Symbols

[Clifford Black]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton

@ Adisa---Start here/Teach yourself about symbols and what meanings are to be found.

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[Clifford Black]

Learn everything that you can uncover about this most important subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol

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[Adisa]

Namaska, I WILL do the WORK!  Thank you for pointing the direction.

[Adisa]

Kanji symbol for Earth

Kanji (漢字; Japanese pronunciation: [kandʑi]  listen), or kan'ji, are the adopted logographic Chinese characters (hànzì)^[1] that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana. The Japaneseterm kanji for the Chinese characters literally means "Han characters"^[2] and is written using the same characters as the Chinese word hànzì (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字).^[3]

[Adisa]

Interesting I did not see it yesterday, but after reading it in a dictionary I have learned that the Japanese adopted these characters from the Chinese.  

[Clifford Black]

YOU are learning "FOR REAL", Bro. Adisa--Namaska

[Adisa]

Kan = Chinese + ji = ideography

Ideography a written symbolic symbol which represents something in the nonsymbolic world directly instead of standing for a sound of a word in the language of its users.  

ideo-:  Greek meaning idea and -graphy from Greek, graphos, meaning something written or drawn.

[Clifford Black]

The opposite of symbol is diabol(ical)

[Adisa]

Symbol:  from the Greek Symbolon meaning token, watchword, literally that which is thrown or cast together.  Taken from Syn (Sym), meaning.together + bole meaning a throwing or casting. 

Diabol:  from the Greek diablos meaning the devil.  Greek Di meaning two, double from Greek Dyo (two) + bole meaning a throwing or casting.  

 

[Clifford Black]

I would bet, that if you were to look at the word for ball in Spanish, Ball is the same as bol is the same as bowl and we are talking about something that is round, like a circle. The complete circle is 360 degrees and the dia-bol is 180 degrees (it, the circle has been cut in half  whereas the whole is the symbol).

Soccer---

El fútbol

[Jay Anderson]

Very interesting! Thanks for posting Doc! Yeah there is a popular word used for ball in Spanish, "pelota" but there is the word "bola" as well, which means "sphere" or "ball." There also is the word "bala" which is a metal projectile like a cannonball. Of course like you pointed out with "fútbol," there are words like "béisbol" which of course means baseball but I'm not sure if the last two are loan words from English or not.

[Adisa]

Namaska Dr. B, this morning I had some sort of dream or my mind was working to really comprehend seeing language as you have.  I kept going over and over symbol and diabol looking for the steps to grasp it.  After looking at the meaning of devil, I found the clue that gives me clarity regarding what you were pointing to: 

Devil, Old English deofol "evil spirit, a devil, the devil, false god, diabolical person," from L.L. diabolus (also the source of It. diavolo, Fr. diable, Sp. diablo; Ger. Teufel is O.H.G. tiufal, from Latin via Goth. diabaulus), from Ecclesiastical Gk. diabolos, in Jewish and Christian use, "Devil, Satan" (scriptural loan-translation of Heb. satan), in general use "accuser, slanderer," from diaballein "to slander, attack," lit. "throw across," from dia- "across, through" + ballein "to throw".

 

[Clifford Black]

di is the same as dy and deals with the cutting and is applicable to how one performs analysis.

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