Leo Autodidact: Oral tradition is reliable in preliterate cultures, especially if they had specific persons entrusted to remember these things like the Polynesian talking chiefs. Will Mariner records demonstrating the advantages of a written language while in Tonga. A talking chief admitted it had advantages, “but if it isn’t worth remembering, should it be preserved?”
Leo Autodidact: Oral tradition is reliable in preliterate cultures, especially if they had specific persons entrusted to remember these things like the Polynesian talking chiefs. Will Mariner records demonstrating the advantages of a written language while in Tonga. A talking chief admitted it had advantages, “but if it isn’t worth remembering, should it be preserved?”