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A tall order for an ordinary human, but the heptapods are able to construct complex logograms in seconds.

the statute allows paid promotional use of logograms and identification

One of the most important changes of names at this Paris Air Show affected French industry, particularly with Aerospatiale Matra Missiles disappearing to become MBDA, a new logogram which stands for Matra BAe Dynamics Alenia (the latter name has not disappeared entirely from the aerospace scene since only the missiles activity of Alenia -- Alenia Marconi Systems -- was merged into the new corporation).

If we are to divide the writing systems in the world into three types: the logographic system (in which the minimal complete unit is a logogram), the syllabic system (in which the minimal complete unit is a syllable) and the alphabetic system (in which the minimal complete unit is an alphabet) (Writing system, Wikipedia), the Chinese writing system is a typical logographic system.

The text replaces the third version of Halloran's online Sumerian Lexicon, adding 2,600 new entries, correcting or expanding many of the previous entries, and merging together and sorting the logogram words and the compound words into purely alphabetical order.

Not only are these works from the early 1960s about love-erotic and indeed homoerotic love rather than the abstract agape of Robert Indiana's celebrated logogram -but they are unashamedly literary as well.

138-61); 2) in consonant-stem nouns there is a strong (exceptionless?) pattern by which those spelled in the dative-locative singular with logogram plus -i (e.g., KI-i 'earth') point to desinential accent and a long final /-i:/ (cf.

It thus seems that the "god with the snake and spring waters" could represent both Napirisa and Insusinak simultaneously, (19) which by no means implies that the two deities were in fact one--as was earlier believed to be the case for Napirisa and Humban, especially since napir risa means literally "great god" and is written with the logogram [sup.d]gal (see Hinz 1965).

Note that in both cases the logogram dingir/an is considered a scribal omission.

(23) Sumerian duh in the name of the gate is the common logogram for pataru, the root of the main verb in the line.

4': sa-us-si-ia (sg.d.-1.) after the logogram DUG.A may be an attribute or special designation / qualification of the water container.

Moreover, there were no instances of the sign value P[A.sub.5] being used phonetically, i.e., outside of its logogram meaning 'canal'.

191) is unclear, but there does not appear to be a manifest place name determinative, although the status of the two to three upright strokes in the middle of the logogram is open for discussion.

This unique logogram from Bogazkoy, which is unknown in the Mesopotamian cuneiform system, is already listed in Chr.