Truly unusual events and objects are hard to describe. Because they are hard to describe they aren't virulent.
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I was rereading a story about a certain place in Africa. Guy is surprised that the locals have no word for "halfway" - something is "up" the tree, or not. Locals in turn are surprised guy has a dictionary - why would you need a book telling you your own language?
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Guy reasons that from perspective of oral languages this is a legitimate question, but language being written means it can expand in breadth and depth far beyond any single human brain's capacity to remember. That plus this means written language has much more virulent concepts.
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Those together, plus what appears to be the most common level of human capacity to deal with words ("verbal intelligence"), makes for a pretty decent argument that the stability of society can only be maintained if most people have limited literacy.pic.twitter.com/VGo5eaDIho
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