68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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What Is the Picture Game?
The idea is to combine a symbol for the meaning with something that sounds like it, represents a word that sounds like the thing. This happens in Chinese as well but they start off making these very pictorial characters. They're getting very stylized quite quickly. So people take shortcuts just like the dictionary game. It is really clever like the picture game.
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