Design of Language-Alisan LeMay: Archive

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Questions

1. What details about Persian calligraphy do you want to know? the history the meaning, the metaphor,etc I would like to learn more about the evolution of it over time and how it’s used today. She mentioned there were more then one forms in use today and I was wondering if the different forms had different uses or were used in different situations 2. What is unique and different about...

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Provocation 3: Origin of the Letter U

The history of the letter u is very similar to the history of w,v and y. All of those letters got their start from the Egyptian Hieroglyph, Cerastes. The Cerastes was the origin for the Phoenicians Waw. Sometime during 800-900 b.c the Greeks adopted the Phoenician Waw and used it for the basis of two of their letters(upsilon:for the vowel u sound and digamma: for the f sound). From the...

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