(I couldn’t find a sub for hypotethical questions…)

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      2 days ago

      If you’re not asking about anything that we currently don’t have a word for, we can use words as the alphabet, sure.

      We then need to transmit a list of words, they’re allowed to use, otherwise our count is off, because I’m sure that 974 years from now english won’t be the same, as it is today. They’ll have a lot more skibid rizz than we do now.

      • use Chinese xD

        logographic languages tend to last longer, especially now all the characters are digitized.

        A “Computer” didn’t exist in ancient times, but they still used words that have always existed to create new compound words: 电脑 (“Electric” + “Brain”). Airplanes didn’t exist but they still came up with the word 飞机 (“Flying” + “Machine”)