Even for those who have been observing the political scene a long time, no script from the past is worth very much in gazing into the state's immediate political future.

In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.

The Proto-Sinaitic script eventually developed into the Phoenician alphabet, which is conventionally called " Proto-Canaanite " before ca.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

This script is the parent script of all western alphabets.

The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge ' ez alphabet ( an abugida ) is descended.

Another notable script is Elder Futhark, which is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets.

The Old Hungarian script is a contemporary writing system of the Hungarians.

Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.

In the wider sense, an alphabet is a script that is segmental at the phoneme level — that is, it has separate glyphs for individual sounds and not for larger units such as syllables or words.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

For example, Sorani Kurdish is written in the Arabic script, which is normally an abjad.

However, in Kurdish, writing the vowels is mandatory, and full letters are used, so the script is a true alphabet.

In the Pollard script, an abugida, vowels are indicated by diacritics, but the placement of the diacritic relative to the consonant is modified to indicate the tone.

More rarely, a script may have separate letters for tones, as is the case for Hmong and Zhuang.

Russell T Davies was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid-1990s, also writing the script for the direct-to-video special " Viva Las Vegas!

In 1977, Trudeau wrote a script for a 26-minute animated special.

Programming features such as randomization, variables, and intermap script activation enable smooth hub gameplay and are responsible for most of the special effects within the game: On-screen messages ; random sound effect and monster spawning ; sidedef texture changes ; versatile control of polyobjects ; level initialization for deathmatch ; and even complex environment changes such as earthquakes manipulating floor levels and textures.

In 1950, the movie Destination Moon — the documentary-like film for which he had written the story and scenario, co-written the script, and invented many of the effects — won an Academy Award for special effects.

In its most basic form, a shell script can provide a convenient variation of a system command where special environment settings, command options, or post-processing is applied automatically, but in a way that allows the new script to still act as a fully normal Unix command.

A special glyph in the script, the Soyombo, became a national symbol of Mongolia, and has appeared on the national flag since 1921, and on the national coat of arms since 1992, as well as money, stamps, etc.

There was special, uncredited help with the script by Howard Hawks, James Kevin McGuinness, and Howard Emmett Rogers.

A 1966 television version, shown as a color special on the ABC television network, made use of a modernized, abbreviated script that accommodated much more of the score than the film version had, yet the entire production ran only ninety minutes with commercials.

According to the special edition DVD, significant and uncredited improvements were made to the script by the famous " script doctors ," twin brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.

Their first collaborative script was for a Goon Show special called Archie in Goonland, a crossover between The Goon Show and Educating Archie.

* October 15 – A TV version of the musical Brigadoon is telecast on ABC as a special, using an updated script and story line and re-introducing some of the songs cut from the 1954 movie.

InDesign supports Unicode character encoding and there is a special Middle East version supporting complex text layout for Arabic and Hebrew types of complex script.

Bette Davis initially turned down the script, but Warner Bros. studio production chief Hal B. Wallis convinced her she could make something special out of the character, who had been inspired by one of Davis ' idols, actress Jeanne Eagels.

The script itself was terribly amusing without being vicious or spiteful or bloody, and it had a lot more heart in it than many other special effects movies.

Starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, the first 20 episodes and the 2007 special were written by Peter Spence, the creator, while the 1981 finale was written by Christopher Bond, the script associate.

He also appeared as the " special guest star " in the nineteenth episode of the final season, when the scheduled guest, Richard Pryor, was unable to make it to the recording ; a script was hastily written in which " Chris the Delivery Boy " stood in for an absent celebrity.

The modern Hungarian term for this special script ( coined in the 19th century ) rovás derives from the verb róni (' to score ') which is derived from old Uralic, general Hungarian terminology describing the technique of writing ( írni ' to write ', betű ' letter ', bicska ' knife ( also: for carving letters )') derive from Turkic, which supports the theory of transmission via Turks further.

A special character of the script, the Soyombo symbol, became a national symbol of Mongolia, and has appeared on the national flag since 1921, and on the national coat of arms since 1992, as well as money, stamps, etc.

After Lee's death, Proyas and his producers decided to complete the film, partially rewriting the script and using a stunt double and special effects to film the remaining scenes .< ref >

The first ever Korean television drama, 천국의 문 ( The Gates of Heaven ) in 1956, planning director Choi Chang-Bong spent two and a half months continuously fixing the script, preparing sets and even the first instance of special effects, all for a drama that lasted no longer than fifteen minutes.

Despite loving the originally proposed script, Nathan-Turner also had concerns about the cost, which would have included several lengthy night-shoots and a much larger special effects budget.

And the script surprised me.

He had hopes they would work together again ; he quotes Wayne as saying, about a couple of months after filming wrapped on The Shootist, " I found a good script, kid ... it's you and me, or it's nobody.

Through the filming, Colbert felt that the script was weak, and Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.

The script for " Blood Feud " originally featured Smithers saying " Just leave me enough to get home to my wife and kids ," but the line had to be cut for time.

" My part was actually quite small in the script, but what seemed to be the important part to me was that I was the only one who wasn't swept along by Ferris ", recalls Jones.

According to Adams, Graham Williams " took me back to his place, locked me in his study and hosed me down with whisky and black coffee for a few days, and there was the script ".

Again unhappy with the script, Clift told friends that he wanted to change his co-star Olivia De Havilland's lines because " she isn't giving me enough to respond.

Jim Henson approached Terry Jones to write the film's script as " his daughter Lisa had just read Erik the Viking and suggested that he try me as screen-writer.

In a 1954 interview with Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut, reprinted in Jean Renoir: Interviews, Renoir said " Working on the script inspired me to make a break and perhaps get away from naturalism completely, to try to touch on a more classical, more poetic genre.

However, a script was read out in which Pedro ogles young women and says: " God sent these young girls to me as temptation and I failed.

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She said, I was in Switzerland when they sent me the script for Affair in Trinidad and I threw it across the room.

By that time, he felt that reciting a script covering every single scenario in the game was boring and tedious — Madden recalled the long hours spent alone in the recording studio as " the most difficult part of any part that I've ever had in the game and the least amount of fun "— but said that in the decision to remove him from game commentary, " I feel that something is being taken away from me ".

Sacchetti's version differs: " When I proposed to Lucio my original treatment for Per Sempre, which was nothing more than a sequel to The Postman Always Rings Twice in which a dead man returns to life, he became really enthusiastic and had my story read by a producer friend of his who then commissioned me to write a finished script.

Four years later, Bava used my script to make Per Sempre and Fulci, who wasn't working much at the time, got angry with me and started hurling these accusations.

Mature enjoyed the script while admitting it made no sense to him, stating " All I know is it makes me laugh.

' And they were excited about it enough to pay me to write a script.

In a 2010 interview with The Telegraph, La Plante complained, “ If my name were Usafi Iqbadal and I was 19, then they ’ d probably bring me in and talk .” “ But ... it ’ s their lack of respect that really grates on me .” She went on to say, " If you were to go to the BBC and say to them, ‘ Listen, Lynda La Plante ’ s written a new drama, or I have this little Muslim boy who's just written one ’, they ’ d say: ‘ Oh, we ’ d like to see his script .’” Ben Stephenson ( BBC Controller of Drama ) responded, " She has one piece at the moment, and one that we paid fully for the script development.