“ [letters are] Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ‘em to make short words for long words.
Harv in Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, ‘Part The First’, chapter ‘Nell learns to work the matter compiler; youthful indiscretions; all is made better.’
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