Hi Dick,
You wrote of Egypt's early writing,
>Sounds tentative to me. Let's see if it makes it into the history books
before
>we jump off the Sumerian band wagon and onto an Egyptian band wagon.
>
>If it turns out Sumerians were not the first to write, that's fine. They
still
>learned to write before the Accadians did. After all, that is the point I
was
>making. Are you questioning that?
Haven't looked into that one so I will take your word for it.
>Also, what happened to their writing? At the time Sumerians were writing
>poetry, Egyptians were still making hieroglyphics.
Sorry, Dick this is either a joke or a really silly statement. With
pictographic languages one can express any thought known to man or ever
conceived of by man. Chinese, a language I have some familiarity with, is a
pictographic language and I can assure you they can discuss quantum physics
or the philosophical niceties of Plato and they can express some very
incredible poems which can be structured as western poems or structured as
the chinese do, which is very different from what we are used to.
Hieroglyphics can be used to create poetry, just as Chinese pictographs can
be used to create some very interesting poetry. Surely you were joking
above. I will give you the benefit of the doubt on this one and assume that
you reeled me in on your rod and reel. Yep, you got me on that one.
glenn
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:33 PM
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Subject: (Maybe) The first writing wasn't in Mesopotamia
Hi Glenn, you wrote:
Your statement is at least 2 years out of date. There are at least two
earlier contenders for the title of earliest writing;
First, Egypt:
Writing May Have Begun in Egypt - Archaeologists
Also, what happened to their writing? At the time Sumerians were writing
poetry, Egyptians were still making hieroglyphics.
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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