Are symbols counted as part of the English language?
The English language is fundamentally the spoken English language. The writing system for English, and for other languages of European origin is mostly the Latin alphabet. However symbols (and abbreviations) are also used to indicate some of the words, less so in formal writing and more so in informal writing. Mathematical symbols have come into use because, once one learns the ones used in a particular branch of mathematics or logic or another technical field, it is easier to understand it. Most people would admit that 5 × (10 + 25) is easier to understand than “five times the quantity ten plus twenty-five end-quantity”. Indeed, the words “quantity” and “end-quantity” are really only substitutes in English for symbols in a separate international mathematical language. In mathematical language, the symbols are more important than the English, or French, or German, or Swahili ways of saying what the mathematic language is saying. The English translation of such a symbol is English, but
