Writing 2210F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Standard Written English, Proto-Germanic Language, Vowel Length
16 Jan 2017
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The basics of grammar and history of modern english. The importance of this can(cid:495)t be over-estimated (cid:498)alphabet: (cid:523)( (cid:886)-5) A late technological development in human history. Depends on this code that is situational or referential in nature. (cid:523)we(cid:495)ve been around as a species at least (cid:887)(cid:882),(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:882) years(cid:524) Understanding a pictographic speech depends on a precise situational code only known by speakers. Potentially huge library of characters (too many) So it works perfectly well, but the information and knowledge needed to read it, never mind write it, is massive. Simple images can convey at least 4-5 different meanings. Requires a minimum set of at least 40,000 characters to be known and. Elaborate code markings that give us information. There were speech groups that used this, they were stylized pictures used to. All human languages work by using a fixed number of significantly. The smallest units of significantly contrasting sound in any language. The smallest units of meaningful sound in any language.
