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New iConji Language For the Symbol-Minded Texter

Posted by timothy on from the dissimilar-to-not-from dept.

billdar writes "As texting evolves into its own language, a Northern Colorado Business Review article covers an ambitious project to develop a new symbol-based language called iConji for mobile texting and online chatting. 'iConji is a set of user-created 32x32-pixel symbols that represent words or ideas, not dissimilar from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics or American Sign Language.' There is an instructional video for the iPhone app and it is also integrated into Facebook." Behind this project is Kai Staats, formerly CEO of Terra Soft Solutions, the original developer of Yellow Dog Linux.

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  1. Re:There's this cool thing about letters by drewhk · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are so uncool

  2. Re:3000BC called... by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Chinese, Japanese anyone?

    Yes, I'll have the dim sum with a side of sashimi, thank you.

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  3. Re:"It's that simple" by heson · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got a dejavu of the macbook wheel vid: http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no,14299/

  4. Re:What a portmanteau.. by sakdoctor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where is the iconji for malamanteau?

  5. Re:3000BC called... by OrangeCatholic · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a fault of the form. Poetry is lyrics without the music. Just like comic books are movies without actual movement.

  6. Re:3000BC called... by autophile · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because Egyptian hieroglyphics actually meant something to the Egyptian people.

    I know, right? Just the other day I was telling my Egyptologist friend: "Eagle snake foot pharoah-on-a-throne-holding-out-his-hand, wheat!", and he laughed and said, "Eye cat eagle ibis... eye-of-Ra!" It was a riot!

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