S10: Writing systems
  
 

1. Meaning sound and looks - C) Looks: the graphic aspect
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  • Ultimately, graphic forms have taken preponderance over phonetic forms.

  • Graphic forms do thus no longer degenerate. Gloucester remains Gloucester, and Edinburgh will always be Edinburgh, whatever it has got to sound like (Glouster, Edinbro). The names are what they look like!.

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