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Pictographic communication continued into, and separately came about, far more recently than the neolithic era. And history isn't a linear movement of only prog
by xboxnolifes 11mo ago
Pictographic communication continued into, and separately came about, far more recently than the neolithic era. And history isn't a linear movement of only progress. There is no obvious reason to think the pictographic communication is a degradation of communication.
- WalterBright 11mo ago> There is no obvious reason to think the pictographic communication is a degradation of communication. Phonetic alphabets evolved from pictograms, not the other way around. For example, A is an upside down bull's head. Pictograms are definitely a degradation.
- xboxnolifes 11mo agoWhy is using alphabets and pictograms a degradation? Explained in a way that is something other than "pictograms were used long ago so they are bad". It also seems that the assumption is that alphabets were an improvement in every way. Why is this a given?
- WalterBright 11mo agoBecause you cannot look up a pictogram to divine its meaning. There are a million words in English. You can trivially look any of them up. > "pictograms were used long ago so they are bad" Please don't put words in my mouth that I never wrote. Pictograms evolved into phonetic alphabets over and over in history, because phonetic alphabets are objectively better. Take a chapter from "Lord of the Rings" and redo it with pictograms. Good luck with that.