I know this guy may have been part of a group that spend thousands of hours of research....but, I have done hundreds of hours research studying in a seminary school. Of course, I disagree. Ancient alphabets originated from cymatics, or sound vibrations--You should be able to see the character you say. When you say a word the word and alphabet should be easily identified--there weren't any spelling contests not like speaking and writing French. The alphabetical sound of either a character or word can be visually replicated with sound or more modern means using a computer. Another brief point: Some of the pictograms aren't shapes of natural items, they are shapes that you'd see from electricity--something arcing or something controlled and viewed in a plasma chamber. If you were to study into Hebrew, you'll see many words that would indicate something technical in nature listed as from an "unused word". Doug is a smart man but for this lecture he is simply being a Parrot, an ugly one.