[MUD-Dev] Internationalisation: The effect of Tongues invirtualsocietes

[John Buehler]

Michael Chui writes:
> --- David Kennerly <kennerly at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> Michael Chui wrote:

> This was a prediction, and clearly, there's probably no real path
> to it right now. I've been thinking, lately, about how language
> would be like if it had been developed via pattern recognition
> rather than sequential thinking. I hypothesized that the result
> would have been ideas communicated, perhaps, by picture, with
> details added by detailing this visual image.

Huh?  What?  Cave drawings?  Pictographs?  Pictures as a means of
communication WERE first.  Asian languages use symbols that are
matched one-to-one with patterns identified by the human brain.  My
personal theory is that sequential thinking, as you call it, is a
variation of pattern-based operation of the human brain.  Sequence
is a pattern, in other words.  And a very useful one because of the
variations of concepts that need to be communicated through the
written word.

JB
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