alina@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 17 days 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-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down19
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 · 17 days agomessage-square27linkfedilink
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·17 days agoIt means there almost certainly never was such a genius.
minus-squarealina@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·17 days 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.
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.