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> (This is a term of art with a very specific sense.) Would you care to enlighten us?
by waqf 10y ago
> (This is a term of art with a very specific sense.)
Would you care to enlighten us?
- stan_rogers 10y agoIt's about productivity. If it's purely pictographic or idiographic, it can only encode precisely what the symbols mean. When cuneiform, for instance, went from its early pictographic/ideographic stage to a rhyme, rebus and initial stage, it went from being just a "tagging" system to an actual writing system, where anything that could be said could be encoded.