The Script
Linear A has hundreds of signs. They are believed to represent syllabic, ideographic, and semantic values in a manner similar to Linear B. While about fifty signs are similar to those in Linear B, approximately 80% of Linear A's sign inventory is unique.
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Famous quotes containing the word script:
“Take what the old-church
found in Mithra’s tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
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that can’t be used to keep us passive:
I want to write
a script about plumbing, how every pipe
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