In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius by Arika Okrent
Author:Arika Okrent [Okrent, Arika]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, Lojban (Artificial Language), Language, Linguistics, Loglan (Artificial Language), Miscellaneous, Artificial, General, Languages, Klingon (Artificial Language), Foreign Language Study, Blissymbolics, Esperanto, Languages; Artificial
ISBN: 9780812980899
Google: 3anWeY0G2moC
Amazon: 0812980891
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2010-01-01T05:00:00+00:00
Blissymbolics was in some ways a throwback to the seventeenth-century philosophical languages. Bliss broke down the world into essential elements of meaning and derived all other concepts through combination. But his symbols got their meaning not by referring back to a conceptual catalog (à la Wilkins) or a stanza and line of a memorized verse (à la Dalgarno) but by presenting a picture. Here are some of his basic symbol elements:
Bliss conveys more complex notions in a less direct manner—rain is not a drawing of rain, but a combination of “water” and “down”:
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