alina@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 16 hours 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-square31fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down18
arrow-up146arrow-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 · 16 hours agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squarealina@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·13 hours 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.
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.