That's a lot of words Carlisle. Normally he wouldn't even be listening or paying attention, but he's kind of frazzled by having a bunch of unpleasant memories flooding in so the distraction of listening to someone ramble on about shit he doesn't understand is sort of welcome.

"Every glyph means something right? Can you .. read them? If you saw one you didn't know, would you be able to tell what it did?"

That's an awfully pointed question from someone who's a big dumb brute.