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From antiquity many such chameleonic switchovers are preserved on papyrus, parchment, stone, and bone and in clay, Greek letters serving to write Demotic Egyptian, Babylonian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Indian, and Latin.
And anyway, to quote John Ashbery, "What need for purists when the demotic is built to last?"
The writing may not be polished, but "[w]hat this demotic, you-are-there prose lacks in literary finesse ...
Conversely, Demotic Egyptian signs and Hebrew, Armenian, and Latin letters were sometimes used to write Greek.
Until then, I think I had assumed that only the everyday speech of the man in the street and the very demotic Greek of some magazines and newspapers had incorporated these borrowings.