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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

See my other comment, but naturally evolving writing systems arose from drawing pictures over millennia; noone just started writing letters.

[–] alina@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thanks? but I didn't deny it.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It means there almost certainly never was such a genius.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The closest was probably the guy who invented the Korean alphabet. Dude looked at the scribes and scholars struggling to fit Chinese characters to a language they don't mesh with at all in terms of phonetics and grammar and said "fine, I'll do it myself".

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Indeed, but he understood the concept of writing already, and several existing scripts (besides Chinese) were known to him and his court, so he could consciously take those ideas and work with them.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's also how the Cyrillic alphabet came to be

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 points 20 hours ago

Cyrillic was at least based on Greek, for Korean it looks like mostly original glyphs

[–] alina@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Right? I just mean, to a modern person it seems obvious and simple, but when I really thought about it, if I had never had an example of writing in front of me, the concept wouldn't have been obvious to me at all.