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Even extra unsettling is the demonstrated capability of the sinographic script to incorporate letters of the alphabet as characters, e.g., BB for “infant” in Cantonese, BP or BB for “beeper” in Shanghainese, and so forth. Even though its sounds are distinctive, the shapes of the characters are the very same. There is really no explanation for it to set itself apart from Chinese characters. This technique of classification is now adopted by Chinese linguists for all the other languages of the world, including the numerous non-Sinitic languages of China, but it has strangely never been applied comprehensively to the Sinitic...