Re: Non-linear / full-2d writing systems?

On 5/4/05, Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
> Has anyone other than me attempted to make one, or theorized about how
> one would do so & the consequences thereof? I'm fairly sure this is
> true, but I can't find any examples thereof via Google...
SF writer Ted Chiang did that, in his short story "The Story of Your Life".
You *must* read it!

Here is a good review:
http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2004/04/story_of_your_l.html

Note the description of Heptapod B, how it is "semagram", not "logogram",
how it is written in non-linear older, and how the writing system
alters the thought
process. (Sapir-Whorf, anyone?)

Seo Sanghyeon

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