The metamorphisis of something called writing
November 20th 2007 02:57
Ah yes reading; that mile stone in human evolution that decides where prehistory ends and history begins. Well done to the Sumerians for inventing it.
Originally writing was used for record keeping and matters of piety. Only the elite members of each society could read it and for this they were much revered. Today, writing is the preferred way of getting information from Point A to Point B and is so important that a nation's literacy is one of the facts included in the majority of databases about a country.
So writing has now been delegated to the commoners, what next? Using it to record crap that's what! Alright right, all right, that was totally subjective I'll admit, but you must recognise we've come along way from scribes taking down the will of the King. Need proof, oh look, the internet! One person's official science fact sheet is another ten people's entertaining but otherwise useless PDF file.
And the style of writing; wtf? Vowels, those ever-present 5 letters that pop up in almost every English word have been largely scrapped from our repertoire for reasons unknown so our txt and IM conversations make it look like we were going to be charged extra for vowels on our key pads... bloody ad-ones. But let's not stop there when there if course the matter that we read to dissect. Religious manuscripts? Oh my Lord that's hilarious, (no pun intended) of course not. We need to know who's has cosmetic surgery, we need a page of abbreviations to let us know what makes the Jaguar XK (possible the Jaguar KX) better from ever other car known to man. Religious piety my back side, shove over the Bible, here's No Idea magazine!
Still, if we didn't have this useless jabber recorded in print form, what would we do with our bored selves? And aren’t' our lives so much richer now that we've taken that quiz to tell us when we're going to die? Of course they are. So now, if you'll excuse me, I have some totally pointless googling to do.
Originally writing was used for record keeping and matters of piety. Only the elite members of each society could read it and for this they were much revered. Today, writing is the preferred way of getting information from Point A to Point B and is so important that a nation's literacy is one of the facts included in the majority of databases about a country.
So writing has now been delegated to the commoners, what next? Using it to record crap that's what! Alright right, all right, that was totally subjective I'll admit, but you must recognise we've come along way from scribes taking down the will of the King. Need proof, oh look, the internet! One person's official science fact sheet is another ten people's entertaining but otherwise useless PDF file.
And the style of writing; wtf? Vowels, those ever-present 5 letters that pop up in almost every English word have been largely scrapped from our repertoire for reasons unknown so our txt and IM conversations make it look like we were going to be charged extra for vowels on our key pads... bloody ad-ones. But let's not stop there when there if course the matter that we read to dissect. Religious manuscripts? Oh my Lord that's hilarious, (no pun intended) of course not. We need to know who's has cosmetic surgery, we need a page of abbreviations to let us know what makes the Jaguar XK (possible the Jaguar KX) better from ever other car known to man. Religious piety my back side, shove over the Bible, here's No Idea magazine!
Still, if we didn't have this useless jabber recorded in print form, what would we do with our bored selves? And aren’t' our lives so much richer now that we've taken that quiz to tell us when we're going to die? Of course they are. So now, if you'll excuse me, I have some totally pointless googling to do.
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