Imagine a way of writing || type || script in which ◇◇◇ letters are used to indicate || stand for sounds, but are used also to indicate emphasis || as accents and as marks of punctuation || punctuation signs. (One can regard a way of writing || type || script as a language for the description of sounds.) Now suppose someone understood || interpreted this || our way of writing || type || script as though it were one in which to every letter there simply corresponded a sound || all letters just stood for sounds, and as though the letters here did not have other very different functions as well || also have quite different functions. – An oversimplified view of the type like this one resembles, I believe, || Such an oversimplified view of our script is the analogon, I believe, to Augustine's view of language.

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