Should Myconids know how to Read and Write?

[granny]

I had myself on the thought that Myconids would be close to alien creatures that communicate with us through their puffing of spores, which they'd use to shape their ideas and feelings into meanings, somewhat directly into the minds of other creatures.

Considering that they do not have fingers and that they're a society completely different from the others, I find it amusing that they communicate with letters as well.

... should we consider that they saturate the paper with their spores in order to bring forward their message to explain this? Would the EFU community have other explanations? Or would we consider that the Myconids shouldn't be communicating through letters and posters at all?

[wundyweiss]

hasn't the 'lore' on efu been that language, both written and spoken, is universal, so people wouldn't have to worry over trivial things?

[Mushroom Mushroom]

I had myself on the thought that Myconids would be close to alien creatures that communicate with us through their puffing of spores, which they'd use to shape their ideas and feelings into meanings, somewhat directly into the minds of other creatures.

Considering that they do not have fingers and that they're a society completely different from the others, I find it amusing that they communicate with letters as well.

... should we consider that they saturate the paper with their spores in order to bring forward their message to explain this? Would the EFU community have other explanations? Or would we consider that the Myconids shouldn't be communicating through letters and posters at all?

I imagine that the Myconid are well aware of common and reading and writing due to the fact they often desire to trade with other occupants in the Underdark. It's easier that way.

[CondorHero]

They could learn to read and write in school, maybe. The Elder myconids are the culmination of many myconids life times. If one learn how to read the one that absorbs it would then know how to read and teaches the other shorelines.

Also, there has been people passing through their home town. It wouldn't be a stretch to have myconids encounter human writings as well, there's plenty of scratched notes and journals around, afterall. Perhaps they learned that way and some of them assimilated some aspects of human culture into their own.

As for how they write, I'll wait for the mushroom pics to explain that one.

[Howlando]

They can write and they have stubby little hands.