Coming in future blogs - Emoji and Aui (the Language of Space). New tools for police community relations. Here is your primer to get you started.
aUI - I actually studied with Dr. Weilgart, and did my college senior paper on this language:
Probably the most bizarre artificial "universal" language of recent
times is
aUI (pronounced "a-OO-ee"), the "Language of Space."
aUI,
meaning "space-spirit-sound" or "space-language," and advertised as the
"Pentecostal Logos of Love and Peace," was launched on Planet Earth in
the 1960's by John W. Weilgart, an Austrian-born Iowa psychiatrist who
claimed to have learned the language as a young boy from a little green
elf-like humanoid from outer space. The little green spaceman told
Weilgart that
aUI was the literally universal language used by
intelligent beings on all planets throughout the Cosmos.
aUI,
according to Weilgart, is a perfectly logical and rational language,
and learning
aUI can actually cure a person of irrational
thinking patterns.
In
aUI, each sound of the language--each vowel and each
consonant--is a "basic element" signifying one basic concept, and the
meaning of every word can be analyzed into the "elements" of which it
is built up. Essentially, this means that every letter stands for one
particular basic idea, and always stands for that idea. The
aUI
alphabet and sound-system consists of the short vowels (lower-case)
a,e,i,o,u,y,q, the long vowels (upper-case) A, E,I,O,U, the nasalized
vowels (long and short) a*,e*,i*,o*,u*,y*,A*,E*,I*,O*,U*, Y*, and the
consonants r, L, m, n, w, v, f., h, j, c, s, z, g, k, t, d, p, b. The
long and short vowels aeiouAEIOU are pronounced as in Spanish, Italian,
and German; y is pronounced like German ü in Brücke,
fünf or French u in lutte, duc; Y* corresponds to the German
ü, üh in über, kühl or the French u, û in
pur, mur, dur, Vaucluse, s'amuse, sûr; q has the sound of German
ö or French eu; c is like English sh in ship, shoe, fish; j has
the zh sound of s in pleasure, z in azure; x has the sound of German ch
in Buch, Nacht, machen, sprach, doch; g is always "hard" or velar as in
English go, get; the b,d,f,h,k,L,m,n,p,r,s,t,v,w,z have their usual
English values. The short nasal vowels a*,e*,i*,u*,o* stand for
respectively the numbers 1,2,3,4,5, while the long nasal vowels
A*,E*,I*,U*,O* represent respectively the numbers 6,7,8,9,10; zero is
indicated by Y*, the nasalized version of the sound of Germanü in
über, Führer or French u.in dur, mur, s'amuse, Vaucluse. The
short vowels a,e,i,u,o,y,q stand respectively for "space/place (a),
movement (e), light (i), man/human/person (u), life (o), no/not (y),
Condition(al)/if (q)."
As to Emoji:
Emoji (絵文字?, Japanese pronunciation: [emodʑi]) are the ideograms or smileys used in Japanese electronic messages and Web pages, the use of which is spreading outside Japan. Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji literally means "picture" (e) + "character" (moji). The characters are used much like ASCII emoticons or kaomoji,
but a wider range is provided, and the icons are standardized and built
into the handsets. Some emoji are very specific to Japanese culture,
such as a bowing businessman, a face wearing a face mask, a white flower used to denote "brilliant homework," or a group of emoji representing popular foods: ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese curry, and sushi.
Hmmm... make sentences out of pictures
Face with Stuck-Out Tongue and Winking Eye
Cara sacando la lengua y guiñando
• kidding, not serious
More later.