This made the script easy to learn, and Phoenician seafaring merchants took the script wherever they went.

The phonetic structure of the Greek language created too many ambiguities when the vowels went unrepresented, so the script was modified.

In 1907, Griffith, still writing as a playwright, went to New York and attempted to sell a script to Edison Studios producer Edwin Porter.

Cukor wanted Cary Grant for the male lead and went so far as to read the entire script with him, but Grant, while agreeing it was the role of a lifetime, steadfastly refused to do it, and Cukor never forgave him.

This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions ( see External links below for facsimiles and translations ) but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations.

He listened to the radio show Chandu the Magician, and when the show went off the air every night he would sit and write the entire script from memory.

He also noticed that these characters resembled the equivalent ones in the Demotic script, and went on to note as many as 80 similarities between the hieroglyphic and demotic texts on the stone, an important discovery because the two scripts were previously thought to be entirely different from one another.

A revised version of the script from March 1994 included feedback from the producers, studio, actors and director ; the writers changed a sequence where Harriman trained his predecessors in the Enterprise-B's operation after Shatner felt the scene's joke went too far.

The three went over the script at Ting's home, and then Chow left to attend a dinner meeting.

The film's script was written by Leone and his longtime friend and collaborator Sergio Donati, from a story by Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento, both of whom went on to have significant careers as directors.

Another crew member, Nicola Shindler, who worked as script editor on the programme, later went on to found the highly successful Red Production Company.

In 1974 he went to Los Angeles to work on a script ( never produced ) with Sam Shepard, and to his own surprise took up residence there.

Some speakers write using the Cyrillic script, while others write using the Uyghur script, as that is the language they have used when they went to school.

The script went through two more drafts, which deleted an " Eddie Haskell "- esque friend of Elliott.

" Bogdanovich, McMurtry and some sources suggest an uncredited Polly Platt went through the book and wrote a script that tells the story chronologically.

Chaplin began preparing the film in 1934 as his first " talkie ", and went as far as writing a dialogue script and experimenting with some sound scenes.

When Schary went to MGM, he purchased the rights to the script from RKO, over the objections of Louis B. Mayer, who believed that the public was tired of war films.

The play then went back on a tour of the United Kingdom before returning to the West End with a new script.

A week after the disastrous premiere of The Rules of the Game, in July 1939, Renoir went to Rome with Karl Koch and Dido Freire, subsequently his second wife, to work on the script for a film version of Tosca.

They made script notes and made references to change some of the names, then the stamp went on and the door opened and we came.

The Hong Kong Cavaliers also appeared in these early drafts, but, according to Richter, " it never really went to a completed script.

When she declined, it went to many better-known actresses of the time including Molly Ringwald, who turned it down because she felt uncomfortable with the content in the script, and did not like the idea of playing a prostitute.

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 ).

Its persistence can probably be explained by the fact that it can be invoked to automatically perform small modifications on text files, by piping a script of commands to it through standard input.

Although Coppola insisted that this was purely coincidental, for not only was the script for The Conversation completed in the mid-1960s ( before the election of Richard Nixon ) but the spying equipment used in the film was discovered through research and the use of technical advisers and not, as many believed, by revelatory newspaper stories about the Watergate break-in.

Also Takri script that developed through the Devasesha stage of the Sharada script, and is found mainly in the Hill States, such as Chamba, where it is called Chambyali and in Jammu, where it is known as Dogri.

Simplistically speaking, the only ' national hands ' to continue were the Visigothic ( or Mozarabic ), which survived into the 12th or 13th century ; the Beneventan, which was still being used in the middle of the 16th century ; and Insular script, which was used to write texts in the Irish at least through the 20th century and formed the basis for Gaelic type, just as caroline minuscule formed the basis for Roman type.

While RSS and Atom are web syndication methods, with the former being more popular as a syndication method for podcasts, SMIL is potentially useful as a script or playlist that can tie sequential pieces of multimedia together and can then be syndicated through RSS or Atom.

Rather, they either go through their blocking holding scripts and reading off their lines, or else sit / stand together on a stage and read through the script together.

Clay tablets were used as the first known writing medium, inscribed with cuneiform script through the use of a blunt reed called a stylus.

The Mycenaeans were ultimately the first Greek-speaking people attested through historical sources, written records in the Linear B script, and through their literary echoes in the works of Homer, a few centuries later.

