Originally Posted by BillyGoatGruff
But it never made sense to me even as a kid that a people that could navigate the oceans and seas, put masts in their boats, pattern weld steel etc didn’t discover a way to put thoughts to words via a written language?

Ta have an accepted written language, ya gotta have consensus, over a wide strata of people.

Look at the 'fire: Covtards, liberals, losers and wizards, never pointin in the same direction.

There probably were many more written languages than will ever be known, but they were confined to a small area, where the interpretation was agreed upon.