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Symbols, in origin, fundamentally have no meaning.
by throwaway2048 9y ago
Symbols, in origin, fundamentally have no meaning.
- goldenkey 9y agoYet 99.9999% of the world are no longer babies. So symbols do..not in origin/pouch...have meaning. Why not go with symbols that have inherent meaning rather than unsupplemented ones?
- gumby 9y agoHow true is that? A started as a cow (flip it upside down). That meaning is lost, true, but the Sackcasse (no exit) street sign, or a "T" junction street sign both abstract a physical system. The Korean alphabet shapes relate to the shape your mouth adopts to make the sound. Many Hanzi have structural association (even ignoring the radicals, which you could consider for the purpose of this discussion analogous to spelling) And the meaning of the chemical symbols (e.g. "Fe" as the symbol for iron) made a lot of them easier for me to learn, though if you don't grow up with the right set of languages they are somewhat arbitrary. And, of course, they provide employment for semioticists.