12 May 2017 - words: vocabulary varves

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As vocabulary varves accumulate over the years and over the pages, tree rings laid flat, fewer than ever are able to distinguish geomorphological from morphophonological processes. And why should they? The phonograph is obsolete, and the sensible do not believe in graphology.

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