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sigmaleph ([personal profile] sigmaleph) wrote2022-03-27 01:39 pm

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post-apocalyptic illiterate society postulating that all stories of "reading" were just describing the effect of absorbing hallucinogenic fungal spores growing on old books, and the idea that you can "write words down" is merely an old wives' tale

[personal profile] contrarianarchon 2022-03-28 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
What do they think books were *for* then?

[personal profile] contrarianarchon 2022-03-28 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)

We do, we do :P

(though, tbh, I feel like ... "writing is theoretically possible" is easy to theoretically verify if you care to check)

[personal profile] contrarianarchon 2022-03-29 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
And I suppose their linguists, being trained by oral tradition, were somewhat lacking in phonemic variety?