Re: NATLANG: Chinese parts of speech (or lack thereof)

--- cph9fa <cph9fa@...> wrote:

>
> If you're reading this on a computer, close or
> minimize all the
> windows. See all those pretty little pictures (aka
> icons)? Viola!
> Modern pictograms. And they all fit within a perfect
> square. :-)
>
Yes, exactly. I heard somebody called them icons :-)
(and by the way, what kind of thing is a smiley ?) But
that looks very much like Chinese characters,
revisited. The difference is that in the toolbar,
there is no syntax to join the different icons
together: every one is an individual one (although
there are already possibilities for grouping some
icons together). Is this a new language to be born ?
Shall we get sentences, or full texts, made out of
icons ? That's exciting. And even more exciting if you
take into account the fact that (for the first time ?)
the written form will not be depending on the
phonetics. "Speech comes first, then does writing ?"
Haha ! Not at all.



=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)


		
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