In the Land of INVENTED LANGUAGES by Okrent Arika
Author:Okrent, Arika [Okrent, Arika]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780385529716
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2009-05-19T04:00:00+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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