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Re: PIKTO (was: A Font for Pictographs)

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Sunday, December 14, 2008, 19:12
--- On Sun, 12/14/08, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:

> From: Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...>
> This is very fascinating and I like it. > > I'm trying to understand the use of the repeated verb: > > 9. School began again. (head fill place begin begin) > 10. The child ran quickly. (person small run run) > > I'm trying to relate the concept of "again" > with an "intensive" form. - > begin begin vs. run run.
... Those first few pictographs were tossed together in an hour or so, just to get a feel for using the font, so they were not that well thought out. I think I need a better way to say "again", and probably a better way to intensify a verb. Maybe just a "plus", as in "double plus un-good". --gary