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Typography + Science = Scientography
There are numerous "new" phenomena that weren't around when most of the commonly accepted graphic symbols used in the scientific community were generated and accepted, many of which are based on Greek letters. (pi being the most obvious example)
We now have
black holes; gravitons; gluons; parsecs; dark matter - the list is long, and applies to all disciplines.
What is clearly needed is the creation of a series of new universally agreed graphically orientated symbols, under the collective name of Scientography. These would be organised like typefaces with accepted standards and conventions for size, spacing, upper and lower case versions. The next stage would be the generation of digital font sets to enable the new symbols to be inserted in sentence construction.
Semasiography
https://en.wikipedi.../wiki/Semasiography
The quality of a language that it only exists in writing and has no spoken form [notexactly, Apr 15 2018]
Scientific Symbols
Prior art that just happened to have its most recent activity just over exactly ten years ago [notexactly, Apr 16 2018]
Submit new unicode symbols
http://unicode.org/pending/proposals.html
Make up some new symbols, publish them in a journal, and get them into unicode! [beanangel, Apr 16 2018]
White-o-glyphics
http://users.erols....e28/hiero/index.htm
The purpose of this language is to study symbolism, metaphor and etymology, and to draw little pictures. I'm just trying to see how far I can go using only pre- established symbols, without inventing signs out of whole cloth. I don't expect anyone to actually use it. [eritain, Apr 19 2018]
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Meaning? I'm surprised that you see no meaning in
maths. You may not understand the symbols, but
that does not remove their meaning, only your
comprehension of that meaning. You could apply
the same logic to musical notation and see where
it takes you. i.e. like all languages, it's an
abstraction with a set of rules that fit together and
make sense when applied in certain circumstances. |
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I'm very relieved that this is not a combination of graphology with
scientology. |
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Meanwhile, [Ian], you might like to try reading some translations
of Ancient Greek maths. If the bits of it I remember from Plato
are anything to go by, it was all done with words, not symbols. |
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So, [Ian], what symbols would you use to allow the
concept of "equals" to be expressed both concisely and in
such a way that no prior knowledge is needed? |
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I think maths actually does rather well. Compare its
symbology to that of music, which is just so perverse that
all kinds of extra arcane squiggles have to be added to
express things like "that note that's just above C, only the
one at the top end, and not actually C as such but the
one between C and the next D that we don't have a name
for, and by the way it should be quite long and fairly
loud." |
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So what Ian is saying is that they should have done
common core math a long time ago. |
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The poo emoji should be reserved for the imaginary
unit. |
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Don't make new fonts. Just add the new characters to
Unicode. |
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// maths […] none of it can be pronounced. // |
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Math is semi-semasiographic: [link] |
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Make up some new symbols, publish them in a journal, and get them into unicode! |
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Create new symbols at the unicode consortium at [link] |
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quantum entangled particles: double smiley face
alternate usage: almost guaranteed. |
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