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> And everyone can communicate in words, typed out Obviously false, or else answer me in Cherokee, Tamil, Hindi, and Latin. Images can be understood beyond th
by derleth 13y ago
> And everyone can communicate in words, typed out
Obviously false, or else answer me in Cherokee, Tamil, Hindi, and Latin.
Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language.
- Millennium 13y agoLikewise false, or else find me an image that very clearly indicates the same content as, say, the Gettysburg Address. Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language, but only for the very simplest of concepts. Go more complex than a sentence or so, and interpretations begins to muddy the waters in ways that language simply does not.
- sageikosa 13y agoImages can be perceived and a narrative constructed regardless of language, but this may not be the same narrative the creator intended, in which case, nothing was communicated.
- leephillips 13y agoThose languages use words.
- derleth 13y agoHow many of those languages contain words you understand?
- adregan 13y agoWritten language is a system of images — sometimes with phonetic significance, sometimes ideogramatic.