alina@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 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-square22fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down110
arrow-up136arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squarealina@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 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.
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.