Recently on Radiolab I learned about Charles Bliss’ idea to achieve world peace by eliminating the use of words. He thought that unambiguous symbols did a better job communicating so he invited a writing system. Interesting! Flawed!
Here are the symbols representing library and librarian.
Previous library related symbols on Walking Paper:
National Park Service Library Symbol
National Library Symbol History & Implications
Thanks for tracking these down. When I heard that episode of Radiolab, I had the exact same idea. I started digging around to see if I could find a dictionary of Blissymbolics but didn’t find anything that seemed worth requesting via ILL. The same week that Radiolab episode came out (or maybe a week after) the New Yorker had a great piece about <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer""various efforts humans have made over the years to invent new languages. The article mentioned Bliss and placed his effort in a larger context that I found fascinating.
Oh great, I went and bolloxed up my HREF tag. Sorry for the sloppy comment. Here’s the URL for that story in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer