Jeffrey Lewis - History of Writing - short film - HD

[ssalloom11]

He seems about right except it was the Phoenicians not the Greeks who invented letters. That is why it is called the Phonetic alphabet. Phoenicians originated in modern day Lebanon and were a mercantile culture that dominated the Meditterenean prior to the Greeks and the Romans.

[Oleg326756]

@ssalloom11 You're wrong on a number of points. "Phonetic" in phonetic alphabete stands for "phones", or speech sounds, that the symbols represent. Phoenicians didn't invent letters. They merely invented an alphabete that later transformed into such Greek and Cyrillic alphabetes, among others.

[supercaleb08]

is there a shakeyer camera man

[92khokha]

very nice presentation hhh

[TheBelaWinchester]

Please, can you write what does he say about the 22 and 23 centuries??? I dont understand! And i cant get the full idea and laugh...

[kash959]

great!

[feltlang]

wow.! this is nice.! =)

[janeneng07]

hahaha!love the explanation,

great drawings huh!

5 stars for you!!*****

[chuchi01ful]

great!!! very simple explanation of history of writing...

[glazinq]

Dude, you have got a big future in...SOMETHING...great work...5*