# What's your favorite written language to look at (not necessarily read)?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 9, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-written-language-to-look-at-not-necessarily-read/640483 "2012-11-09T15:06:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-written-language-to-look-at-not-necessarily-read/640483/30 "2012-11-10T16:53:14Z")

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(I hope I’m forgiven for a slightly off-topic response.)

Until a few decades ago, the Keno writers in Nevada casinos had a special way to write the digits 0 to 9. The shape of each digit was exaggerated beautifully so there could be no ambiguity whatsoever about what the digits were.

But this art disappeared with computer-printed tickets _ **and I can find no examples of that Keno-writer script with Google.** _ :mad: Help, please.

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