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  1. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  2. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  3. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  4. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  5. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  6. 'No' - A Linguistic Tangle

    Learn why the abbreviation 'no.' comes from French 'numéro' for number, not English 'no' for negation. Understand its history and digital issues.

    #abbreviations, #frenchlanguage, #linguistics, #orthography, #unicode

    newsletter.tf/why-no-means-num

  7. 'No' - A Linguistic Tangle

    Learn why the abbreviation 'no.' comes from French 'numéro' for number, not English 'no' for negation. Understand its history and digital issues.

    #abbreviations, #frenchlanguage, #linguistics, #orthography, #unicode

    newsletter.tf/why-no-means-num

  8. 'No' - A Linguistic Tangle

    Learn why the abbreviation 'no.' comes from French 'numéro' for number, not English 'no' for negation. Understand its history and digital issues.

    #abbreviations, #frenchlanguage, #linguistics, #orthography, #unicode

    newsletter.tf/why-no-means-num

  9. 'No' - A Linguistic Tangle

    Learn why the abbreviation 'no.' comes from French 'numéro' for number, not English 'no' for negation. Understand its history and digital issues.

    #abbreviations, #frenchlanguage, #linguistics, #orthography, #unicode

    newsletter.tf/why-no-means-num

  10. RE: toad.social/@wdlindsy/11647180

    there is no El Quijote without the emdash.

    Cervantes had it published in 1605. that first chapter is considered THE MASTERPIECE of prose writing; and not just for its beauty. there’s whole polemics on his strategic use of the emdash and other orthographical marks because Cervantes literally established what we know as #prose #orthography with El Quijote.

    technofascists have derided for so long the liberal arts ―to sell their lies of forever STEM jobs― that many are culturally illiterate.

  11. RE: toad.social/@wdlindsy/11647180

    there is no El Quijote without the emdash.

    Cervantes had it published in 1605. that first chapter is considered THE MASTERPIECE of prose writing; and not just for its beauty. there’s whole polemics on his strategic use of the emdash and other orthographical marks because Cervantes literally established what we know as #prose #orthography with El Quijote.

    technofascists have derided for so long the liberal arts ―to sell their lies of forever STEM jobs― that many are culturally illiterate.

  12. RE: toad.social/@wdlindsy/11647180

    there is no El Quijote without the emdash.

    Cervantes had it published in 1605. that first chapter is considered THE MASTERPIECE of prose writing; and not just for its beauty. there’s whole polemics on his strategic use of the emdash and other orthographical marks because Cervantes literally established what we know as #prose #orthography with El Quijote.

    technofascists have derided for so long the liberal arts ―to sell their lies of forever STEM jobs― that many are culturally illiterate.

  13. RE: toad.social/@wdlindsy/11647180

    there is no El Quijote without the emdash.

    Cervantes had it published in 1605. that first chapter is considered THE MASTERPIECE of prose writing; and not just for its beauty. there’s whole polemics on his strategic use of the emdash and other orthographical marks because Cervantes literally established what we know as #prose #orthography with El Quijote.

    technofascists have derided for so long the liberal arts ―to sell their lies of forever STEM jobs― that many are culturally illiterate.

  14. RE: toad.social/@wdlindsy/11647180

    there is no El Quijote without the emdash.

    Cervantes had it published in 1605. that first chapter is considered THE MASTERPIECE of prose writing; and not just for its beauty. there’s whole polemics on his strategic use of the emdash and other orthographical marks because Cervantes literally established what we know as #prose #orthography with El Quijote.

    technofascists have derided for so long the liberal arts ―to sell their lies of forever STEM jobs― that many are culturally illiterate.