Glyph

ByCarl Zimmer
December 05, 2008

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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