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This is amazing, we evolved the alphabet from pictograms to highly stylized characters to letters and now we're going full circle by incorporating emojis such as 🐂 that thousands of years earlier became "a" and 🐟 that became "d"
@szbalint
same as it ever was
i would also suggest that using pictograms is really an effective way to communicate sometimes:
"a picture is worth a thousand words."
if you will allow the abstraction of meaning[s] from language, then modifying pictograms to characters and adding them back in again can be seen as another iteration in the many efforts of humans to improve their language[s].
i think literacy is attached to civilization in profound ways.