Beginning with Private Usage

1) Let EL assist you:
Using EL phonetics and ideograms, For comparative cultures/linguistics, Usage of the EL multi-method
2) Playing with EL:
The first symbols in life, Icons and marks, Game to send word without audio-visual, Play with imagination/riddles
3) Creation with EL:
For designing around your space, For new arts, Tool for inspiration

Now and Then
Additional Method--Universal Era in EL

You Start!

It might take two generations at least before any technical terms can be sent in EL.
But, as I mentioned in "What is EL,"
the process itself of developing EL works for bringing up hope and stability in the global society.

The EL system can newly stimulate your senses and thoughts linking to the future.
Wouldn’t you like to share the excitement to open the first page of the new global world with EL?
You try to use EL for yourself and share some symbols with your friends and family:
this is the first easy but important step of popularizing EL.

Beginning with Private Usage

Please try to use some EL symbols together with your ordinary writings.
EL symbols works for private convenience, helping arrangement of information or to look for a new creation.
Below are samples of EL usage, which you can already use now.
You are very welcome to get them from wherever you like.

1) Let EL assist you

Phonetics:

The EL phonetic basic system has been mostly completed. It has received good reviews from schoolteachers, as more easily understandable than the International Phonetic Alphabet, and convenient to explain pronunciations of a foreign language.
Use it for learning/teaching pronunciations or recording dialects, and please share with us if you find any more devices.

Ideograms:

EL can show many basic meanings as a single and simple symbol, and you can memorize them easily.

It would be convenient for you to use some EL ideograms related to your daily life, selecting them among the dictionary . They stand out among ordinary writings in your notebook, diary etc.

Maybe you put the (eye) mark where you need to find later.
The ideograms (fine weather), (cloudy) and (rain) simplify your weather record;
(numerals), (sequence), (frequency), (sum total) and (differential) are also much simpler and easy to see than the alphabets. There are many more similarly useful ideograms at #33 in the dictionary.

When you want to keep some contents secret in your writing, you can make your own secret notations for them using the EL phonetic abbreviation system, or the system for definition having some clues to remember.
Start to use a few EL ideograms, and you would like to use more and more naturally together in your native handwritings, because it’s fun and useful.

Standard for comparative cultures/linguistics:

Use commonly defined EL basic ideograms, as the standards of an image measurement,
to compare the width of definitions of words in languages.
When you see closely with the rational measurement,
you can find a lot of different understandings by cultures even in a simple word.
Knowing the differences, you can understand others deeper.

e.g. The EL ideogram shapes the human nose (with the eyebrows),
Let’s scientifically define , as the animal organ to breathe: the holes and around them.  Then it doesn’t mind the shape.  So the trunk of an elephant is also , but not (tree trunk) as English distinguishes it.  Turkish [nose]: ‘burun’ and Russian’s ‘HOC’ include ‘beaks’ in the meaning. Beaks are usually close to but different things; so in EL, beaks are shown by (as the combination of hard-mouth).

While discussing setting up EL definitions, you learn how traditions are different among cultures.

The EL multi-method like hand-signs:

You sometimes want to communicate quickly with someone without bothering the conversations with his visitor, don’t you? At such times, if you and he have some knowledge about the basic EL, showing “I’d like to ask you something”, “I have a question” or “I’m going out” by hand-signs is very easy; of course “I love you”, too.  It must be fun sometimes to communicate with your family or office members by signs. Don’t you think so?

If you have some listening disability person in your family, please take the EL signs a lot. Understanding things in EL would be much easier than in alphabetic languages especially for them; also they must have good senses for EL. Use EL with them and if you find any problems/ideas, please let me know. Let’s devise the parts together.

2) Playing with EL

The first symbols in life:

When you try to teach English to an infant, pronouncing ‘tree’ each time pointing to a pine tree, a maple tree and an oak, s/he might be confused because s/he can’t understand the sound has the meaning at first.

If you show a picture like the left one and the EL ideogram (tree), and then pronounce ‘tree’, it can help the infant to understand that the shape and the sound both symbolize the thing in the picture.

