The Alphabet

[guncrasher]

An ox is a castrated bull.

yes but bulls were rare as only used to mate, while ox was used as a farm animal.


semp

[sparky127]

Was that semp or MyLow in that video at 1:30?

[MiloMorai]

Was that semp or MyLow in that video at 1:30?

Something who goes by the nick of sluggo.

[Bizman]

Big Bird is your type of program. semp told you about 'B'.

This is more my type of program.

Discover how writing—and eventually printing—revolutionized the spread of information.

Writing and printing are perhaps the greatest inventions of all time, changing the course of human history through the spread of ideas. In this two-part series, NOVA explores how writing began and reveals the astonishing origins of our own alphabet. Then, researchers investigate the origins of the printing press, which kicked off the Industrial Revolution and led to swift technological advancement and the expansion of cultures.

https://www.wxxi.org/highlights/2022/08/nova-z-first-alphabet

That's a program I'd like to watch as well!

[bj229r]

 Alphabet was Russian invention, duh.

[Bizman]

Alphabet was Russian invention, duh.

That must be fake news! They don't even use it in the form as we know it! And their writing is based on Greek letters which coincidentally start by Alpha, Beta...

[GasTeddy]

That must be fake news! They don't even use it in the form as we know it! And their writing is based on Greek letters which coincidentally start by Alpha, Beta...

Russians use Cyrillic alphabets which were created by brothers Cyril and Methodius during the time of the First Bulgarian Empire. So those spare parts of an excavator are not Russian alphabets but have Bulgarian origin.

[Bizman]

Russians use Cyrillic alphabets which were created by brothers Cyril and Methodius during the time of the First Bulgarian Empire. So those spare parts of an excavator are not Russian alphabets but have Bulgarian origin.

Exactly. And the previous form of that was the Glacolitic Alphabet (also created by Cyril and Methodius) which in turns was based on Greek Alphabet. Apparently the Greek Alphabet didn't work too well with the Old Church Slavonic language - spoken Greek differs a lot from spoken Slavonic languages so obviously some alterations had to be done to tell the reader how to pronounce the words they read.

[CptTrips]

I'll check that out.  I love stuff like that. 

It gives a deeper appreciation of the world around you when you learn more about the how things got the way they are.  The fact that we use the vestige of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in our written language today is just too awesome.

Another thing like that that intrigued me when I first learned it was the days of our week. 

We have 7 day weeks from the Babylonians who based them on the 7 celestial bodies visible to their naked eye.

(Not the Babylonian names of course)
Sun
Moon
Mars
Venus
Jupiter
Mercury
Saturn

Some of those were later Anglicized to:

Sun day  = Sunday
Moon day = Monday
Saturn day  Saturday

Others were replaced with Anglicized references to the Nordic pantheon:
Tīw's Day =  Tuesday
Woden's Day = Wednesday
Thor's Day = Thursday
Frigg's Day = Friday

A full moon cycle became a moonth or month.

[MiloMorai]

Alphabet was Russian invention, duh.

If you watch the program you will see that Russian alphabet, as well as Arabic,  is derived from earlier alphabet.

[Meatwad]

Russian alphabet was created so that drunk Russians would still be able to read/spell/and write

[icepac]

[bj229r]

If you watch the program you will see that Russian alphabet, as well as Arabic,  is derived from earlier alphabet.

I think NOT

[sparky127]

Well...  There's something you can Chekhov your list.

[MiloMorai]

I think NOT

Think Not what? Watch the program or the Russian alphabet.