{"id":1895,"date":"2014-08-20T20:03:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2014-08-20T20:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T19:14:53","slug":"the-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/1895-the-signs.html","title":{"rendered":"The Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have visited both Egypt<\/a> and China<\/a>, the two\u00a0cultures that have maybe the most well-known sign based written languages. The idea that other cultures have evolved completely different ways to document history in really interesting. From paintings on the wall, via the knot-language of the old Incas to our binary representations in our computers, language and meaning can be represented in a lot of different ways. If you are interested in history and languages I recommend you to read the history of the Rosetta stone and the race between France and England trying to decode\u00a0the hieroglyphic language.<\/p>\n

The Rosetta stone<\/a> is a black stone found by the French army in Egypt during the Napoleonic wars. The stone\u00a0had the same text in three languages (Greek, Coptic and using hieroglyphs), and this\u00a0enabled us to start cracking the Egyptian written language\u00a0after maybe 1500 years where no-one knew how to read the language.<\/p>\n

Now, some of us might be mistaken into believing that we only use\u00a0the phonetic alphabet and \u00a0the written word\u00a0to communicate in our part of the world, but we use sign languages too. Everywhere we go we see signs telling us what not to do and where we can travel.<\/p>\n

\"Hieroglyphs\" <\/a>
Hieroglyphs <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Modern <\/a>
Modern signs <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mandarin\" <\/a>
Mandarin <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

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