Jaaky. Is it possible to speak with spelling mistakes?

Delfina Gómez, new Secretary of Education in Mexico Daniel Aguilar / AP

If there is an exciting relationship, it is the one established between language and writing, the relationship now seems so close that we even confuse them, we have merged them so much in thought that if we talk about language, it almost always stands before our imagination a world inhabited by spellings.

In a linear view of history, the development of writing is seen as one of the great milestones that gave way to the development of great civilizations without considering the complex and very interesting history of writing in relation to the spoken language.

However, the language that ...

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