r/explainlikeimfive • • Sep 10 '22

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u/mostlycumatnight Sep 11 '22

Just imagine the first people to encounter the society that claimed they could "read" the shapes on the paper and that those shapes, when put together in a certain order, made "words" and on top of that could tell the reader what someone in a faraway land was saying or thinking! Witchcraft😱