What's important though is that writing only emerged about 5,000 years ago. So what that means is that all the people before there was any writing, every word that they ever said, every utterance disappeared. No trace. Evanescent. Gone.
O importante, no entanto, é que a escrita apenas surgiu cerca de 5.000 anos atrás. Isso significa portanto que todas as palavras ditas, todas as conversas tidas pelas pessoas que viveram antes da escrita desapareceram. Nenhum rastro.