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O mouths humanity seeks a new language
Beyond the reach of grammarians

— Guillaume Apollinaire Calligrammes (1918)

Ô bouches l'homme est a la recherche d'un nouveau langage
Auquel le grammairien d'aucune langue n'aura rien à dire

Original text (French)

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