Re: Language comparison
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 8, 2005, 0:04 |
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Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
>> The aim of writing is not to fully use the paper, but to represent speech,
>> which is essencially bidimensional.
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> I strongly disagree on that. The aim of writing is to convey meaning.
That's not the aim of writing narrowly considered, but of graphics
in general (as my art teacher was fond of saying). We do have methods
of conveying specific meaning outside of speech; they're called icons,
the use of many of which are just as standardized as ordinary grammar.
*Muke!
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