COMS 200 Study Guide - Web Design, Arpanet, Consumerism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 200
• Professor: all

Document Summary

The alphabet has linearity, order, based on memorization, presupposing that everyone has knowledge of a shared language. The alphabet was also implemented in the school system so that these concepts can be learned early on in development in conjunction with learning pronunciation of the oral language. 10: ancient phoenician and ancient greek were two different languages. Greeks had to make some changes: greeks added vowels, added a couple of new signs, had to undergo a period of localization before it could become standardize (eastern and western version and then halted with the middle ages), the full potential of the alphabet was only fully realized after the invention of the printing press, the greeks did a lot of than invent alphabet they created literacy. Therefore, this allowed for the expansion of knowledge because brain was liberated from the burden of memorization.