Glyph

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By Carl Zimmer
Dec 5, 2008 11:08 AMMay 21, 2019 6:04 PM
Glyph

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Alice writes, "This is an Aztec speech glyph that dates back before the conquest.  I'm a linguist, and I believe this glyph embodies the impossible elegance of spoken language as well as the intrinsically artificial and cumbersome nature of written language."

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