• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    That’s the problem—how do you restrict literacy to an elite scribal class when everybody has string?

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      16 days ago

      My Mayan buddies up north just make it so super complicated that you have to be really talented at drawing or carving.

      String’s easier though.