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• From: "James Cerra" <jc2astro@h...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:52:33 -0400
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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.

---
Jimmy Cerra
http://subbieweb.tripod.com
"If the path is set in stone, use a sledgehammer"


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