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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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What Is the Best Writing Surface for Papyrus?

Unlike clay which is a difficult material to write in because it's messy If you scrape the clay out so you may have formed is impressed and you have a limited number of shapes available based on the read shape. Papyrus is effectively painted upon so you have a lot more flexibility more curves and so forth or possible On any of these paper like surfaces So I guess it it will depend probably on what your writing implement is What you can do more than anything else for papyrus. The next writing surface is great and this is the one I most want to start hearing about in fantasy novels and that is wax tablets These were used in the Greco-Roman world for day-to-day stuff.

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