#orthography — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #orthography, aggregated by home.social.
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Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc3f8ce8-d665-447a-8be4-ed4294f784be
#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #bookillustration #woodcut #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc3f8ce8-d665-447a-8be4-ed4294f784be
#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #bookillustration #woodcut #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc3f8ce8-d665-447a-8be4-ed4294f784be
#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #bookillustration #woodcut #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc3f8ce8-d665-447a-8be4-ed4294f784be
#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #bookillustration #woodcut #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc3f8ce8-d665-447a-8be4-ed4294f784be
#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #bookillustration #woodcut #art #publicdomain
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Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8647488f-dc91-4b3c-88c4-f28a67090e20
#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #bookillustration #woodcut #art #publicdomain
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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