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Re: Re (3): Intuitive explanation of currying.
Posted:
Jul 21, 2012 4:56 PM
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Am 21.07.2012 21:21, schrieb Steve Schafer:
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> So getting back to the written word... Written language is, essentially,
> a general-purpose and extensible pictographic notation. For the most
> part, the pictures have completely lost their original meanings, but
> they're still pictures, just a different kind. I can't speak for others,
> but when I'm reading text, there is no "extra stage of the <sound
> repesenting the word/s>"; for familiar words, the _visual_ arrangement
> of symbols in a word is, as far as I can tell, translated directly into
> the concept in my brain.
I find it very interesting that you wrote this (about European
languages, I presume), for I thought till the present that that
applies only to a language like Chinese where the characters have
genuine pictographic origins.
M. K. Shen
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