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> Would you care to enumerate what specifically you found interesting? That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written
by birdsongs 4mo ago
> Would you care to enumerate what specifically you found interesting?
That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language... and just made it. And it was effective and good, and culturally spread in just years, allowing them to reach a higher literacy rate than english speakers in the country at the time.
That's interesting to me.
- bcjdjsndon 4mo ago> That one man, in the 1800's, saw his thousands-year old culture had a need for a written language... This is why the Americans were so intractably behind the rest of the world by the time Columbus found em. I think it's sad
- birdsongs 4mo agoExcept many native cultures in the Americas had written languages, going back thousands of years. I think the large scale genocide was a bit more sad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas#Writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Am...
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoThere's only so much you can pass on without writing. It's a massive benefit to a society to not have to keep everything in people's heads.
- BigTTYGothGF 4mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mesoamerican_writing_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mesoamerican_writing_...