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Deciphering Ancient Scripts: Interview with Silvia Ferrara

Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast

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Is There a Difference Between Drawings and Signs?

"It is really, really fcult to draw the line by which we can say, that's not a drawing any more. It becomes acquiring a sound," he says. "The whole thing, the whole idea of a sign that becomes a sound, and a written sound, should go back to the poleolithic." The author has just published another book for the same publishing house that published his first work: 'Isalto'

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