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Writing was violent in the good old days
Yes, but the result tended to be more durable than in our high-tech age: if you compare the hieroglyphs with our "hardcopy" that is washed away by a single sneeze.
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Carvings on stone are pretty good persistence-wise, clay tablets have the happy ability to turn into bricks when they've gone through an arson incident. It's the paper, wood, and wax media that were so ephemeral. Two fun sites to see original Latin and Greek epigraphy that has survived: http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/
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Kluge doesn't have a problem with it. "Die Bed.-Entfaltung im Germ. erklärt sich aus der Art, wie Runen in Holz, Stein usw. geritzt werden." But, I'm willing to say the etymology is problematic.
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