Do pictograms convey communications faster than alphabet words..?
1) The main goal of modern standard pictograms is to represent an object with a picture which could tell the person that the represented objects are present here, and suggest also some associations which could be interesting. For instance a knife and a fork would suggest a meal possibility such as a restaurant. The big advantage of a pictogram is that it is language insensitive (but not always fully culture insensitive), you wouldn’t even need to know a language to understand it. The disadvantage is that it is not always easy to design a good ideogram and that many of them are still unknown from many people. Because of this, most of the first written languages were based on pictograms. Probably started written language with pictograms. However, we developed some concepts which could not be represented very easily with pictograms: ideas. So we started to use also ideograms. 2) “A pictogram (also spelled pictogramme) or pictograph is a symbol representing a concept, object, activity, pla
G’day Bradley Bell, Thank you for your question. I don’t believe so. Indeed, languages with alphabets make it much easier to print documents and convey your message to thousands of people at one time. Even though printing was invented in China, it really took off when it became known in Europe and used to print the Bible and other books.
