alina@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 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-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down110
arrow-up142arrow-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.worlddeleted by creator to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square32linkfedilink
minus-squarealina@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 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.