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Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
@infobeautiful No Ω though?
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@infobeautiful It's amazing to me how many of our letters used to be backwards...
@macronencer @infobeautiful
Prior to Greeks writing was right to left, like Hebrew /Aramaic (close to Phoenician) and Arabic. Greek was RtoL till about 750 BC.
I don't know if that accounts for reversal.
Etruscan is between Greek & Roman. Swiss Celtic (500 BC Helvetii) is Etruscan & Greek letters.
Only one Cuneiform was alphabets (Aramaic Lebanon / Syria area).
Lower case is developed from script used by Irish Monks via France. Old Irish had no JKQVWXYZ.
Greek H -> E sound and H replaced by '. -
@infobeautiful No Ω though?
@gugurumbe @infobeautiful
Greek developed multiple form inc Capitals & lower case. Modern Green alphabet differs from ancient
Ω ω
Σ σ
Α α
Δ δ
Η η
etc.
It's not entirely true that the oldest alphabets had no vowels, but most were not written, bcs thy r nt lwys ndd, -
Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
@infobeautiful Good Nova episode about this https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/a-to-z-the-first-alphabet/
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Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
@infobeautiful Where will it develop from here?
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Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
@infobeautiful I've seen this picture a thousand times
it still surprises me, its so "wooow"
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@infobeautiful *Roman alphabet
Other alphabets are availablei think they asume it is the English alphabet*, cause there are no ç nor ñ's
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@cogdog @infobeautiful They completely lack vowels. Latin differs from modern alphabets in so far that there were dual-use vowels/consonants, which now are different letters, like I/J and U/V/W.
@forthy42 @cogdog @infobeautiful I think U is still a dual-use vowel/consonant, at least in English:
A Uniform.
An Umbrella. -
i think they asume it is the English alphabet*, cause there are no ç nor ñ's
@Simx72 @infobeautiful yes, Enlgish uses the Latin alphabet.
There are lots of letters/diacritics that modify it (besides the ones you note, things like ø, ó, ö, ß, ê, ł etc.), and my point is other alphabets exist - Cyrillic, Greek, so many more.
So it's not The Alphabet, was my point! -
@infobeautiful Where will it develop from here?
@PeterPractice
Unicode Emoji.
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Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
@infobeautiful Nice! That Z flex by our Roman friends is quite something.
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Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
@infobeautiful need to do a line with Palm Graffiti under it.
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Evolution of the Alphabet via https://usefulcharts.com/
@infobeautiful give back the double crossed o thing i need it
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@evan@cosocial.ca "young", "inexperienced", "small". That particular constellation of adjectives would lead to a pretty bad product I think!
The important keyword here is "small". A small but experienced team will run circles around any other combination. Age is less important (but tends to correlate with experience, one would assume.)
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Thanks to everyone who responded!
One of the persistent myths of software engineering is that a young, inexperienced, small team can make a product better and faster than an experienced team.
I haven't found this to be the case. Most of the brand-new teams I've seen have been pretty shaky.
So, I'm going to say "somewhat important".
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@stanton Happy birthday!
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It’s the time of the year when the Earth circles the sun, and I age another year on this planet. I will have traveled around the sun 37 times, what a ride. I remember the earlier rides fondly but seeing the traction Inkwell has received is making this next trip unknown and exciting.
With that said, you might notice I’m less active on here and slower to respond to feedback. However, I’ll be back to my regular schedule next Monday. I set up a monitoring stack to keep an eye on the health of the site so I should get notified if anything breaks.
If you are reading this, thank you, and glad to have you on the site!
Cheers,
Stanton
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@evan Experience is certainly important, though whether through job or hobby makes little difference except that in the latter case, since you have less time for it, you're acquiring it a bit slower
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@evan Very important, but of course they must start somewhere to be able to gain the experience.
