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What Is The Point Of Letters?

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`nonculture May 20, 2009, 5:18:45 PM
What is the Point of letters?


Ok ok so I don't think there is a "Point", but what purposes do you think it serves? Why do you feel you have to write using letters, and show those letters to others? Why do you read? Is it ultimately you trying to find something true?

I just want to see what people say, and spy on your discussions. Don't expect me to be a-saying much

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So, what is the deal with all these alphabetic letters these days?

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~slather May 20, 2009, 5:43:40 PM
What is the point in having a point? If no one understands your point, or agrees among themselves that you don't have a point, do you still have one? Frankly, I'd rather have a pint.

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`nonculture May 20, 2009, 6:12:34 PM
May I refer you to a similar thread entitled What Is The Point of Literature? What is the difference?

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~slather May 20, 2009, 6:46:39 PM
What is the point of mayonnaise, that's what I want to know.

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`GeneratingHype May 21, 2009, 1:30:47 AM
Gastrointestinal torture. It's a Communist thing.

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~Schemilix May 21, 2009, 4:23:18 AM
Letters are simply a way of presenting 'words' in a visual way simply and effectively. There is no ';point'.

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~Schemilix May 21, 2009, 4:23:54 AM
I think my brain just melted a bit. I love you.

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~slather May 21, 2009, 7:07:48 AM
And probably a bit of arterial gridlock.

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~kcinm May 21, 2009, 12:03:17 PM
The existence of letters is arbitrary, as is their order in the alphabet. Ideas, words, stories, can exist without letters, can happen without them, usually. The advantage of having them is that they give us a point of reference, allow us to sound out their combinations, to know what they represent even if we don't know what they mean. The way I see it, having letters makes learning, communication, the passing on of knowledge easier, less reliant on the spoken word and our own intuition. Having an alphabetical order also makes it easier to organize things. But people still function without letters, though it may be more difficult.
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`apocathary May 21, 2009, 4:41:48 PM
It's a framework that we work in, like numbers. Just a convenient reference that we can use to transmit ideas. If this particular brand of letters hadn't happened, some other form would have. If we'd been born as lower torsos with brains, our books would have been danced in the sand.

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`saintartaud May 21, 2009, 6:53:07 PM
If we'd been born as lower torsos with brains, our books would have been danced in the sand.

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