Comment by psychoslave
Comment by psychoslave 9 days ago
Only on HN will I find people pickier than myself I guess. ^^
>I'm tempted to also point out more generally that all symbols are esoteric if you go back far enough
It certainly all depends on what we put as definition of esoteric and what is far enough. :) Here what I was meaning was in contrast of a choice like "anonymously".
Since you speak French, you might be interested to watch "L’odyssée de l’écriture - Les origines ": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P2nAj50LdY
Isn't that what it is - a place where we don't have to pretend we don't care about details.
I see the point of the documentary, it would have absolutely floored me a couple of months ago. However, I have very recently spent a month learning Serbian, which included learning (Serbian) Cyrillic, which led to me finally asking some obvious questions - where does Cyrillic come from, where does Greek come from, where does the Latin alphabet come from, etc. So I've binged similar information of the sort that documentary describes, I think.
I still might watch it later though and see if there's more juice in there, thank you very much!