Page 36 - Southern Exposure - February '24

Page 36, Southern Exposure

It’s the Law

Did You Know That, In Florida…

By Adam S. Gumson, Esq.

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Book revieW from page 35

from an adaptation of the Chinese
that dates back to the 600s A.D. … In
Chinese script, each symbol denotes a
whole word of the Mandarin Chinese Local Government on page 33
language. We call such symbols
‘logograms’ (from two Greek roots
meaning ‘word letter’) … It does not
operate by conveying sound; it conveys the idea behind the
word. … Example: See the Chinese symbol for the word
“Middle” in the logogram above.
“An alphabet enjoys one huge advantage over any other
writing system: It needs fewer symbols. No other system
can get away with so few. This makes an alphabet easier to
learn. Students need memorize only two dozen or so letters
to begin building toward literacy … Compare our 26 letters
to the Chinese system, which involves at least 2,000 symbols
for educated daily reading and writing, out of an inventory
of about 60,000 symbols overall.”
Here is an example of how the letters of today’s alphabet
have taken
their shapes.
The following,
fr om the
chapter about
the letter A, is
the caption that appears in the book below the diagram
on this page marked “Diagram A.”
“The evolution of the ox. (1) Letter aleph, the ‘ox,’ as it
appears in one of the Wadi el-Hol inscriptions from about
1800 B.C … Unlikely as it seems, this pictorial image was the
earliest form of our letter A. Today the horns of the ox remain
with us, unnoticed, in the upright legs of our A. (2) Aleph’s
shape looks simpler in another early Semitic inscription, Upscale Resale
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Letter Perfect a true joy to read is author David Sacks’s
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evident in his introductory page to the chapter about the letter
“V,” which features a photograph of Winston Churchill in a
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