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Semasiography

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Semasiography (fae Greek: σημασία (semasia) "signification, meaning" an Greek: γραφία (graphia) "scrievin") is "scrievin wi signs", a non-phonetic based technique to "communicate information without the necessary intercession of forms of speech." It means scrieve'd symbols an leids that are nae based on spoken wirds. It is alder than tha advent of leid-based scrievin seestems[1] an is used the day in computer icons, muisical notation, emoji, Blissymbols[2] an mathematical notation. It is studied in the branch semasiology o lingueestics.

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  2. Blissymbols