
70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)
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Runic Writing
Rune expert Jackson Crawford points out that the S has not three jaggies but four. He thinks that that might be because this is part of a creative period. So do we know about where it came from? Because it doesn't look like Latin script. Some people like to argue that it was borrowed from Latin script, but other people say, no, it's not at all.
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