After reading the story of John Quijada's Ithkuil language
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners>
(thanks Vijay!), I started following some interesting language links on the
web, and stumbled across this amazing but sad story about Charles Bliss'
Symbol Language <http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/>.
The story is a podcast of an NPR Radiolab program about various kinds of
"Bliss", but the amazing story of the Bliss Symbol Language starts about
5:27 into the podcast. I think the symbolic language piece was the main
topic of the podcast. Just goes to show you how a symbolic language can
change lives... ;-)

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