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Um, Um Um Um, Is That a Hieroglyphic Kit?
Paper came into fashion in europe with the renaissance. In italy they made paper first as far as I know and then it spread north. Learning to write meant learning to write in a dead language Mm-hmm Sumerian latin greek which is a bit archaic classical chinese versus modern chinese. For a very long time french kids in school learned spelling and language first with latin because the spelling made more sense than french spelling. Probably half of europe is illiterate, but anyway there's some other King who's famous for saying you know, um, he was Doing some diplomatic thing in some monk gently corrected his latin And he's like, I'm