when no one read, someone started to write?
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2009
07/04
Can anyone tell me how and why
- By E.Benito Ruiz
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- Filed in: Miscellaneous
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It’s impossible for me to see the connection between the post and this comment… the more I try the sicker I get
That makes a lot more sense
For one moment I really though the comment was somehow related to the post 
You can freely delete the whole thread
I don’t get it… even the question, neither the tweetback, am I getting old for all this microbloging, or too much 2.0 ?
A very simple but complex question regarding language acquisition and skills…Have you ever wondered why X decided to write when no was able to read -because they didn’t need to-…I mean a human being, a John or Jane Doe, decided to pass the spoken code to written symbols no one else could read!…And s/he went viral. That was really word-of-mouth…and not what these 2.0 guys sell
Just a glimpse of thought that crossed my crazy mind…
The Randomized Me.
Maybe yesterday I was really tired and I tried to thought something about tweeter/webs/or something. If you were talking about how we ended up writing symbols for the first time (from prehistory to history), it’s just amazing.
… as amazing as nowadays we can almost communicate with anyone, anywhere, using the same set of symbols, and with one language.
… you can always try to think what were the odds that from start dust we ended up discussing in your blog about when history began.
Pass the spoken code to symbols? That’s probably a bit of a leap, no? The first drawings had magical functions – to help fight animals during the hunt, to increase fertility, etc. Abstract symbols come *much* later… But it’s interesting, indeed, that around 3000BCE both hieroglyphs and cuniform were used as symbolic script systems (with cuniform developing into a more abstract system later on), and that we can’t really trace back where they originated. I mean…there’s a big difference between carving in a rock & using hieroglyphs or linear A. Where’s the rest of the story / history?
Hi Bart,
Yep, a big leap in terms of chronology -let’s skip History, Sumerians and the like- but not really in terms of language acquisition and neural processes. If writing began as a separate code, it’s amazing and still unknown the process by means of which the written code merged with spoken language.
Writing…what a great technology.
Hello. Fantastic job, if I wasn’t so busy with my school work I read your entire site. Thanks!
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