Helmut
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* 100% of any language, be it natural or constructed (pictorial, maths, coding) is historical. Of course, living languages are permanently "updated" by users thereof.
* I suspect that hunting for the mentioned Chüchichäschtli in the tribal homelands of Ceasar´s Helvetii would mostly find current IKEA replicas.
* The same applies to the Hamburgian Hanseatic Hummel, Hummel - Morse, Morse which is mildly vulgar though many Hanseatic speakers may not even know it.
* I am aware that we are discussing pictorial symbols here and not the finer linguistic points of the Wulfila Bible, Arthurian Legends, Beowulf or Willy, the Bard.
* In language consistency is important, otherwise it ceases to be a tool for communication. I have some doubts that some of us can still effectively communicate, largely due to the idiolects deployed by previous / subsequent generations, social strata, politicians and the "simple" jargon used by specialists.
* I suspect that hunting for the mentioned Chüchichäschtli in the tribal homelands of Ceasar´s Helvetii would mostly find current IKEA replicas.
* The same applies to the Hamburgian Hanseatic Hummel, Hummel - Morse, Morse which is mildly vulgar though many Hanseatic speakers may not even know it.
* I am aware that we are discussing pictorial symbols here and not the finer linguistic points of the Wulfila Bible, Arthurian Legends, Beowulf or Willy, the Bard.
* In language consistency is important, otherwise it ceases to be a tool for communication. I have some doubts that some of us can still effectively communicate, largely due to the idiolects deployed by previous / subsequent generations, social strata, politicians and the "simple" jargon used by specialists.