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Author's comment: Considering that Proto-Sinaitic writing appears to be about three hundred years older than Ugaritic pseudo-cuneiform, we may actually have been doing this for closer to four thousand years. Of course, other forms of writing in the Middle East, including pictographic and ideographic ones, are much older.
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