The history of the Mongolian language, both spoken and written, consists of three periods.
Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse.
The initial samples written consist of a regular series of line defects written by translating the sample through the focus of the laser beam.
" 'Streamers'... came out in three periods of writing consisting of four or five hours at each sitting, but these sittings were spread out over seven years".
These markings are thought to constitute a logographic form of writing consisting of some 1,200 different characters representing numerals, names, and such material objects as cloth and cow.
Every TV column I ever wrote consists of me trying and failing to write anything as explosively funny as that, for 650 words.
Most of the orchestral music Handel wrote consists of overtures, often in the style of Lully, and totaling about 80 in number.
But in English, the so-called infinitive "to write" consists of two words, not one: the subordinator "to" and the plain form of the verb "write", which can also appear without "to" in constructions such as "She helped him pack" and "You must be brave".
The lunch, he wrote, "consisted of four courses, with one vintage of Pavillon Blanc -- Margaux's sauvignon blanc -- as an aperitif, another with the langoustines, and with the rest of the meal a young vintage of Pavillon Rouge and a bottle of 1985 Château Margaux.
"To put it briefly," he told Simone de Beauvoir some time later, "in philosophy, writing consisted of analysing my ideas; and a tube of corydrane meant 'these ideas will be analysed in the next two days.' " Or, as the Ramones used to put it, Gabba Gabba Hey.
