Re: Optimum number of symbols

> ... English
> wouldn't be hurt by gaining symbols for "the" and "that", "of", "-ing",
> "'ll", a single symbol for past tense... maybe using diacritics instead
> of separate symbols? Hmmmmm!
>
I sort of tried this in an experimental poem.

<ahem>

Daffodil
---------------------------
$?<=-o-wander . ^@lone . +=as . %!cloud . @!self
$^?high . +~% . ?<=>-o-float . &*|over|vale . +::and . &*|over|hill
+>>>when . $^?sudden . $?<=<>see . %!crowd . @!self
@?# . $%*daffodil . {%host . ^%gold

? action, @ agent, -o- boundless, <> complete, = equative
{ grouplabel, + link, :: list, * many, ^ modifier, <=> now
& object, ! one, <= past, % patient, ~ relative, # repeat
>>> sequential, |xxx| spatial, $ emphasis
*wander* lone as cloud self
*high* float over vale and hill
when *sudden* *see* crowd self
*daffodil* host gold

</ahem>

Well, I never claimed it was a very *original* poem. At least I found one use
for Wordsworth's later works.

Rik, knee deep.