You’re talking about the way some signs ARE words, but that’s much more like “I ❤️NY!” Than “the crocodile symbol means evil, and the fire symbol is the hell… They’re warning us about an evil from hell!”
Lol, that’s like saying “It’s ABCs not letters”. We’re using different terms that mean the same thing :)
Amazon has a fantastic course on languages that I’ve almost completed and it blew my mind. Just seeing it laid out, how languages evolved over time.
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All borrowed ( swiped? ) from French, as French changed. So we snagged the terms in mid-evolution :)
Did you know Hyrogliphs are sounds, to be read aloud just like the Roman Alphabet?!
I used to pull a random Encyclopedia off the shelf and find something interesting to read about.