Author Archives: ErnieM
REDUNDANCY
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.”
point, objective, out, great
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 … Continue reading
July 9, 2022 Scribblings
If you can zoom in and see it, the section between the red lines is a transcription of the printed page. Ids are compact!
GOAL
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 … Continue reading
“Not A to B,” Number vs. Size
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 … Continue reading
4/27/22
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.
hurt, within
This is just one sense of “hurt” Another sense of “hurt”:
Neo Ideograms 