On 08/23/2018 06:48 AM, Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode wrote:
On 8/23/2018 3:28 AM, "Jörg Knappen" wrote:
Asmus,
I know your style of humor, but to keep it straight:
All known human languages, even Piraha, have pronouns for "I" and "you".
And languages like Japanese, tend to use them - mostly not.
Even if the concepts are known, and can be named, there are deep
differences across languages concerning the need or conventions for
demarcating them with words in any given context.
Replacing words by symbols is not going to fix this - the only way to
get a 'universal' system of symbolic expression is to invent a new
language, with its own conventions for use of these symbols in any
given context.
It isn't like replacing words with symbols hasn't been tried... I think
Francis Lodwick had a "universal symbology" like this in the works in
the 1600s.
~mark
