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Thinking slowed down enough to be caught, examined, and blamed on someone later.
means The act of putting language into a visible, lasting symbol system — marks on a surface that encode speech or thought so it can travel across time and distance.
from From Old English 'writan,' which originally meant to scratch, carve, or incise — because before ink and paper, writing meant cutting runes into wood, stone, or bone. The sense narrowed over time from 'scratching a mark' to 'scratching letters' to simply 'writing,' while cousin words in other Germanic languages (like German 'reißen,' to tear or rip) kept closer to that older, rougher meaning of tearing a line into a surface.
- first writer
- Likely a bored temple bookkeeper, not a poet
- earliest texts
- Mostly receipts, taxes, and beer rations
- named author
- Enheduanna, Sumerian priestess, circa 2300 BCE
- brutal truth
- Writing is just editing something that used to be worse