His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching-a "y" to an "e" in a name for power, "sun-writing" becomes "light-drawing." The man eventually gave him this whole other tongue, and he revisited and at last learned from those cuttings about immense foreign wars.
( China Miéville )
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