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		1024core 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be un... Isn't writing barely 10,000 years old or so? For the longest time, humans memorized their stories and passed them down to younger generations by rote memorization.

thaumasiotes 11 months ago [–]

> Isn't writing barely 10,000 years old or so?

No, absolutely not. It's barely 5,000 years old.

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