0:60LANGUAGE & WRITING
Before poems, before laws, there were receipts. Writing began as a tally of barley, cattle and beer.
Writing Was Invented to Count Beer
Before poems and laws, there were receipts.
Alphabets, lost words and how meaning travels. The first writing was accounting, dictionaries started arguments, and a language can die and be woken up on purpose. Short films about the code you think in.
Before poems, before laws, there were receipts. Writing began as a tally of barley, cattle and beer.
Before poems and laws, there were receipts.