Aw: Re: Thoughts on working with the Emoji Subcommittee (was Re: Thoughts on Emoji Selection Process)

[Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode]

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

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