pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on fri 11 jul 03
Language as metephors...
Hi Lee,
And all...
English is 'pictographic', it's intimations of liniality lay
in the tenses of use or apprehension it enjoys.
Even as the liniality of otherwise pictographic language may
be understood to be something of the tense of use or
apprehension such may enjoy.
Or am I the only one as sees this?
Phil
lasvegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Love"
To:
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:43 PM
Subject: Language and Creativity ; was: Re: Craft and Art
Appreciation
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MJ Moriarty"
>
>
>
> > I am speaking from a warehouse of ignorance here, and
this is not a theory
> > I have systematically researched, but I wonder if some
of the difference
> > between Japan and the west is because their writing
system is pictographs,
> > so they read using the part of the brain that processes
images.
>
> The Zen writer Allen Watts once said that we should
have two
> international languages: English for science and
technology and Chinese for
> Art, poetry and philosophy. Linear languages are more
precise, quantitative
> and "efficient", but pictographic language is better at
nuances, quality and
> expression. Chinese is a better example of a strict
pictographic language.
>
> Japan has always been an assimilative society.
It has both
> pictographic Kanji and linear katakana and hirigana. It
is said that Kobo
> Daishi (774-835 C.E.
http://www.asunam.com/kukai_page.htm ) invented the kana
> to help facilitate translating Buddhist text into the
Japanese from Chinese and
> Sanskrit.
>
> Japan's ability to assimilate western science and
technology was
> probably aided by their use of precise linear kana.
Japanese, like English,
> is very quick to accept foreign words into its language.
>
> --
>
> Lee Love
> Mashiko JAPAN Ikiru@hachiko.com
> "Life is an expression not so much of matter as of
its informing
> pirit." --Joe Campbell
>
>
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Jan L. Peterson on fri 11 jul 03
Langua...
Phil; Please elucidate on why you see English as pictoral. Would have been my
last thought. Jan
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