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📚 What Was the First Alphabet? 📜✨
The world’s first alphabet was developed by the Phoenicians around 1050 BCE! 🌍📖 It had 22 characters and only consonants. The Greeks later added vowels, creating the alphabet we know today. The word “alphabet” comes from the first two Greek letters: alpha and beta. 🅰️🅱️ Isn’t it amazing how our writing system evolved? 🌟
The Phoenician alphabet influenced many others, including Hebrew and Arabic noscripts. It was widely used for trade, which helped spread it across the Mediterranean. 📦🌊 Its simplicity made writing more accessible, paving the way for future literacy and communication advances. 📝📚
For example, the Phoenician letter “aleph” (𐤀) became the Greek “alpha” (Α) and the Latin “A.” Similarly, “beth” (𐤁) became “beta” (Β) and “B.” This evolution showcases the lasting impact of the Phoenician alphabet on modern writing systems. 🌐✍️
The addition of vowels by the Greeks was crucial because it allowed for more precise and varied expression in writing. Before this, readers had to infer the missing vowel sounds, which made texts harder to understand. Adding vowels made the alphabet more versatile and effective for communication. 🔤🔠
Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-the-first-alphabet-119394
The world’s first alphabet was developed by the Phoenicians around 1050 BCE! 🌍📖 It had 22 characters and only consonants. The Greeks later added vowels, creating the alphabet we know today. The word “alphabet” comes from the first two Greek letters: alpha and beta. 🅰️🅱️ Isn’t it amazing how our writing system evolved? 🌟
The Phoenician alphabet influenced many others, including Hebrew and Arabic noscripts. It was widely used for trade, which helped spread it across the Mediterranean. 📦🌊 Its simplicity made writing more accessible, paving the way for future literacy and communication advances. 📝📚
For example, the Phoenician letter “aleph” (𐤀) became the Greek “alpha” (Α) and the Latin “A.” Similarly, “beth” (𐤁) became “beta” (Β) and “B.” This evolution showcases the lasting impact of the Phoenician alphabet on modern writing systems. 🌐✍️
The addition of vowels by the Greeks was crucial because it allowed for more precise and varied expression in writing. Before this, readers had to infer the missing vowel sounds, which made texts harder to understand. Adding vowels made the alphabet more versatile and effective for communication. 🔤🔠
Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-the-first-alphabet-119394
ThoughtCo
Who Invented the First Alphabet?
What was the first alphabet? From West Semitic to Greek, there was some evolution.
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Hello from Bern! 👋
From September, Swiss Federal Railways transport police will be equipped with bodycams to help de-escalate conflicts and increase accountability.
In other countries, such as the UK and the US, bodycams are already in use, and the implementation has been more or less successful, raising ethical questions surrounding transparency and accountability, such as who can view the footage, how is it stored and how is it shared.
Have you encountered bodycams where you live? How should bodycam footage be handled to ensure transparency and accountability, while also protecting the privacy rights of individuals?
Share your insights and experiences with us 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/bodycams-essential-for-good-law-enforcement-or-a-privacy-risk/87265976#utm_campaign=messenger&utm_medium=social&utm_source=telegram&utm_content=o
From September, Swiss Federal Railways transport police will be equipped with bodycams to help de-escalate conflicts and increase accountability.
In other countries, such as the UK and the US, bodycams are already in use, and the implementation has been more or less successful, raising ethical questions surrounding transparency and accountability, such as who can view the footage, how is it stored and how is it shared.
Have you encountered bodycams where you live? How should bodycam footage be handled to ensure transparency and accountability, while also protecting the privacy rights of individuals?
Share your insights and experiences with us 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/bodycams-essential-for-good-law-enforcement-or-a-privacy-risk/87265976#utm_campaign=messenger&utm_medium=social&utm_source=telegram&utm_content=o
SWI swissinfo.ch
Bodycams: essential for good law enforcement, or a privacy risk?
Did you ever come across bodycams in your place of residence and if so, how do you think the use of bodycams alter the relationship between the public and (transport) police?
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Hey, sorry to break the peaceful silence. Hopefully we will be around after Unplugust to share more interesting things than this:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/
Reuters
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
The billionaire's arrest prompted a warning from Moscow to Paris that he should be accorded his rights and criticism from X owner Elon Musk who said that free speech in Europe was under attack.
Wie gendert man Non-Binarität?
https://www.larissaschwarz.de/2019/01/24/ich-gendere-also-bin-ich-und-wenn-ich-nicht-gegendert-werden-kann-was-dann/
https://www.larissaschwarz.de/2019/01/24/ich-gendere-also-bin-ich-und-wenn-ich-nicht-gegendert-werden-kann-was-dann/
Larissa Schwarz
Ich gendere, also bin ich. – Und wenn ich nicht gegendert werden kann, was dann?
Mir geht es schlecht mit dem Geschlecht. Dem, das in der Sprache fehlt. Das nicht eines ist, sondern viele. Und welches in der Genderdebatte gern vergessen wird.
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We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
We secretly hate paradise. Our yearnings are like those of the poor wretch who hopes for the countryside in heaven. Indeed it's not abstract ecstasies or marvels of the absolute tht can enchant a feeling soul; it's homesteads and hillsides, green islands in blue seas, wooded paths and restful hours spent on ancestral farms, even if we've never had these things. If there's no land in heaven, then better there were no heaven. Better that everything be nothing and that the plotless novel come to an end.
To achieve perfection would require a coldness foreign to man, and he would lose the human heart that makes him love perfection.
In awe we worship the impulse to perfection of great artists. We love their approximation to perfection, but we love it because it is only an approximation.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
We secretly hate paradise. Our yearnings are like those of the poor wretch who hopes for the countryside in heaven. Indeed it's not abstract ecstasies or marvels of the absolute tht can enchant a feeling soul; it's homesteads and hillsides, green islands in blue seas, wooded paths and restful hours spent on ancestral farms, even if we've never had these things. If there's no land in heaven, then better there were no heaven. Better that everything be nothing and that the plotless novel come to an end.
To achieve perfection would require a coldness foreign to man, and he would lose the human heart that makes him love perfection.
In awe we worship the impulse to perfection of great artists. We love their approximation to perfection, but we love it because it is only an approximation.
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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