Is it hard to invent a way to encode human language as writing? For example ... if you lived long ago, but had lots of free time do you think you could have worked something out?
People make up spoken languages, we suspect, if they don't have them.
But, does writing require some design, some technical genius?
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Sean O 🎃✂️
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Shorthand, braille, and Morse code are all recent attempts to create a novel writing system based on existing written language.
My favorite weird example is dance notation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_notation
And the parallel discovery of written language in different places on the globe show that it’s not a one time thing.
@Seanochicago @futurebird the Korean writing system (hangul) is semi recentish (well 1446) it used to use Chinese characters exclusively and the king Sejong the Great created it
he famously said of his writing system "A wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; even a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days."
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