The Phoenician alphabet is an alphabet discovered in modern times from Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions found throughout the Mediterranean.
What made the Phoenician alphabet different from contemporary writing systems?
The alphabet is sometimes referred to as the Early Linear script (in the context of Semitic languages, that is) because it also represented a development stage of the Old Canaanite or Proto-Canaanite pictographic script (that is, a writing system that uses pictures to represent concepts) to an alphabetic script (a writing system that has symbols represent sounds, more familiar to most readers here). This new script also marked a change from a multi-directional writing system, where any direction could be used, to a fixed system where all writing went from right to left.
What makes the Phoenician alphabet important?
Well, its immediate predecessor, the Proto-Canaanite, Old Canaanite or early West Semitic alphabet, was the oldest fully matured alphabet system, and was derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Some writers say the Phoenician alphabet was the first, but it’s more accurate to say that it was the first widely adopted writing system.
How did the Phoenician alphabet work?
The Phoenician alphabet consisted of 22 letters, all of which corresponded to consonant sounds, not vowels. Like some other later writing systems, vowel sounds were meant to be figured out via implication and context clues. However, later on in the alphabet’s development, Matres lectionis (special consonants used to indicate which vowel to use) were sometimes used. The individual letters themselves were angular with straight, not curved, lines, mostly because the alphabet was intended to be written with a stylus.
Who used the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician alphabet was used to write what are referred to as the Early Iron Age Canaanite languages. That is, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite and Edomite, and Old Aramaic. Its use in Phoenicia (the coastal Levant) led to its spread far outside of its region of origin, with Phoenician merchants spreading it far and wide across the Mediterranean. Many cultures adopted and modified the alphabet into their own alphabets, including the Aramaic, Samaritan, several Anatolian, and the early Greek alphabets. Later, in the classical Middle East, the Aramaic alphabet became especially successful, leading to the development of, among other scripts, the Jewish Square script and the Perso-Arabic scripts.
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Alphabets are nice. Wouldn't be typing this way without it, I reckon. :posting:
r/antiwork is so fucking weird, 1.3 million people talking about how much they hate work but its not leftist, its just "work bad". Like the description of the sub is "A subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more information on anti-work ideas and want personal help with their own jobs/work-related struggles.". Not "work for yourself and your community, not to make your boss richer", but straight up "do not work". And half the popular posts there are the exact same exchange: boss texts worker asking them to come to work, worker says they cant because of circumstances, boss is an asshole, worker quits with epic clapback. It feels like the sub was created based off of the words "work is killing me" and absolutely will not elaborate further
Nah fuck that I’m canceling work and staying home to watch Star Trek with my dog :comfy: :doggo-matapacos:
Maybe we’ll go to a park later
I love Christmas music but changing every reference of Israel to Palestine gets exhausting. Did you know in the Arabic dub of Animaniacs when Yakko sings all the nations of the world he skips Israel and just says Palestine twice? Now there's a two state solution I can get behind.
Every UN resolution is like "children shouldn't be starved to death", with near unilateral support and the US voting against.
pop songs in the 1960s: I want to hold your hand, barbara ann come take my hand, under the boardwalk we'll be having some fun, let's do the twist
folk songs in the 1960s: american culture fucking sucks, i will personally fuck up every single government official, where are the union men i need to support them with my entire being
pop songs were also super rapey and I don't that's changed very much
every single song was like "she was only 16 and she's mine" just the worst shit possible
There was someone in the ydsa at my college that posted on /r/cth when it was still around
I wonder if she was online enough to move to hexbear. Didn't really know her, but went back to her apartment one evening with some other people to smoke weed and there was this dude arguing with her about Israel and mansplaining like no tomorrow(he got wrecked).
Hope she is thriving
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what the fuck. i thought i was a savior for banning group activities. they were the bane of my existence in college, what the fuck has tiktok done to the zoomers that they would ask for this kind of torture
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No dawg, they weren't brave, they were desperate. Being a leftist and consuming any kind of media is so frustrating, makes me feel like a real sourpuss when I pipe up and say "AKTCHUALLY..."
Remember the sharia law bullshit when Trump was running and how there were all these chuds praising America because women don’t need a male escort (like they give a shit), but they’re fucking wrong anyway. If my wife goes out in the weekend without me she has to invoke my existence like a ward against demons every ten minutes or else men won’t leave her alone. Absolutely no respect for her autonomy as a person who can make decisions for herself. And even then half the time they won’t listen. Just fucking burn it down :feminism:
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Fuck America and its car bullshit. I just wanted to walk my dog to the next neighborhood that is literally next door to my apartments and it’s a huge pain in the ass.
No sidewalk, had to walk through a fucked up ravine with a bunch of trash and broken glass. Can’t fucking go anywhere without a car, shits whack