From drawing cows to just writing "A" - that's 5,000 years of efficiency gains in written language. Ancient Egyptians would spend all day sketching a bull's head while modern Latin users just scribble a triangle and call it a day. Classic example of how humans evolve toward maximum laziness. The letter "A" actually evolved from an Egyptian hieroglyph representing an ox head - turn it upside down and you can still see the horns. Linguists call this the principle of least effort, but I call it "why draw the whole cow when sticks do trick?"
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