Neo Ideograms

someone asked me for ids for “out of body experience” and “in body experience”. I don’t know what is meant by latter though.

I am not qualified to make accurate ids for Japanese characters–they’re too nuanced and complex for a non-native speaker. But I did get something out of this exercise, most prominently a good way to represent passive voice.

The general problems are interesting tho. For a single Japanese compound, like “seikatsu” (economy) I could make simpler replacements for the individual kanji or replace the compound with a single simple id. I did go through a book of kanji and make id replacements. I found it often difficult, mainly since a single kanji can have many disparate, diverse meanings. The same thing occurs in English though, with words like, for instance, “figure” and “get” with all of their meanings.

A page from the book. Note how compact the ids are.

I generously offer, if anyone is interested, to provide explanatory notes for this transcription. Just send me an email at the contact address on this site.

Illustrating, again, the superiority of ids over Chinese characters:

I have made many new ideograms with the “resource” idea.

I write ids with speed and ease–a kind of shorthand. Writing stuff out “longhand” takes a lot more time and space.

I noticed I’ve been getting some views from India. Hey, India! I’d like to go over there and give some id presentations. If anyone will put me up, as in an old blanket to lie on in the corner on the floor, that would be nice. I could pay with id instruction or perhaps even money. Let me know.