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Re:The Decline of Usability by WalterBright on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:40AM (#22906501)
The Egyptian and Mayan ones did.
Re:The Decline of Usability by macleginn on Saturday April 18, 2020 @06:51AM (#22906817)
What I wrote about was about Egyptian hieroglyphs. I can only repeat that they did not _evolve_ into alphabetic writing. The Semitic alphabet was a fork; alphabetic use by the Egyptians themselves was very marginal. The Mayan system AFAIK was a mixed logo-syllabic one to begin with.