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Well that and, if it did exist, mass literacy might not leave any
artefacts. Drawings in the dirt, on leaves, etc. Sometimes we might
erroneously think that everyone who lived in Jane Austen's world lived
in Georgian manor houses scattered about the English countryside.
CB: Yes, I
It didn't represent much in everyday life. Most early writing,
whether picture writing or alpha betical represents ruling class stuff
. The Bible doesn't discuss everyday life, for example.
Well that and, if it did exist, mass literacy might not leave any
artefacts. Drawings in the dirt, on
CB: Check out Mixtec or Aztec picture writing.
In their most developed forms for representing glottographic language,
the scripts and texts to check out are Mayan and Zapotec. The problem
I have with interpreting Mixtec writing as 'pictorial' as a way to
represent a language is the much-too-much
