Aves wrote:
I think B is the best among the choices but I fail to understand the idiom not x but y here.
Not a direct rendering of speech but more than likely began
Can anyone shed some light?
Hi
here it is not that classical NOT X but Y...
According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech, but more than likelythe earliest writing began as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.
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