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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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Amate Um in China

Amate is made from the bark not from pulp really right? Okay. They would make um long thin slips of bamboo Or sometimes wood Um, which were wide enough to hold a single Column of characters And then they'd string them all along with two strings down different partsUm, and then you'd roll this thing up. It's still used in parts of Mizoamerica as either for either sort of cultural ceremonial purposes or sort of touristy Things or art sort of indigenous art. The Chinese to use silk all we have to say about this is that it's very expensive Uh, I would imagine you just like paint on silk basically absolutely absolutely just like you would with Gotta be very

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