alina@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 14 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-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down18
arrow-up126arrow-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 · 14 days agomessage-square13linkfedilink
minus-squarebiofaust@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 days agoI guess it is easier if you have a simple language and sillable-concept relations and therefore start with what would amount to hideograms. The real genius is the one who comes up with something prepositions and suffixes/prefixes.
I guess it is easier if you have a simple language and sillable-concept relations and therefore start with what would amount to hideograms. The real genius is the one who comes up with something prepositions and suffixes/prefixes.
And stuff like abstractions