[pure-silver] Re: toxicity
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:19:41 -0700
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From: "Ken Sinclair" <photo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:42 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: toxicity
Alas,
History better indicates that pictographs were a means of
communication
and 'recording' before 'writing' (as we know it) was
invented.
ken
There are certainly many pictographic languages in the
world Chinese and Japenese among them. Spoken Chinese has
many dialects which are not mutually understandable by their
speakers. However the written language is pretty much
universal.
I think there may also be a difference in learning and
memory among people who are brought up with pictographic
languages. Specific pictographs must be learned and
remembered and they have a direct releationship to the
meaning. Phonetic languages, which include all European
languages, are doubly symbolic. That is, it is the spoken
words that convey the meaning and the symbols convey the
sounds. One can sound out a language which one does not
speak. The memory load is different since the spoken
language must be learned and the symbolic written language
is much simpler.
I found in translated instruction books that Sony, for
instance, tells you to make a measurement and _remember it_
where Ampex says "make a note of it". Maybe learning a
pictographic language results in a high development of some
memory centers than phonetic language. This argument
probably has holes in it but I am convinced that there is
some basis in truth.
It is interesting that one can read a pictographic
language without being able to speak it, or, for that
matter, even knowing how it sounds. Of course, one can speak
any language without being able to write it and we have
ancient languages such as classical Latin and Greek that
were written in a phonetic alphabet but the original sound
equivalents have been at least partially lost so no one
really knows how they sounded.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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