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> One thing that doesn't get mentioned often is that the West had a "simpler" alphabet of 26 characters This article has presumably mentioned it. It says: > A
by segfaultbuserr 4y ago
> One thing that doesn't get mentioned often is that the West had a "simpler" alphabet of 26 characters
This article has presumably mentioned it. It says:
> Answering this question is actually quite complex because it involves mechanical knowledge, metallurgy, mills and writing systems. I have read numerous articles on this topic, but I started to notice that everyone leaves out some different essential part of the story. Here I am trying to include all the factors involved.
The content is cut off in the middle by the paywall (which raises the question of whether it's suitable to be submitted to HN in the first place, if there's no workaround available).
- franciscop 4y agoI didn't notice it was a paywall and thought it was just the end of the article+sub box until you mentioned it and I went back to check it!
- socialdemocrat 4y agoThe simple workaround is sign up for a free 7-day free trial. You don't have to be a paid subscriber. It does get into discussing alphabets at the end.
- incongruity 4y agoSigning up for something isn’t a workaround - it’s signing up for something.
- a1369209993 4y agoTo be fair, the term "paywall" is kind of misleading here; just by looking at it, it's hardly obvious that it also refers to things like "sign up" (or "disable your adblocker", etc). It's unfortunate that less opaque terms like "signupwall" are too awkward to supplant it. (Of course, if they did, we'd probably have the opposite problem, of people pretending something's not a signupwall because you can pay without signing up. If socialdemocrat has any suggestions for a term for this single concept that's etymologically compatible with both of those special cases, I'd quite like to hear them.)