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by stan_rogers
3422 days ago
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It'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. |
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