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

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 11, 2004, 14:28
On Aug 11, 2004, at 12:54 AM, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> --- 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
Actually, a friend of mine recently had as an AIM away message a 'story' written entirely in smileys, followed by a translation. -Stephen (Steg) "so pull me under your weather patterns the cold fronts and the rain don't matter cause a sunburst's what i needed" ~ 'hurricane' by something corporate