Facebook Earth Language Archive Part 2 Using the middle size circle
English Home,
Japanese Home
1[human, plant, heart, life]
2[the middle circle variation]
3[Relating to friends' opinions,
Between cultures, etc.]
4[phonetics]
Basic Idea (10) Something
Important
A certain smaller circle
at the center of the EL font frame.
It's simple and strongly shows its existence,
looking like something precious and important.
Since it's small, this base itself is only used
for a grammatical mark for nominative,
when the subject is not at the head of a sentence.
(Yes, EL has its grammar,
and can express a complex message.)
In a bases overlay, this base works
to form a pronoun with another symbol,
or relating to something 'substantial as the main thing'
or 'importance/value'
EL usually has two types of hand signs for each base.
One is a base shaped hand sign; another is drawing the shape
of a base in the air with the other hand shaped sign,
or a hand position sign.
Since this base is small, having an 'important' image,
this is shown by hand position sign located
"in front of the chest."
Pronouns are shown with the combination of
"pronoun base" (refer to Basic Idea 10)
+ a direction base,
such as "back, front, in, out, down, up and just a dot/point.
An EL symbol is an ideogram,
unless informed as a phonetic usage.
So a concept symbol shape doesn't change by
subjective, possessive or
objective cases like English.
The cases are distinguished by their position
or a preposition mark.
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Basic Idea (12) EL Hand Signs for Pronouns
Why were pronouns (11) set with direction bases?
Because the signs of them become commonly natural and understandable by that
way:
"me": pointing at one's chest with the thumb
"you": pointing forward with the thumb in front of one's chest
"she": pointing inward (toward the body center) with the thumb in front of one's
chest
"he": pointing outward with the thumb in front of one's chest
"this" (talking about a close thing): pointing down with the thumb in front of
one's chest
"that" (talking about a far thing): pointing up with the thumb in front of one's
chest
"it" (talking about a thing in a topic): pointing in front with the index finger
in front of one's chest
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Basic Idea (13) Plural Pronouns
Just overlay the plural mark to a single pronoun symbol.
The plural mark looks like doubled edges
at the right above corner.
Basic Idea (14) Singular or Plural form in EL
EL distinguishes
singular or plural only for a really necessity.
A general noun is shown by an ideogram without an article;
also without minding if itfs singular or plural.
To specify the amount, a modification is added.
To show a plural noun, overlay the plural mark
on top of the symbol.
Also when specified how many, you need not
duplicate adding the plural mark on the noun symbol.
Also visually showing plural things as
a simplified picture is available too.
This way encourages visual thinking.
Basic Idea (15) Value
This smaller circle is often used to make ideograms for abstract concepts
related to some importance/precious/main.
Basic Idea (16) Good and Bad
"Good" and "bad" depend on subjective feelings.
When forgetting that, sometimes a war starts.
Basic Idea (17) Economy
I still sometimes like barter trading instead of just buying with money.
Probably because I feel more "heart moving for the value."
Basic Idea (18) Hyphen in EL
You might feel (17)-symbols are too complicated, since you are not familiar with
EL fonts yet.
In that case or showing it in its hand sign or vocal sign, you can
write the elements of the symbol
divided into parts, connecting them with
hyphen/hyphens.
The connecting sequence would be easier to let others imagine the meaning
by
putting the base/bases of the main part of the concept first and the
modification part later.
Although when plural symbols are next to each other
without hyphens or any prepositions,
the front symbol modifies the following one
in an EL sentence.
The EL grammar is basically set as sequence free for
convenience from all parts of the globe,
also because in many cases
modifications are more important than nouns in an expression.
Basic Idea (19) the smaller circle to make picture-like-symbols
The smaller circle works well to make simplified pictures too,
still keeping its
basic meaning or function.
# The symbol of "brain" looks like the important part under the skull.
# Everyone can get the eye-symbol without explanation, I guess.
# "Head" also look like a head.
# "Member": doesn't it look like a human with an important head.
Any members
shouldn't forget that each of them has own head/brain.
Each of these picture-like
symbols works as a base to create more symbols
with another base or more,
relating to its meaning.
Basic Idea (20) Verbs with the Eye-symbol
In EL, a symbol usually shows a thing or some condition; and no single symbol
for a verb.
But you can see which is a verb in an EL sentence very easily,
because an EL verb is shown by a verb mark.
When a body part symbol is with a
verb mark, it is a verb,
meaning that the part of the subject of the sentence
works,
or makes the part of the object of the sentence work, depending on the
verb mark type.
Also these verb marks can be systematically changed for a tense,
passive case and more details for a verb condition, compounding an extra symbol
on top.
The English words "see", "look" and "show" are all for eye-related actions;
but
in their sounds and spellings, there are no relation at all.
If you use this EL
rule, you can read many EL symbols without any effort for memorizing
Basic Idea (21) Symbols of various objects/body-parts related to "Eye(s)"
Eye-parts or eye-related stuffs can be expressed with a symbol using the
eye-symbol,
unless it's too complicated. You can separate the connecting
elements with a hyphen too.
Basic Idea (22) Actions with Eyes
Of course you can express each of these symbols into separate two symbols
as
eye-(hyphen) the additional base. Also you make a verb, putting a verb mark
in
front of each symbol. (Refer to the Basic Idea 20)
Healing (4) for Eyes with an eye-action symbol
Blinking is important for moistening eyes with tears to protect from drying;
also relieving tension around the eyes. Yes, blinking is the natural eye-healing
system,
but computer users often forget it for a long time, and get dry-eyed.
In nature, humans are supposed to blink at
intervals of 2-3 seconds, scholars say.
To bring back your blinking custom to
normal, why don't you use this symbol,
imagining it on each of your temples
sometimes throughout the day
as the symbol that prompts your eyes to automate
frequent blinking?
A tip: Blink gently. When closing the eyes, eyeballs turn upward.
So strong
blinking custom for years might bring looseness of cornea.
Basic Idea (23) Brain-symbol and the verbs with it
The brain symbol is shown by the simplified picture as
{an important thing under the scull}.
When it's used as a normal verb, it means "the brain (of the subject of this
sentence) works";
and the brain mainly means "the frontal lobe" in this case:
logically think, calculate;
*To represent a thought with a feeling/emotion in the base, "the heart symbol"
is used.
Basic Idea (24) Brain-related symbols
Don't you think some of them might be useful in your hand note?
Basic Idea (25) Head-related symbols
This head symbol looks like an important part on the shoulder between both
arms.
When working as a normal verb with the verb mark, it represents "lead."
So the
overlays include "head" is used for the terms related to "the head" or
"leading/a leader.