28-09-2016, 01:43 PM
I've been wanting to ask the linguists this question for some time, but it always seems to come out as a criticism or challenge.
All I can say is that it's a genuine question from someone who dropped Linguistics 101 after six months.
Are statistical analyses and linguistic analyses able to isolate non-word uses for glyphs?
If you have - for argument's sake - something like [glyph meaning 'city'] + [City name, abbreviated]+ [number]+['degrees' sign/letter] [N, S, W or E]..
would a linguist be able to determine which of the glyphs was being used as a number.. or as probably a number.. and which were abbreviations and so on?
Second question: If he script is filled with numbers, abbreviations and so on, how does the statistical analysis serve a useful purpose.. again, it's a genuine question.
All I can say is that it's a genuine question from someone who dropped Linguistics 101 after six months.
Are statistical analyses and linguistic analyses able to isolate non-word uses for glyphs?
If you have - for argument's sake - something like [glyph meaning 'city'] + [City name, abbreviated]+ [number]+['degrees' sign/letter] [N, S, W or E]..
would a linguist be able to determine which of the glyphs was being used as a number.. or as probably a number.. and which were abbreviations and so on?
Second question: If he script is filled with numbers, abbreviations and so on, how does the statistical analysis serve a useful purpose.. again, it's a genuine question.