Blissymbols

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Bliss symbols are developed by Charles K. Bliss in its basic features in the 1940s Pasigrafie, a collection of pictographic and ideographic characters. Each character represents a word, and several symbols can be combined to form sentences or express ideas.

Charles Bliss was inspired by Chinese characters that allow speakers of different languages ​​to communicate with each other. Over a period of 40 years, he designed to be consistent logically structured communication system a special font to support the mutual international understanding and comprehension. This graphic medium should contribute to better cooperation and understanding on an international level between people of different linguistic backgrounds. This intention to contribute to understanding between cultures, has not been fulfilled.

However, the Bliss symbol system received its meaning in an entirely different field of communication and thus became known worldwide. It is one of the first systems that have been used as an aid in the context of special education method Supported communication for people who can not or only to a very limited communicate via spoken language with others as a result of motor or cognitive -related speech disorders.

Since its first use in 1971 in the Ontario Crippled Children's Centre (Toronto, Canada ) Bliss symbols appear as a way of graphical representation of communication content on various types of communication boards. Also, computer programs and programs for speech output devices are based on the Bliss symbol system.

The symbols are defined in the standard BCI (BCI = Blissymbolic Communication International ), and from nearly 120 basic symbols ("key symbols" ) established. A total of nearly 4500 symbols are used. For communication Bliss is used with the help of symbol tables. The user communicates by on Blissymbols he shows in sequence ( for example, by electronic selection). The communication partner reads the meanings of the symbols, which are also in alphabetic writing. More recently, a pilot project to use the Bliss was launched on the Internet in Canada. Bliss texts can now be sent as electronic mail.

Examples

Example sentence

With an example of the operation of the Blissymbols to be illustrated herein.

Locomotion

From the sign of wheel other characters derived from this, such as: