Reflection on Cuneiform

Reflection on Cuneiform Writing Activity:

When we had first started the activity thought that writing cuneiform would be a piece of cake, i was wrong. Cuneiform for me at least was a bit difficult to write , especially getting the shapes and length of the triangles write. Like the English language the shape of the letter can change what people interpret the letter to be, so the shape obviously matters to get your message across. One thing that interested me is that all of the letters are arrangements of triangles unlike our language, all of the letters are different shapes so it is easy distinguish when there is a new word.

The Cuneiform triangles pointed in different directions ,were different lengths and sometimes were the same length and direction but just had a different amount of triangles symbolizing a different letter. For example a and n. A was 2 small triangles pointing to the right  like this >> except with ends to each of the triangles while N was 3 small triangles like this >>>. The same triangles just 1 more in the letter N symbolizing totally different letters. I paired up with Alex L. to switch our writings. Cuneiform is extremely confusing to read because of the shapes. Alex had written in cuneiform “ Sumerians created these weird symbols”, I didn't even get close i came up with “ Sumerians creater the je symbols”. It was very challenging some of the triangles were perceived to be pointing one way but actually they were pointing the other or there were supposed to be 2 triangles but it looked like one large one.