Use pictures and the EL picture-like ideograms to teach your language to your little children. This custom would also raise children’s ability to distinguish details of various shapes quickly.

While parents play EL symbols with their little children, they also memorize the symbols.
Here is a play corner with some sample sets of pictures and the ideograms. Guess what the symbol means, before clicking to see the picture. In case you can’t know the meaning even if seeing the picture, check out The EL Dictionary through the bases forming the ideogram.
You must have fun one after another.

The children worldwide, who have mastered their mother language in the help of EL, and the adults, who helped them, have naturally become available to communicate with each other at least a little with EL symbols beyond native languages.

Icons and marks:

EL already has many simple and single ideograms; and some of them can be convenient icons for computing and games. Also you can create symbols/icons as much as you need later, rationally compounding basic meanings or forming a symbolizing shape.

e.g. Here, in the bottom of #30 in the dictionary, you see various ideograms related to indications in computer monitor. You are welcome to use them coloring whatever you like for icons in your HP. Or you might like to create new games for enjoying advances decoding symbols. Please don’t forget linking to the EL site, when you use the EL notations in your web site.

When many people find that useful, the big makers must follow the rational icon way; and the icons will be applied for common signs as well.

The EL typing tool has been almost made, except one problem I heard about. When the tool: including the EL true font and the program to type plural bases laying on top of each other, will be done, you can download it from the EL homepage.

Now it’s not ready yet, but if you would like, let me know. I’ll send you the EL zip file including the manual of the EL system, the dictionary and all gif-files of bases and compounded notations made by now.

Game to send word without audio-visual:

For children today, who seem to have less tactile contact, how about this game?
It’s played among a group who knew some basic EL idioms,
or instantly learning several of them.

There are a judge and teams.
The judge whispers a simple word to the first player of each team,
and they send the word all through the team members one by one. But they can’t speak; also with blindfold to receive the word.
Impossible? No, EL can make it possible by the multi-method.
Making the signs for the word letting the next player touch and read them carefully is the way.
After reading, the player unties the blindfold, and ties it to the next person to send the signs.
When all finished, the last members of teams announce the word that they read through touching.
If you are not careful and mistake the way to compound signs,
the meaning can be very strange. So unexpected fun could happen in this game.

Children experience this and their bodies would feel sympathy to blind and deaf people.
They now know that there is a way to communicate with them.

Play with imagination/riddles:

It is enjoyable to write/draw a mental image or a scene using EL pictographs/ideograms.
Please try some creations in your diary or post cards to your friends,
referring to the experimental corner with short poems/haiku] in this web site.
My translation is not so sophisticated yet, though.
I’m looking forward to seeing challengers to make more visually interesting poems.
Please share with us, when you have made one.

“What is this symbolizing?”
Perhaps children are good on this kind of riddle. Imagine what,
compounding or arranging various bases alone.
Play that with friends guessing what others imagined.

Playing like this, cultivate your friendship and bond of family with EL.
Develop riddles and games with them.
EL is an unlimitedly interesting tool for the purpose.

3) Creation with EL

For designing around your space:

Series of geometrical patterns have been used for ornamentation worldwide.
When you use EL symbol/s for a unit pattern, it has a strong message in the space.
In tiles to suit the function of a building or interior, in fashionable textiles to suit TPO,
in humorous neckties, you can add vast ability of your sense.

At earlier time of EL, others think that your design is just geometrical;
after spreading EL, they read the message you intended, and laugh or are impressed.
Don’t you want to make that kind of joyful trick around you?

For new arts:

I read that personal voice can be quite changed by practice.
Many people including me might not know more ability of each voice.

Wouldn’t you like to cultivate your new voices and pronunciations,
testing many vocal organs in various ways, using EL basic phonetics?
I suggest doing it with abdominal breathing.
You may find a new vocal performance.
In that case, try to record the way in EL phonetics, so others can learn it too.

EL signs/body-language might newly develop you as well, used meditatively,
uniting your heart and body into the image of your sign.
e.g. I made some EL exercise combining EL signs with Tai-Chi methods.
It seems good for health; and also you can find some secrets in your body while continuing it daily.

