Throughout of Animism and The Alphabet, David Abram has mentioned about the alphabet’s partial fault of disconnection from the natural world. He has a suggestion as alphabet has been shaped by natural influences around it. For instance; he has talked about our own tracks, our footprints, our handprints in mud or ash pressed upon the rock. These are the early marks that people used to copy these distinctive prints and scratches made by other animals to follow an animal to hunt or follow their own tribes. After, they drew outlines onto the walls of the caves and have tried to communicate or express their ideas or their daily routine to next generations. “Tracing the impression left by a deer’s body in the snow, or transferring that outline onto
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Before the real alphabet, around 3000 B.C.E(page 30) Old Egyptian people has used pictograms as called hieroglyphics; as well as in China around early of the fifteenth century, Chinese people has used pictographic systems. The pictorially derived systems were lack of our whole sensory participation. For instance; our own human-made images on the walls of caves has their own interpretation for each people. Our ancestors have used their whole sensory participation as body languages, signs. Especially, I believe they had used their own imagination to draw these images with using their drawing skills on the walls. Voices and gestures of the environment around them has shifted away from the pictorially derived …show more content…
This might be the reason that they have tried a lot to create a general way to write as with pictorially derived systems after the images on walls of caves. However, yet still the pictograms were not adequate people to refer for certain terms as lack any precise visual perception that exist in daily converse. Furthermore, it should have been so challenging to memorize each ideograms as well. “Ideographic scripts must make use of a vast number of stylized glyphs or characters, since every term in the language must, at least in principle, have its own written character. In 1716 a dictionary of Chinese- admittedly an extreme example- listed 40,545 written characters! Today a mere 8,000 characters are in use.”(page 32) I believe, this might also have avoided people learn how to use and write with these ideograms. Solely, a few highly trained individuals were able to read and write. As a reference of Abram’s writing, the first fundamentals of writing was developed by Semitic scribes around 1500 B.C.E. The semitic scribes were called as aleph-beth. “ The original Semitic aleph-beth, then established a character, or letter for each of the consonants of the language.”(page 32)Accession of the aleph-beth, has caused a distinct distance between human culture and the natural world. Doubtlessly, although pictographic and
Before the real alphabet, around 3000 B.C.E(page 30) Old Egyptian people has used pictograms as called hieroglyphics; as well as in China around early of the fifteenth century, Chinese people has used pictographic systems. The pictorially derived systems were lack of our whole sensory participation. For instance; our own human-made images on the walls of caves has their own interpretation for each people. Our ancestors have used their whole sensory participation as body languages, signs. Especially, I believe they had used their own imagination to draw these images with using their drawing skills on the walls. Voices and gestures of the environment around them has shifted away from the pictorially derived …show more content…
This might be the reason that they have tried a lot to create a general way to write as with pictorially derived systems after the images on walls of caves. However, yet still the pictograms were not adequate people to refer for certain terms as lack any precise visual perception that exist in daily converse. Furthermore, it should have been so challenging to memorize each ideograms as well. “Ideographic scripts must make use of a vast number of stylized glyphs or characters, since every term in the language must, at least in principle, have its own written character. In 1716 a dictionary of Chinese- admittedly an extreme example- listed 40,545 written characters! Today a mere 8,000 characters are in use.”(page 32) I believe, this might also have avoided people learn how to use and write with these ideograms. Solely, a few highly trained individuals were able to read and write. As a reference of Abram’s writing, the first fundamentals of writing was developed by Semitic scribes around 1500 B.C.E. The semitic scribes were called as aleph-beth. “ The original Semitic aleph-beth, then established a character, or letter for each of the consonants of the language.”(page 32)Accession of the aleph-beth, has caused a distinct distance between human culture and the natural world. Doubtlessly, although pictographic and