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Hey Ọbádélé, question to you about language/ writing.
How is it determined that a manner of written communication is better or worse, more advanced or less advanced? I ask because I’ve never understood why one letter representing a piece of sound is considered to be more advanced or superior to writing that contains a lot more information in a smaller amount of space. Like why is B for “buh”(which means nothing) considered more advanced than any adinkra symbol out there which would take up the same amount of space of B and yet contain vastly more valuable information than just “buh”. And even now, the goal for certain people is the continued creation of more efficient ways to store much more data into small spaces e.g. vinyl, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, cds, dvds, floppy discs, mechanical drives, flash drives, solid state drives etc., And regardless of the physical technology involved in the manufacture of these products, the goal of compressing large amounts of information into smaller spaces seems to be something that is more desirable.
My apologies if it’s a stupid question.
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Considered by whom?
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So, alphabetic writing isn’t considered by anyone in linguistics/ cultural anthropology to be more advanced than, say, ideograms?
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@Pain1979 if you remember piltdown man it was all about krakkkaz saying that they were the first people and everything was a degeneration from that. When that didn’t work, they decided that everybody else was primitive and they were an evolution. The ones doing the considering will always say that whatever they do is more advanced/better because they are our enemies and that’s what they’re supposed to do. We’re supposed to solve the #1 problem on the planet earth.
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If the Adrinka symbol was allowed to grow and evolved normally into its own writing system, I believe you could have written a paragraph or letter using only a few Adinkra symbols; or even written a book using a few hundred Adinkra symbols instead of the hundred of thousands or millions of words used by the Latin script.
The Adrinka symbols could have grown and evolved into a writing system similar to the Mdu Ntr script in ancient Kmt or even similar to the Chinese writing system where a symbol or a sign is used to represent an entire word.
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