I feel that it would be helpful if there were symbols that could be used in
a non-language-specific manner for phrases such as Hello and Thank you
and Best regards, and so on.
Most ideographs in use are pictographs, for obvious reasons. But it would be
nice indeed to have ideograms for
Am 30.01.2013 um 12:56 schrieb William_J_G Overington:
I feel that it would be helpful if there were symbols that could be used in a
non-language-specific manner for phrases such as Hello and Thank you and
Best regards, and so on.
But there are, plenty of it. Though not yet for the phrases
Thank you for your comments.
Here are some pictographs displayed well in Google street view.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=47.279364,0.421498spn=0.001321,0.002248t=mz=18layer=ccbll=47.279429,0.420475panoid=Q_-nApHRA1Aq9IN4YPRzGQcbp=12,175.95,,0,4.88
Zooming-in three times is possible.
One can
On 2013年1月30日, at 上午4:50, Andreas Stötzner a...@signographie.de wrote:
Most ideographs in use are pictographs, for obvious reasons. But it would be
nice indeed to have ideograms for “thanks”,
謝
“please”,
請
“yes”,
對
“no”,
不
“perhaps”
許
– all those common notions which cannot be
A very accessible book on all this is The Chinese Language: Fact and
Fantasy by John De Francis, published in 1984 by University of Hawaii
Press. There is a brief synopsis on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chinese_Language:_Fact_and_Fantasy
- Tim
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:46 PM,
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