Another Short History of Linguistics (65)

When we start to thinking, we may inter the interface of thinking from plenty doors of our mind. We may regard any of the first word or character as a door. The word ‘entry’ is very good word. It seemed to me is an entrance to the CPU or the room of human’s mind. For an individual, the so called knowledge, is something you can remembered; those you cannot remembered is not knowledge that belong to you. A word or a character or other meaning carrier is an entrance that leading you to the address, where the memory you wanted is stored. Then the Chines writing system have around 3,000 entrance, according the number of 3,000 characters in used. English speaker has around 30,000 entrances according the number that they can remembered. When you start to thinking or speaking, you may started from any door. That is the difference between human’s mind and computer is that when start operation, the human’s mind can started from any door of either picture characters or a certain word, but the computer had to start from one door as a keyboard or from a certain picture that human chosen.

Semantic or ontology reflected that after adopted alphabetic language, the people missing the structure of pictogram. For when developing a new words, the pictogram had to have using a structure of semantic or ontology, because the image of male horse, female horse and young horse has no different. The best way to distinguish them is put an adjective in front of a neutral horse to indicate what sort of horse it is. While the alphabetic language adopted new words from various local accents. That is to say, once they need a word and find a different local accent then they adopted it as a new word in their own language.