The Ideogram or the picture of words

Literally Speaking (October 2003)

By its conception, a word = a picture and, contrary to the phonogram, the ideogram doesn’t lend itself to mass education, to popularization. In this sense, we can imagine it has favored the mandarinate as the centuries go by.

Structurally speaking, language is politics. (Gérard Poquelin)

For fun, let’s create a compound ideogram…( look at pictures)