The fact we're assuming that all of those things are necessary highlights that you can't make a statistic from one case. How do we know which of the conditions on Earth were really necessary and which were neutral to…
I've read that in China they didn't have typewriters and everything was hand-written right up till they got computers. Edit: They had printing presses, but those are for newspapers etc. Ordinary people had to handwrite.
Also English is not that phonological. In reality, you need to learn how combinations of 3-4 letters are mapped to sound. It's more like syllabary, really, except you don't have a separate glyph for each syllable.
Why Savannah (in savannah.gnu.org I mean)?
The fact we're assuming that all of those things are necessary highlights that you can't make a statistic from one case. How do we know which of the conditions on Earth were really necessary and which were neutral to…
I've read that in China they didn't have typewriters and everything was hand-written right up till they got computers. Edit: They had printing presses, but those are for newspapers etc. Ordinary people had to handwrite.
Also English is not that phonological. In reality, you need to learn how combinations of 3-4 letters are mapped to sound. It's more like syllabary, really, except you don't have a separate glyph for each syllable.
Why Savannah (in savannah.gnu.org I mean)?