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James Cerra writes:
> >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.
And English is also full of exceptions that prove the rule.
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Simon St.Laurent
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