Xref: utzoo comp.edu:2470 comp.cog-eng:1324 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!blackbird!efrethei From: efrethei@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Erik J. Fretheim) Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: Re^2: What to know & universal icons Message-ID: <1326@blackbird.afit.af.mil> Date: 4 Sep 89 23:47:23 GMT References: <768@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> <3490@rtech.rtech.com> <1316@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <56868@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1989Sep3.055622.28387@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <444@uwslh.UUCP> Reply-To: efrethei@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Erik J. Fretheim) Distribution: na Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH Lines: 8 Since Chinese and Japanese have been quashed as the computer ideogramatic language of choice why not drift back several thousand years to the mid-east. There were a couple of languages there which might be of service, and being dead languages they won't have the disadvantage of changing just as you get to know them. -- erik