Author: anafraley47

Writing systems don’t just record language—they behave.Spend enough time looking at scripts, and they start to feel less like tools and more like characters, each…

J. R. R. Tolkien did not begin by inventing stories. He began by inventing scripts. For Tolkien, writing systems were not decorative additions to a fictional world—they were…

Comparing a Few Writing Systems Writing systems are often discussed as if they are answers to the same question—how do we write language?In practice,…