He wrote a script called Where No Shadows Fall for the company Airstage which was produced through KPBS in San Diego and aired on its radio series for the blind.

Mendes is indecisive, saying the script seemed to be about something different each time he read it: " a mystery story, a kaleidoscopic journey through American suburbia, a series of love stories ... it was about imprisonment ... loneliness beauty.

By the end of filming, the script had been through ten drafts.

There are 10 system variables, % 0 to % 9, which initially have the script file name in % 0 and command line parameters in % 1 through % 9, just as in a batch file.

From the 21st Century BC through to the late 18th Century BC, Assyria controlled colonies in Anatolia, and the Hurrians, like the Hattians, adopted the Assyrian Akkadian cuneiform script for their own language about 2000 BCE.

The 17th century saw the Batarde script from France, and the 18th century saw the English script spread across Europe and world through their books.

This script maintained occasional use through the 18th century.

Before each airborne operation a jumpmaster runs through the " Sustained Airborne Training " script, which contains a number of points of performance.

When the film was first released, The New York Times film critic Frank S. Nugent praised the film, writing, " The comedy, through Mr. Douglas's debonair performance and those of Ina Claire as the duchess and Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart and Alexander Grannach as the unholy three emissaries ; through Mr. Lubitsch's facile direction ; and through the cleverly written script of Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, has come off brilliantly.

In sign languages, however, several channels operate simultaneously — hand shape, often with the two hands operating independently, hand location, hand motion, facial expression, mouthing — making an alphabetic script more complicated than just stringing letters together in the order sounds are produced.

After several script rewrites and changes, including a second title change to Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends and premiered on NBC's coveted Thursday 8: 30 pm timeslot.

Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called " modules " that gave a person running a D & D game ( the " Dungeon Master ") a rough script and ideas on how to run a particular gaming scenario.

The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries.

It features a copy of the script annotated with excerpts from referenced and relevant materials as well as several comments from Chomsky interspersed throughout.

Further sources are the ' Phags-pa script based on the Tibetan alphabet, which was used to write several of the languages of the Mongol empire, including Chinese, and the Menggu Ziyun, a rhyme dictionary based on ' Phags-pa.

Its written standard is the Polish alphabet, which has several additions to the letters of the basic Latin script.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

Samuels suggested several writers and eventually Stoddard commissioned veteran television writer Edward Hume to write the script in 1981.

While Hume was writing the script, he and producer Robert Papazian, who had great experience in on-location shooting, took several trips to Kansas City to scout locations and met with officials from the Kansas film commission and from the Kansas tourist offices to search for a suitable location for " Hampton.

For several months, this group worked on drawing up storyboards and revising the script again and again ; then, in the spring of 1982, Butler was forced to leave The Day After because of other contractual commitments.

A VBScript script must be executed within a host environment, of which there are several provided with Microsoft Windows, including: Windows Script Host ( WSH ), Internet Explorer ( IE ), and Internet Information Services ( IIS ).

Hewlett-Packard researcher Andreas Raab proposed defining a " script process " and providing a default scheduling mechanism that avoids several more general problems.

The persecutions in several Austrian towns are explicitly described in a 16th century script called Vienna Geserah.

Phagpa extended his native Tibetan script to encompass Mongolian and Chinese ; the result was known by several descriptive names, such as the Mongolian new script, but today is known as the ' Phags-pa script.

They purchased his script, bought several others, and hired him on staff.

In a later script, several scenes were cut, and the names of the crew changed at the request of the crew-members and their families.

The modern Mon script, however, utilises several different letters and diacritics that represent phonemes that do not exist in Burmese, such as the diacritic of the simplified medial ' l ', which is placed underneath the letter.

The modified script had a cynical outlook that was influenced by Ball's frustrating tenures writing for several sitcoms.

Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took American Beauty to DreamWorks ; the fledgling film studio bought Ball's script for $ 250, 000, outbidding several other production bodies.

Ball did not expect to sell the script, believing it would act as more of a calling card, but American Beauty drew interest from several production bodies.

Cannava passed the script to several producers, including Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, who took it to DreamWorks.

At the last minute, Roddenberry sent down several pages of new script for the dinner scene, in which Spock was to give a long-winded explanation of the philosophy.