Tironian notes ( " " ), also known as Tironian shorthand, consisted of abbreviations with Latin letters, abstract symbols contrived by Tiro, and symbols borrowed from Greek shorthand.
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:: I'd say always use ( K . I . A ) since I'm not really a fan of using abstract symbols where something meaningful could be used instead.
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Some of the symbols in the Hu vessels are Taotie or demon face, dragons, realistic animals and birds, and some of the abstract symbols like bowstrings meanings were unknown.
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Many of them favored a broad explanation of writing's origins in the visual arts, pictograms of things being transformed into increasingly abstract symbols for things, names and eventually words in speech.
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The symbols themselves consist of a variety of abstract and representative pictograms, including zoomorphic ( animal-like ) representations, combs or brush patterns and abstract symbols such as swastikas, crosses and chevrons.
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Therefore, these extremely abstract symbols cannot in writing visually depict the truth tables themselves, the simple geometric forms, the notational symmetry relations, and the isomorphic sets of interrelations inherent in logic.
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But that, she says, is exactly the challenge that faces the child who is just learning to read _ trying to put a series of abstract symbols together to convey a meaning.
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Arms of merchants in Poland and eastern Germany are often based on house marks, abstract symbols resembling runes, though they are almost never blazoned as runes, but as combinations of other heraldic charges.
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They may show a fair amount of phonetic detail, usually of a phoneme's most common allophone, but because they are abstract symbols they do not need to resemble any sound at all directly.
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These works, such as the Jewish Motif ( 1961 ), Arch in Blue-Purple ( 1961 ), or The Creation, Sarajevo Haggadah ( 1966 ), exhibit abstract symbols of metaphysical significance.
