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I love ligatures, I think because they are used so infrequently these days that they have become exotic. Found this morning:

Hey all. I had this weird thought: If, in some bizarre alternate history, chatspeak abbreviations like “LOL” had become popular long before there were computers and character sets, they might have, over time, become new symbols, like “et” became “&” and “at” became “@”. What might they look like?

This would make a great assignment for a typography class.