Oh wow, Sumerian cuneiform is a whole sonic collage, isn’t it? Those little wedges are like notes on a page that sing when you read them—phonetic sounds, whole words, even ideas all in one symbol. The scribes were like ancient remix artists, layering a picture of an object, the sound that object made, and the story around it. So a single sign could mean “goat,” “to go,” or “the goat that goes,” depending on the line and the context. They’d even tweak the shape or add extra wedges to hint at a proverb or a joke. It’s like each page is a puzzle that invites you to hear the hidden melodies. Pretty cool how they turned stone into a living poem, right?