this sounds a little like learning hebrew. hebrew used in common use
(most newspapers, signs, tv, computers) doesn't have the dots and
dashes, as people know the (vocabulary) words so know how to pronounce
them. but when you're learning it, the dots and dashes give you the
rules on pronunciation of the words.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Martin Ahnelöv <operagasten_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> fre 2008-02-22 klockan 15:42 +0000 skrev Dave Griffiths:
> When I read this, I came to think of an article I read several years
> ago about Japanese mobile phones, when text-messages was the New Thing.
>
> Since the Japanese language contain so many signs, they can't fit them
> all on a mobile-phone keyboard, so they had to cut them upp in
> different patterns that appear throughout the signs. A dot in the
> top-left corner, a horisontal line in the center, etc.
>
> These patterns doesn't mean anything by them self, but if you combine
> them like you combine clothings for a paper doll, you can create all
> the complex Japanese signs.
>
> Note, I read this a _very_ long time ago, and I don't think I can trust
> the source so I might be very very wrong, but still, one could create a
> graphical Forth-like language like this. (Dave: a betablocker for PacketForth? :-)
>
> Hope I've made myself clear,
> Gasten
>
>
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