Re: Non-verbal writing.

On 12/4/06, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
> If I were to develop Chimpanzeese, I have to consider the fact that
> they use visual information to a large extent in their communication.
> Humans do that too, of course, but largely we manage well with only
> the verbal information that we take down also in writing. Though the
> famous difficulty in using irony in writing shows that the
> information taken down is not complete. So I wonder if any of you
> have any experience with including non-verbal communiaction in
> writing. Emoticons of course is a famous way to solve it, and
> something similar can be done in any writing system, perhaps
> developing it to some kind of diacritics, special letters or other.
I vaguely remember a discussion on a non-verbal writing, but I can't
remember any details. Sai was in a lot of discussion about a
non-linear writing system, which I assume was also non-verbal. That
would be available in the archives.

What about non-physical, non-verbal communication, such as psychic
communication? I'm in the first stage of sketching out a language with
psychic (sort of) speakers, and I'm curious about how other conlangers
might have dealt with it.

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Katya

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