Writing in Cuniform Reflection

In class we are learning about the first letters and alphabets. One of the first writing systems was Cuneiform. Many people in Mesopotamia used this system. So we also wanted to experience what it was like writing in Cuneiform. All of us translated a sentence in Cuneiform and painted it on brown paper.

Writing in Cuneiform was very hard. All those shapes took up a lot of time and space. I took a long time to even write one letter. By the time you write one word, a whole minute passed. I also realized that drawing shapes took up a lot of space on my paper. In my writing I made a mistake, I flipped two letters. I wonder what they did in the past when a mistake was made; of course they didn’t have white out like we do now.  But I think that Mesopotamians got used to it and didn’t make as many mistakes.

Right after we finished our sentence, we switched papers with someone else. Looks like just writing the sentence in Cuneiform, wasn’t enough, so we need to understand what it says as well (read Cuneiform). Once we switched we had to decode their sentence. This one also took up a long time but not space, since we were writing in our own language. It took up a lot of time since almost for every letter we had to look over and find what it is.

So that is how our writing Cuneiform experience went. Turns out writing in any typo of language is hard until you get used to it, even though all the answers are right in front of you, like t was for us.