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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6770 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 33 of 52 18 January 2010 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Like Greek, you mean? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| OneEye Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6852 days ago 518 posts - 784 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Taiwanese, German, French | Message 34 of 52 20 January 2010 at 5:29am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The Edo script from southern Nigeria is chromatographic. It is the only such script known to exist. It doesn't use color to distinguish parts of speech, but to distinguish otherwise identical graphemes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_script http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Edo. html Edited by OneEye on 20 January 2010 at 5:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5857 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 35 of 52 20 January 2010 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I am sorry, but can you tell me about Greek? There's a lack of material in Greek in this region I am in now......... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6770 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 36 of 52 20 January 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I don't know about the modern language, but in Ancient (Classical) Greek, nouns decline for gender, number, and case. Articles and adjectives also decline to match the noun. Example: ὁ καλος ἄνθρωπος "the good man" (nominative case) τοῦ καλοῦ ἀνθρώπου "the good man's" (genitive case) οἱ καλοι ἅνθρωποι "the good men" (plural nominative) The three words all decline together and usually have the same ending. Edited by Captain Haddock on 20 January 2010 at 5:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| victor-osorio Diglot Groupie Venezuela Joined 5434 days ago 73 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian | Message 37 of 52 20 January 2010 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
This seems more confusing to me than the original version without colors. I think if colors could improve our comprehension of those examples, it would be because they help us differentiate the different parts of them: the entities, the actions and the circumstances were those actions happened. That's a distinction used in Halliday's Functional Grammar when trying to understand the ideational meaning of a proposition, that is, what it says about reality. Here's how I would do it. I think it really improves the comprehension: NOMINAL GROUP/ENTITY VERBAL GROUP/ACTION ADVERBIAL GROUP/CIRCUMSTANCE CONJUNCTION The old man the boat. The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi. The government plans to raise taxes were defeated. The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. Edited by victor-osorio on 20 January 2010 at 5:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hifidristar Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6348 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 38 of 52 21 January 2010 at 9:52am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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For color coded scripts they would have to select the colors very carefully because people like me who are color blind would most likely have difficulties reading. In the first examples posted I can't see a difference between verbs and adjectives unless I really look hard.
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| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5523 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 39 of 52 21 January 2010 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Good point, but where do you draw the line? There are colour blind people with 2, 1 or even 0 types of cones! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6770 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 40 of 52 21 January 2010 at 11:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Well, there are people who are completely blind but that doesn't those of us who can from writing.
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