S10: Writing systems
  
 

6. Persistence of logograms
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Even in alphabetic scripts some logograms persist:

Examples are:

  • the ciphers (0,1,2,…, in English: ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’…) and

  • signs like + (in English: ‘plus’), - (in English: ‘minus’), & (in English: ‘and’), and, recently added, @ (in English: ‘at’).
 
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