Taking EL signs and gestures in a quicker movement of dances must be nice, too.
Especially improvising an EL group dance communicating with meanings would be enjoyable.

Tool for inspiration:

A new inspiration often comes as a new combination of known elements.

Draw an EL basis on transparent cards, and pile some cards randomly on top of each other,
so you might get an inspiration by the unexpected combination of meanings or the shape.
(See the dictionary for each meaning)
It might be the answer you’ve sought, or a hint for a solution of your problem.
When you come to a deadlock, it might widen your imagination.
Because of the EL nature to unite shapes, it works strongly.

You also can arrange EL symbols for mandalas, various auguries and games.

Now and Then

Languages, especially common languages have been related to politics.
Then I: the founder of EL have often been thought of as a politically ambitious person
through this web site. Even some European readers suggested me being careful
not to be assassinated, because EL looked possible for realization against today’s political wind.
I was innocent about political matters, and got shocked learning
how importantly Europeans had thought about languages in their history.

  As I mentioned in "What is EL", developing  the EL plan can make the world
steer toward global harmony, I believe.
But it’s because of the system of EL and nothing related to my ambition or anything of that bind.
Actually I don’t know how to organize people, since being a lone wolf for a long time.
I know many people like the EL idea though.
The domain name was donated as earthlanguage.org expecting the organization someday.
But now the ‘org’ means just ‘organic’ to me.
If you are interested in organizing an EL circle, I’d be happy.

While thinking about EL, the system itself has told me various things,
including the popularization way.
According to that, EL shouldn’t be forced from above.
Although past common languages were spread by politics and organized power,
and technical/economical power and politics are behind English spread.

“Fun, enjoyable, interesting!” such individual impressions on using EL influence others,
and one day they realize that they can communicate widely with many common symbols and signs.
That must be the ideal way of EL popularization.

Until now: November 2003, I’ve sent the EL system zip file to interested people
in about 15 countries per their request; they are in fields of linguistic, phonetic,
graphic design, music, mathematics, physics, computer technology and a disability society, etc.
I hope they are enjoying using it for each purpose.

Volunteer:
When various EL groups and individuals get a discussion circle through the Internet,
the dictionary and the systems would be checked from many angles and progress faster.
But I’ve not had leeway for that yet, maintaining this site.

If you feel dull in your daily life, wont you change it with EL?
Learning the EL system ten minutes a day, perhaps two months later, you can use El pretty much.
And you would get your new aspect by EL through the compounding system.

Then, if you would like to start hosting a discussion circle for EL, it would be great.
Maybe you might want to start a business relating to EL like toys, games, publishing etc.
Or you may think to open an EL class for deaf people to developing EL more with them together.
Some of you can have greater ideas than my thought.
Let me know and share with others, and let’s cooperate for our dream.
For the EL world, I founded and started EL earlier,
but am one of the volunteers as well as others.

The volunteer circle: gathering of individual wills must be the main power of the EL society,
even in the realized future.

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 Individuals >>                            <<  Educational Organizations
Use    << Maintaining the text and dictionary  >>  Science, Medical Organizations
Play       >>  Applications, Collecting Data   <<  Local and Global
Sharing     << EL Products and Businesses >>  Politics
Communication  >> Volunteer Circles <<  Medias

Additional Method--Universal Era in EL

EL does not use a cultural standard, for the standard of time as well.
The Christian calendar can’t naturally be common;
also it has neither the year 0 and the year - 0 nor the 0th century and the - 0th century,
starting from the first. So it doesn’t match to the modern mathematical calculation.
I propose to found "0" year for the standard of the Earth People's era in EL,
and it would be the year 2000 in the Christian calendar as the early stage of the global society.

In a traditional world, they can’t change this kind of standard easily,
but it’s possible in a new language; of course this standard is only in EL.
Every language continues to use each traditional standard of time as they like.

The benefits of this idea are;
# No cultural conflicts
# Bringing the people's consciousness up to the global society and the environment
# Easy for calculation to look back in the past
# EL Users feel refreshed, commonly standing at the starting point of the new era all together.