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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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Um, Is There a Special Class of Scribes in Mesoamerica?

There's a myth about chinese that all the dialects can communicate to each other with each other through characters. That's not really the case but people think that way and uh, it could you could have had more sort of intermittent reforms of making it more like the spoken language. There were different calligraphy styles and such use for I know that in china calligraphy is huge art form And often like a traditional chinese paintings. It's not really complete unless you have A poem written on the painting and some calligraphy style and then of course about four stamps Right. Mm-hmm Which is just a letter to a friend? You get that in an medieval

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