At an early presentation I gave someone asked me if I could represent abstract ideas with ids. I replied, “Yes, better than ordinary language can.”


At an early presentation I gave someone asked me if I could represent abstract ideas with ids. I replied, “Yes, better than ordinary language can.”
I show a couple of more ids that belong in the “goal” family, using my time/distance indicator. With “out” and “great” I show how with ids I am more specific and clear about the meanings intended by the words. Being graphic invites and requires you to do that.
The Georgia Guide Stones called for a “living world language”. What I do is certainly living! It is in a sense, and at least has the potential to be, a metalanguage — above and applicable to all languages.
If you can zoom in and see it, the section between the red lines is a transcription of the printed page. Ids are compact!
My ambiguous time/distance indicator works well for “goal” because it can be either in time or space. This is one of those ids that I struggled with for years before I came up with something satisfying. A goal is something in distance or future, sticking up (prominent, erected) and radiating — an attractor.
Examples of my thinking in paraids. (“paraid” — id (ideogram)-related mental representations)
I forgot to include in the below my ids for “direct” and “indirect,” which are very relevant. I was also going to, but didn’t, show my cool id for “distract”, which is also relevant. Oh well, if anyone is interested (unlikely) they can write and ask.
I had a creative session this morning. I love what I do!
At the bottom, new ids for “depleted” and “saturated” that cement them as opposites — mutually supporting binary stars fixed solidly and brightly in my crystalline semantic firmament.
This is just one sense of “hurt”
Another sense of “hurt”: