ext_213748 ([identity profile] smokedamage.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] trickykitty 2005-05-03 03:36 am (UTC)

correct about the chinese thing.

consider this

preboulpy

changing the orientation of the letters in this case rotating them 180 clockwise has changed the word to where it is unrecognisable.

We recognise words as shapes as well as the sequence of letters. Even though the shapes are arbitrary we have come to recognise them as having meaning. STOP. GO. WALK. CD-ROM. without even recognising these words we recognise them iconically.

Order of the words will effect changes in the meaning of the sentence since english is heavily reliant of word-order unlike a lot of other languages.

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