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Three lines of black text appear on a light seafoam green background:
La tartamudez nos ofrece tiempo
口吃者創創創創創創創創創創創造時間
Stuttering can create time.
The text is in a sans serif typeface organized in three straight lines within the top half of the composition. The bottom half of the composition is empty, emphasizing a sense of pauses, silences and expectations. The text is all lowercase and lacks punctuation, giving a casual and informal, almost text message-like feel. Each line of text represents a form of stuttered speech: blocks (pauses in speech), repetitions, and prolongations, respectively. The first line, in Spanish, translates literally to “Stuttering offers us time.” The space between “us” and “time” represents a block. The second line, in Chinese, translates literally to “People who stutter create time.” The first characters in the Chinese word for “create” are repeated. In the third line, in English, the “s” in “stuttering” is stretched horizontally to represent prolonged sound.