Glossary
A sign that represents an idea or concept, exemplified by sun plus moon yielding the concept of day.
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ideogram
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model
He models writing's development as a movement from pictograms to symbols to ideograms to sounds and consonants, with each innovation making language more flexible.
definition
He defines an ideogram as a sign that represents an idea or concept, and identifies Chinese as an ideogramic language in this lecture.
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"So, what this is saying is, if you work for me, I promise to give two people two bushels of wheat, okay? And so,..."
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"...have a concept, an idea, day, okay? We call this an ideogram. And guess what, guys? Chinese is an ideogramic language. Does that make..."
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"And we call this the alphabet. Does it make sense? Okay? So, this is the development of writing. And the reason why we do..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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