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![Primal Chat [GPEM]](elements/primal_chat.gif){kind=small}
Summary| Mouse says: click! and
human says: eek! "click" / klik / a short hard sound produced by computer's mouse; on question about animal onomatopoeia: ... and mouse says? ... my friend's daughter, age year and half, replied: Click! "eek" / i:k / expression of sudden fear and surprise: Eek! A mouse! |
background:
In order to communicate humans have developed language as a major means of sharing information or expressing their thoughts and feelings, through sounds, signals, signs or movements. There are about 6000 languages spoken in the world today, but a lot of linguists believe that only half of them will still be spoken by the end of 21 century.
foreground:
Our intention is to create a multi-lingual tool for micro communication based on Graphically and Phonetically Expressive Message (GPEM), i.e. symbols and sounds that are part of common world knowledge and of common linguistic knowledge.
First step was to create Dictionary of Primal Behaviour [
],
a multi-lingual database of symbols (GPEM),
connected to primal human emotions and behaviour. GPEM
results from a combination of verbal and non-verbal codes: Phonetically
Expressive Word (PEW),
Graphically Expressive Symbol (GES)
and Facial Expression (FE).That kind of message is understandable to wide audience despite their cultural background, linguistic knowledge or stylistic features of a language such as dialect, sociolect and chronolect.
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