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Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark
CT always mention his father's illegible notes... Tolkien had horrible andwriting for a linguistt.  |
Well, that does not have much to do with it. Linguist is focusing on spoken language or old language which is written down, but probably does not care anymore whether somebody in the future will decipher his handwriting 
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories
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