Good job Amos (Hebrew for "burden")!   Ye-or-yah (George, Greek ['ellenika] for "farmer") terrible "lettuce" joke. Bad cabbage.

Here is something to consider: Primitive, stone-age cultures such as the American Indian, the Australian Aborigines, and so on, wore their symbols on their bodies in paint or tattoos or both and they also transferred some of these symbols to cave walls, clothing or desert rocks. They participated in and closely identified with those symbols. It appears that the Egyptians, while wearing some symbols had moved them almost exclusively to walls and tablets and papyrus and we see a proto-written language emerge. A good dictionary will demonstrate the origins of our symbols/letters and you have to ask yourself if we still carry those strong identifications as the primitives did/do? I say yes! T-shirts with messages, signet rings, tattoos (yet), face paint. Is all language metaphor? Are words worth fighting for? Dying for? What then is meaning? All the stuff of philosophy (love of wisdom). Jesus said "I am the Alpha and the O-mega". Interesting indeed.