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What writing itself, in its nonphonetic moment, betrays, is life.

From The New Yorker • May 31, 2010

"It makes nonphonetic English a phonetic language without changing the traditional spellings."

From Time Magazine Archive

The earliest Sumerian writing consisted of nonphonetic logograms.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

He had meant to start teaching Sonny blacksmithing, but during the evening Lillian and Anna had decided to try teaching Mom a nonphonetic, ideographic, alphabet, and in the morning they co-opted Sonny to help.

From Naudsonce by Piper, H. Beam