerian cuneiform. This early form of writing was invented in Middle East in a place called southern Mesopotamia which is now modern day Iraq. Sumerian cuneiform mainly consisted of symbols and images on clay tablets to communicate with others. Originally the Clay tablets with the Sumerian cuneiform symbols were used to represent the items they were trading in the market. Eventually the clay tablet was made into small tokens with symbols to replace the bigger clay tablets. Sumerian cuneiform was soon adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hattic, Hurrian and Urartian languages. Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian and Hittite eventually wrote the first heroic story Gilgamesh.

Cuneiform was an early form of “wedge-shaped writing” developed by ancient Sumerians around the late 4th millennium B.C. Named after the Latin word cuneus or “wedge-shaped”, cuneiform was recorded on clay tablets with pointed reed sticks. Archaeologists have located many of these tablets at various archaeological sites in modern-day Iraq. Only highly educated Sumerian scribes could actually read and write cuneiform, creating social disparities between the educated rich and the laboring poor. Other early forms of writing, such as Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian languages, were based on the principles of cuneiform.

The Sumerians invented cuneiform, the earliest known writing. They were also responsible for counting by sixties, which we use to count seconds and minutes (McEntire & Tullock, 2012, pg.24) The Akkadians were Semites, that later became Israelites. Their language dominated Mesopotamia. Archaeologists have a wealth of religious and cultural knowledge of the region through studying their language and literature (McEntire & Tullock, 2012, pg.25). Hurrians blended with the last of the Amorite population. They have many writings that were saved on clay tablets. It was through these tablets that many obscure passages in the Old Testament was able to be deciphered (cite book pg.26). Arameans or rather Amorites otherwise known as westerners were a nomadic

Most petroglyph are naturalistic illustrations of what the ancient people see and perceive. We are able to decipher the animal with animals we have in the present as well as animal fossils discovered over time. The carvings are a language of the ancient civilization that expresses art, religious meanings and beliefs, warnings of natural occurrences, special events and ceremonies. Each unique marking that may confuse us hold special meaning to the people of that time. The mythical creatures or monsters that seem to have come from the imagination, symbolize many things for the people, things that we may not have knowledge of. I believe that this is their language used until the writing system was created. We aren't truly able to know what these

In what became Mesopotamia, the early logographic system of cuneiform script took many years to master. Thus only a limited number of individuals were hired as scribes to be trained in its reading and writing. Only royal offspring and sons of the rich and professionals such as scribes, physicians, and temple administrators, were schooled. Most boys were taught their father's trade or were apprenticed to learn a trade. Girls stayed at home with their mothers to learn housekeeping and cooking, and to look after the younger children. Later, when a syllabic script became more widespread, more of the Mesopotamian population became

The reliefs from the palace of King Assurnasirpal II at Nimrud play an important role in portraying the power and importance

Linguist Neil Cohn researches how humans are programmed to use visual communication. In other words, people prefer drawing to convey their point. It's no wonder communicating digitally with emojis is a no-brainer.

Linguist Neil Cohn researches how humans are programmed to use visual communication. In other words, people prefer drawing to convey their point. It's no wonder communicating digitally with emojis is a no-brainer.

In the Facebook Messenger transcript between me and my friend, we commonly use emojis, for example “:-)” and “;)”. Emojis are used to show the emotion of the speaker, as it is difficult to show tone of voice and emotion through writing. When we talk to other people we naturally use facial expressions and body language to convey our meaning, as words by themselves are sometimes not clear enough, or we may want to emphasise a point we are making. In the case of sarcasm, the winking emoji may be used to make the comment seem joking and playful and to avoid causing offence. Without the emoji, the recipient may misunderstand. When my friend and I were talking about a piece of homework we had been set, she asked “do it 4 me?? ;)”. I knew she was joking because of the use of the winking emoji. Emotion is more of a visual aspect so the use of emojis is typical of multi-modal communication. We rely on facial expression and body language to ensure the message is clear in real life, so we use emojis in digital

These images or symbols are better known as emojis, a small digital picture used to express concepts, thoughts, and feelings that written words alone cannot and their usage is on the rise, “In May of 2015 Merriam-Webster officially added emoji to the dictionary” (emogi). Emojis are steadily becoming commonplace in digital communications to a point where, “Emojis are used by 92% of the online population” (emogi). It is becoming ever more apparent that emojis are not just a simple passing fad, but a permanent piece of human communication. This is especially true for the use of emojis in the workplace. Technology has changed the landscape of the work