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Charles Bliss (1897-1985) was born Karl Blitz in Austro-Hungria. Experiences of linguistic rivalry, the Second World War (including a spell in Dachau concentration camp) and travel in the Far East convinced him of the need for an internationally comprehensible system of symbols which could be used universally and would lead to a reduction in tension […]

In 1936, Otto Neurath published International Picture Language – The First Rules of ISOTYPE (Neurath, 1936). Seeing visual communication as the way towards international understanding, Neurath developed a pictorial symbolic system, working with the artist Gerd Arntz, who produced over 4000 symbols. Neurath styled his auxiliary picture language ISOTYPE – International System of Typographic Picture […]

John Wilkins’ aim was ‘to provide a means of communication in which every written or spoken symbol was isomorphic with the categories of reality (as perceived by the mind) which were represented directly and without the medium of a natural language’ (Salmon, 1988, p. 99). To this end, Wilkins drew up a vast taxonomy of […]

The bilingual marginal gloss was extensively used by Nott and Trickey (1971, 1976, rev. ed.) in a course book ‘designed to meet the requirements of both the traditional “A” level language syllabuses and the new approaches now being adopted by some examining boards’ (1976, p. v). Each gloss was given at the end of the […]

Everyone knows Omega, the most favorable watch-making brand of women. Among so many watch categories, Tag Heuer Grand Carrera Watch is its pride. This kind of legendary chronograph has an abundant experience in explorations which include every assignment of NASA since 1963. The historical status of Tag Heuer Grand Carrera was formed when Buzz Aldrin […]