Facebook Earth Language Archive Part 2 Using the middle size circle

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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."

Basic Idea (11) Single Pronouns

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.

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