http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65 Version Zero point Five Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:35:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65&cpage=1#comment-5 I see, and I remember….. « Suifaijohnmak’s Weblog Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:40:49 +0000 http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65#comment-5 [...] Siemens asks “What can visuals do that text can’t?”, and Dave Gray just presented such a visual about text that answers the question. The verbal description of the communication process has to [...] [...] Siemens asks “What can visuals do that text can’t?”, and Dave Gray just presented such a visual about text that answers the question. The verbal description of the communication process has to [...]

]]> http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65&cpage=1#comment-4 Dave Gray Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:38:15 +0000 http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65#comment-4 Yes -- it's amazing how much we are able to communicate with relatively simple signs and symbols. And yet, we often become so attached to words that we forget that they are signs and confuse them with reality. Yes — it’s amazing how much we are able to communicate with relatively simple signs and symbols. And yet, we often become so attached to words that we forget that they are signs and confuse them with reality.

]]> http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65&cpage=1#comment-3 Roger Sperberg Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:40:35 +0000 http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65#comment-3 The lefthand side of the drawing is how I envision Flaubert's famous dictum: "Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” The richness of our thought and emotion have to be conveyed by such indirect mechanisms as language. The lefthand side of the drawing is how I envision Flaubert’s famous dictum: “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” The richness of our thought and emotion have to be conveyed by such indirect mechanisms as language.

]]> http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65&cpage=1#comment-2 x28’s new Blog » Blog Archive » What can visuals do Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:14:51 +0000 http://www.marksandmeaning.com/?p=65#comment-2 [...] asks “What can visuals do that text can’t?”, and Dave Gray just presented such a visual about text that answers the [...] [...] asks “What can visuals do that text can’t?”, and Dave Gray just presented such a visual about text that answers the [...]

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