Essentially, they postulate that no full writing system can be completely pictographic or ideographic; it must be able to refer directly to a language in order to have the full expressive capacity of a language. Unger disputes claims made on behalf of Blissymbols in his 2004 book Ideogram.
Last update: 01/2001. These idioms are used on a daily basis in Portugal. The messages they convey are, for the most part, universal, and many other cultures have their equivalents. The uniqueness of these idioms is in the way the messages are expressed. The choice of words, in many cases, exposes traces of a culture centered around farming, fishing and Catholicism.
Portuguese: tchau (goodbye), tchau tchau (bye bye), or tchauzinho (bye); in Portugal xau is also used, without the t sound, especially in written informal language such as SMS or web chats; Romanian: ciao (hello or goodbye); it is often written as ceau although this form is not officially in the Romanian vocabulary