skull candle
vends ullages
yellow blink
gray sky yearning
pyramid days
the blank slate
of the old lies
tiresome scorn
radio skips
pyramid days
ticket print
to prove purchase
scourge uptick
clawpair scuttle
pyramid days
Explore five medieval manuscripts just acquired by the British Library.
"You can't just add symbols to a book willy-nilly. It would bring about total anarchy, a dissolution of our linguistic foundations, if anybody who got a notion into his mind could just add symbols and claim that it is only his 'grammatical idiosyncrasy.' If I allow this, I must allow all individuals within my populous [sic] to add symbols at a whim, which I cannot do. Obviously, this is not practical. How would it work? Would a dictionary's author, at that point, just add symbol upon symbol, thus adding word upon word, just to satisfy Ovid's push toward linguistic innovation?" --Phong Nguyen, Roundabout (2020)
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