HELP!!! How are we going to remember this?

 I guess we could write it on a calendar. I'm referring to the PBS program after the unrelated artwork.

Or, I could schedule posts on the blog to pop up and remind us.

This post is just a reminder to me - when I see it on Sunday - to set up some re-posts.

Scroll down to today's regular post.

Something I saw on Pinterest - and copied - for fun.
My apologies for not giving credit to the source.
It has a DuBosch Jubilee flavor to it.

Story of the Alphabet and Writing on NOVA/PBS 
From: John Neal
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 04:32:45 PDT 

Episode One: The First Alphabet 

September 23, 9:00pm EST

 Episode Two: How Writing Changed the World

September 30, 9:00pm EST

NOVA / PBS

Directed by David Sington and designed by Brody Neuenschwander  

 

This series has been 12 years in the making and 4 years in the filming and editing.  The first program investigates the origins of writing, seen globally. Writing was invented four times and in four places: Egypt, Sumer, China and Central America.  In each case the same steps were followed, which leads one to ask important questions about the very nature of writing.  But the alphabet was invented only once, and from this single origin spread around the world. In this program stunning footage from Australia, Egypt, China and Europe will show how hieroglyphs and cuneiform were first created and how they function in a very similar way to Chinese and Maya script. The leap to the creation of the first alphabet came in a surprising way and in an unexpected place: the wastes of the Sinai desert.  As this alphabet spread and evolved, it replaced pictographic systems everywhere except China, Japan and Korea.  In so doing, the alphabet changed the course of history.

 

The second program looks at the materiality of writing and the differences between the world's three major writing systems: the Latin alphabet, Arabic and Chinese. How do these systems function and how are they different?  How did these differences influence the history of each culture? And what part did different writing materials play in the development of written communication (papyrus, parchment, paper)?  The influence of all these factors on the development of printing will be shown, helping us to understand how the shapes of letters can have an immense impact on the history of whole societies.

 

There is a third program on "script and identity" that will not be shown in this series, but will appear later online. The manipulation of script for political purposes will be investigated, as will fascinating questions such as "how do the Chinese adapt their script to digital technology?" and "how do young people in the Arab world send text messages?"

 

For those of you who love the sculptural elegance of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the grace of the Chinese brush in action, the brilliance of medieval manuscripts sparkling with gold, this will be two hours of pure pleasure. And we guarantee: you will learn some things you never knew or even thought about!