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"I have never thought of writing systems in such a multifaceted and multifarious way because I did not even know most of the mentioned scripts and the rich, long-enduring histories that come with them hand-in-hand. Coming from a small country in Asia, I was sufficiently (and ignorantly) comfortable to be cradled by Asian-oriented discourse; my knowledge about writing and not-writing was so limited that I admittedly first learned of many of the scripts, codes, or recording devices in this class, including Quipu, Georgian, Germanic Runes, Ge’ez, Cherokee. Alongside getting to know a handful of writing system classifications, besides the alphabet, like the abjad, syllabary, alphasyllabary, and logography, it was also bewildering to learn that writing generally did not start out by the very purpose of preserving literature and enculturating literacy––the main premise of defining writing in the current rhetoric." ~ Camellia Pham, Spring 2021