
Episode 18: Sascha Engel on “Breaking the Alphabet”
Hilaritas Press Podcasts
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Is the Handwritten Latin Alphabet a Human Being?
The handwritten Latin alphabet is closer to what it is like to be a human being than swiping on the smartphone. The Greek phonetic alphabet? Is that closer to being a human being? And Egypt's hieroglyphs are so different from our own phonetic alphabet in that these signs are symbols, they have multiple meanings.
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