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Evolution of the alphabet
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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Fun fact, in the Arabic alphabet it starts out Alif and Ba just like alpha and beta here, and then veers way away from this chart into its own awesomely weird territory (thought German was “guttural”? try this nonvowel nonconsonant so far back in the throat you need consent and a physician’s referral) but JUST when you think you’ve lost your way, RIGHT the alphabet nears its end, you stop and stare because right there are four letters, in this same exact order, so familiar it might be a song you learned as a child: the letters K L M N.
The Phoencians took this invention to other places too, and this cluster of familiarity crystallised in the Arabic alphabet in the same order. Almost like a gene we could point to that says we had a common ancestor centuries ago, we were once so close that we learned the same thing from the same people.
“Almost like a gene we could point to that says we had a common ancestor centuries ago, we were once so close that we learned the same thing from the same people.“
Cultural genes are called memes. It’s kind of unfortunate that we usually only think of memes as jokes.
Kind of ironic that you're complaining about the evolution of language on a post about the evolution of language.
It’s sad to lose a word without which we only have metaphors to describe the concept it represents.
Just go the SCP route and call them Memetic elements or some shit. Same route just modified for clarification.
Idk. Definitions change. Like, literally
I'll take my alphabet with a side of entropy, thanks