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Re:Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:59PM (#48508779)
Written language ?

Got it too easy ?

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Re:Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself by nobodyandproud on Saturday June 13, 2026 @01:29PM (#48519415)
It doesn’t have to be writing. At least one culture used ropes and knots.
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Re:Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself by HarHarVeryFunny on Saturday June 13, 2026 @02:05PM (#48519802)
I think that (Incas) was more numerical record keeping rather than written language.

What's special about written language (which some existing hunter-gatherer tribes still don't have), as opposed to spoken language, is that it allows cultural knowledge to be spread, stored, accumulated, and built upon.

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