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An open question
Language
Who can wake a lost meaning?
Imagine inheriting khipus, records made from knotted cords, whose meanings nobody now knows how to read. You must choose: devote every resource to deciphering them, or preserve them and accept that some meanings may stay lost. Which mandate do you keep?
A record can survive after the knowledge needed to read it has been lost.
The live positions
Starting shores, not a quiz — the question stays open.
- 1Spend every resource to wake them; a living reader is all that is missing
- 2Protect them as they are; some meanings belong to their own world, not to us
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