It's very common for words used to mean "write" to predate writing. "Write" itself predates writing by thousands of years.
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White historians are weird, amirite?
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Well, I guess we need an idea/rough concept, before we do the actual thing
Edit: on second thought, how do we even know that it predates writing, when there are no records of it?
It's common for words used to mean "write" to predate writing. "Write" itself predates writing by thousands of years.
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