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Ways of Writing - From Cuniform to Emoticons

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:08:42 GMT

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Writing takes many forms. Picture writing incorporates recognisable images and symbols. Thought writing communicates with more abstract symbols, each of which represent words or ideas. Sound writing systems use marks or letters that stand for sounds. Many scripts use a combination of all of these forms.

Explore the following pages to discover more about the ways in which we write:

Picture writing

Thought writing

Sound writing

Mixed writing systems

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Picture writing

Picture writing, also known as pictography, is one of the earliest forms of writing

pictograms

The Sumerians

created the earliest known pictograms in around 3200BC

known as cuneiform

combined pictograms and phonograms

At around the same time

Egyptians were formulating their own system of pictorial signs known as hieroglyphics

Pictograms can be used to communicate as quickly and simply as possible

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Thought writing

known as ideography. The symbols that make up an ideographic script are ideograms

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Sound writing

phonetic

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Mixed

systems

What is Normal?

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:59:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a horrible affliction!

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What is Normal?

I can't answer your question but I can help you diagnose them...this is from DSM-XV, not yet released but I am working on it...I am almost done categorizing the main disorder. Okay here it is:

Diagnostic criteria for NPD: Normal Person Disorder

A chronic feeling of normalness.

A tendency to bore others easily.

A nagging sense of constantly meeting one's goal.

Lack of difficulty getting organized.

Inability to be humorous.

Knowing how to count without forgetting what number you are up to.

An inability to be creative and intuitive, no seat of pants to fly by.

Highly stimulated by lectures, speeches, dead cockroaches and other normals.

An unbroken remote control.

A To-Do list which gets done.

A chronic interest in each or any of the following for more than a week:

Job
Relationship
Schedule
Patience
Passing Grades
Sex
Normals

A methodical nature.

Affectionately known as "Bump on a log" or "Nytol Substitute"

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I and Thou

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:10:11 GMT

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Ich und Du, usually translated as I and Thou, is a book by Martin Buber, published in 1923, and first translated to English in 1937. Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways: that of the "I" towards an "IT", towards an object that is separate in itself, which we either use or experience; and that of the 'I' towards 'THOU', in which we move into existence in a relationship without bounds. One of the major themes of the book is that human life finds its meaningfulness in relationships.

For "I-It" relationships, the "It" refers to entities as discrete objects drawn from a defined set (e.g. he, she or any other objective entity defined by what makes it measurably different from other living entities). It can be said that "I" have as many distinct and different relationships with each "It" as there are "Its" in my life.

By contrast, the "I" in the "I-Thou" is a separate concept.

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Katie Price Launched Lingerie Line

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:27:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When you envision a lingerie event, usually only the fittest and trimmest models will do, but Katie threw conventional wisdom out the window and invited a variety of body-typed ladies to show off her new line.

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Katie Price launches her lingerie for fashion label “George at Asda” at The Worx in London with the help of six members of her fan club.

Never Pick A Fight With Finland

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:24:05 GMT

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What Does Hell Cost?

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:22:59 GMT

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War is hell - deadly, dangerous, and expensive. But just how expensive is it?

Glad you asked. If we consider the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan together - which we might as well do, since we and our children and grandchildren will be paying for them together into the distant future - a conservative single-week estimate comes to $3.5 billion. Remember, that's per week!

By contrast, the whole international community spends less than $400 million per year on the International Atomic Energy Agency, the primary institution for monitoring and preventing the spread of nuclear weapons; that's less than one day's worth of war costs. The U.S. government spends just $1 billion per year securing and destroying loose nuclear weapons and bomb-making materials, or less than two days' worth of war costs; and Washington spends a total of just $7 billion per year on combating global warming, or a whopping two weeks' worth of war costs.

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