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>From Simon St.Laurent:
>English lets you say damn near anything using any grammar you please,
>and pretty rough speling as wel. As wide-open as English is, it ain't
>so tolerant - most readers ain't tolerant - of Chinese characters (or
>other non-Latin forms except in parens with a translation) appearing
>in the middle of English sentences. Logos and currency signs are
>occasional exceptions.
I disagree; there is a class of childrens books that use pictures and other
symbols interchangably with English. On the other end of the spectrum,
mathematics books also contain a lot of rarely-used symbols intertwined with
the text.
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Jimmy Cerra
http://subbieweb.tripod.com
"If the path is set in stone, use a sledgehammer"
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