alina@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agoTo independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a geniusmessage-squaremessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down110
arrow-up143arrow-down1message-squareTo independently invent the concept of writing in which sounds are encoded into symbols from which an infinite number of words can be assembled, you must be a geniusalina@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square28linkfedilink
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 months agoSee my other comment, but naturally evolving writing systems arose from drawing pictures over millennia; noone just started writing letters.
minus-squarealina@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·3 months agothanks? but I didn’t deny it.
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·3 months agoIt means there almost certainly never was such a genius.
minus-squarealina@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoRight? I just mean, to a modern person it seems obvious and simple, but when I really thought about it, if I had never had an example of writing in front of me, the concept wouldn’t have been obvious to me at all.
See my other comment, but naturally evolving writing systems arose from drawing pictures over millennia; noone just started writing letters.
thanks? but I didn’t deny it.
It means there almost certainly never was such a genius.
Right? I just mean, to a modern person it seems obvious and simple, but when I really thought about it, if I had never had an example of writing in front of me, the concept wouldn’t have been obvious to me at all.