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    7 days ago

    A lot of excellent observations.

    But you did answer your question when you mentioned most older scripts were illiterate (in the academic sense).

    Illiterate scripts inherently carry a lot of information whose priority is to convey the message independent of the listener (I’m guessing)

    I think languages that can convey tone are awesome. It makes the language richer and less ambiguous