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Mick 🇨🇦 (mick@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:21:28 JST Mick 🇨🇦

Do you ever think about how weird it is that you can hear my voice in your head as you read my voice as you read this?
Weird, right?

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  Mick 🇨🇦 (mick@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:21:27 JST Mick 🇨🇦
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  So that’s several layers of technology at play. Writing - the representation of language in a form that is interpreted by people of a shared culture- that’s like ~5k years old.
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    Writing is the act of creating a persistent representation of human language. A writing system uses a set of symbols and rules to encode aspects of spoken language, such as its lexicon and syntax. However, written language may take on characteristics distinct from those of any spoken language. Writing is a cognitive and social activity involving neuropsychological and physical processes. The outcome of this activity, also called "writing", and sometimes a "text", is a series of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols. The interpreter or activator of a text is called a "reader". In general, writing systems do not constitute languages in and of themselves, but rather a means of encoding language such that it can be read by others across time and space. While not all languages use a writing system, those that do can complement and extend the capacities of spoken language by creating durable forms of language that can be transmitted across space (e.g. written correspondence) and stored over time (e.g. libraries or other public records). Writing can also have knowledge-transforming effects, since...
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  Mick 🇨🇦 (mick@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Sep-2024 09:21:27 JST Mick 🇨🇦
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  Language as a thing is 60k - 100k years old.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
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    Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and signed forms, and may also be conveyed through writing. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed between cultures and across time. Human languages possess the properties of productivity and displacement, which enable the creation of an infinite number of sentences, and the ability to refer to objects, events, and ideas that are not immediately present in the discourse. The use of human language relies on social convention and is acquired through learning. Estimates of the number of human languages in the world vary between 5,000 and 7,000. Precise estimates depend on an arbitrary distinction (dichotomy) established between languages and dialects. Natural languages are spoken, signed, or both; however, any language can be encoded into secondary media using auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli – for example, writing, whistling...

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