Guess What?




Click a symbol and you'll see the illustration. Then you click , and come back here.

Putting a fifth wheel to the coach:
You might think that you've never seen a flower like this or it's a strange bird, but anyway you imagine a flower or a bird by clicking two of these symbols.(I hope) Everybody knows flowers include many kinds and each person imagenes a different shape for a flower. But perhaps you can share the simplified symbol for flower with others without dificult ideological description. That is what a visual symbol is like. The users instinctively agree some width for a meaning of each symbol, expecting some differences between their imaginations.

This is an important premise for protecting ideological conflicts among many cultures, since each culture has the own ideological bases for understanding. For more specifying a symbol in a communication, limitations are added with other characters.


EL Home(English) . 「地球語ホーム」
Illustrated by Yoshiko. Please contact with her when you use some of these illustrations.