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Oops, misread the article. It is 5500 years old, but nevertheless in Pakistan, not Iraq.--[[User:Jack|Jack]] 01:21, 25 March 2007 (EDT)

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"For those who "text message" on cell phones, notice how each key has multiple possible letters and ''how the phone resolves the ambiguity'' and forms words depending on how the letters fit together to form a word."

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I think this example is confusing. The phone doesn't resolve ambiguity in text messages, the reader does. To say the phone resolves the ambiguity would be analagous to saying the cuneiform tablet resolves the ambiguity as to whether "foot symbol" means "foot" or "go", etc. Such ambiguities or multiple meanings are a standard feature of language, no? There's probably no need to address this issue in the lecture. If you choose to do so, you might just say that each cuneiform symbol has multiple meanings depending on context as do modern words and symbols such that a modest number of symbols can express a great amount.

== I am who I am ==

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