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-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.
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.