“Languages can package knowledge in radically different ways, thus facilitating different ways of conceptualizing, naming, and discussing the world.” Elsewhere he calls languages “packaged information.” In systems of kinship terms, for instance, which vary dramatically among different cultures, each one is “the result is a highly compact, highly efficient system of knowledge that packs multiple bits of information into small spaces.”In other words, languages are design objects. And I thought: no one loves extinct or endangered design objects more than designers do.
Light Cue 23
Notes from the Drafting Table
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