My Hieroglyph Statement

My Cuneiform Statement

Questions:

• What form of writing (hieroglyphs or cuneiform) did you find more challenging to complete? Describe why it was harder?

In comparison to hieroglyphs, the cuneiform activity was far more difficult to complete. The hieroglyph activity is just drawing simple and repetitive images, but for the cuneiform activity, not only did it take longer to figure out how to most accurately say what you would like to, but you would always have to re-look for what you needed. For instance; every time I wished to complete a word like with, the drawings were so simple and distinct from one another that I did not need to go looking for what letter I needed each time. I simply remembered from using them before. In the case of the cuneiform activity I had to go back to look for what Ah looked like or El looked like each time I needed to use them, and those were just examples, really I barely remembered any of them even after repetitive use. They all looked so similar to each other because it is all an arrangement of lines in a varying format that is super similar to the next. Also I would like to point out how certain sounds in cuneiform are short to draw, but others take longer to draw. All these make cuneiform longer to decipher as opposed to Hieroglyphics.

• If you could choose one form of writing (cuneiform or hieroglyphs), which would it be?  From your choice, what reasons can you give to help the reader understand why you made that choice.

For this question, if I am writing, I would choose cuneiform. Ideally if I had to write in a language then that would suggest I know the language, or at least that is how I will answer this question. If I already know cuneiform then I would write in cuneiform because its just primitive inscriptions since they are just lines. That would generally be my only reason though, also I consider it to be similar to our alphabet since it has a larger structure, or set to it, than just illustrations.