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"ref": "2003 January 29, James Landau <neurotico@aol.com>, “Re: Fickleness”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu:",
"text": "Make a con-script, if your language would have it. (If your language is simply a Romance altlang that stays reasonably close to the original locations, it probably wouldn't use any alphabet other than the Roman.)",
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}
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