Wow!! It has been a long time since I blogged. I have received over 7000 emails since I last blogged. I definitely need to change that ratio of blogs to emails. Once my day gets going, the momentum just takes me forward, so here I am early on a Sunday morning.
I bought The Story of Writing by Hudson at the MET in NY a few years back and just now dove into it. Great book. Fascinating how some of the great LOST lanaguages (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Linear B, Mayan, and cuneiform) of the world were deciphered. Strange how an entire civilization can exist and keep exisiting and lose it's langauge and writing. Maybe the writing just shifts to the best available form for the then most commmon use. Many first ancient writings found are about keeping track of commerce-accounting of livestock and food. Today we have new technologies, and I am focusing on digital based like the internet and cell phones texting, that allow quick contact with reader. Messages can be short as abbreviated words meant to convey a tranient thought. As we use these new digital technologies, we speak less and communicate in writing more, to many more people. So, will our spoken language evolve along with our written language? In the past it appears they have been linked closely. But, using the internet, and with growing capability to store and send visual information, our writing may evolve and seperate from our spoken language. Are Twitter and youtube forms of the new writing?
Imagery will be used more in written digital communication.
