Each person should be literate in at least one language with an ideographic written form
By
Vynce
on March 06, 2007
Among other things, it encourages grace and artistry, and can teach a notion that grammar can be applied to images, which aids in paving the way toward iconographic communication that can be more independent of language, c.f. the laundry care instructions you likely ignore on the tags of your clothing.
(by ideographic, I mean to include the partially ideographic or ideographic root languages, such as written Mandarin.)
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I'm not sure on this one. And I think having at least one phoneticesque language is more important. Since I want one phoneticesque and one signed, I'm not sure the third should be ideographic.
But maybe.
it's a neat idea, but all ideographic languages have some phonetic components (you can think of them as phonetic puns, or rebuses). Which makes we wonder if ideographic languages are secretly phonetic languages with really really huge alphabets.
there are people who claim so, but learning to see the mountain in 'shan' and the horse in 'ma' were very good experiences, and i think exposure to the idea is useful and good.
I have no truck with the "grace and artistry" line, but that doesn't stop the claim proper from being true.
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