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If you can read this text, then you will still struggle reading Kovolak's We Are All People, But Language? His book is completely written using archaic and ancient English dialect and symbols, that are even harder than this! It was his first English book. ~ Kovolak's "Opening Phrase" "Ȝour cæt ƿeolc toƿardſ me on ðȝ lǣſtan dæȝ. Ac ƿa hwā scolde æſcian hit tō lǣfan? Ȝe ƿǣron tō fōliſce tō æſcian hit tō lǣfan. “Uhʔoh” ȝe simplȝ gǣſped þā ic cnucode ȝe doƿn. ⁊ ðæt wæs ðe ende of ðæt." ~ Excerpt from the prologue of We Are All People, But Language? "✠ ⁂ Ic, Kovolak, ƿrite þās spell. Min forma dēop-þōht ⁂ unforlíegendlīc is þæt þū hæfdest geworht spell þe mæȝ ƿeorðan ƿorſra. Þīne spell sindon ƿorſran, forþan þe þū forlēte hwæt ic eom ✠. Ic ƿrite tō cyþenne ⁊ tō læranne, mid eallre eaðmodnesse ✶. Ic eom nīƿ tō þissere sprǣce, tō þissum nama, ac þū ne miht forniman mīne ārȝe ⁂. Nǣfre ic ne mæg ne ne scyle rīpstōƿ brūcan. Sēoð, þū bist se rǣdere, ic eom se gās...