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Surprise Folks! Pictobabble Cards are now Free! So download and print to your heart's content. Enjoy! And please send feedback: Click here to download the original (miniature) Pictobabble Cards (or click here for full size cards) for Printing for personal (non-profit) use only. For other than personal use in families and clubs of various kinds: All Rights of the Copyright Owner (George F Sutton) are reserved. Market Testing is now beginning in some local markets, for probably 2 to 3 years, then a search for a manufacturer of the playing cards may begin. |
| Several years ago, while browsing though books about Egyptian Hieroglyphics, I conceived the idea of creating a language that is both pictographic and phonetic. I ended up with a 48 letter alphabet of basic shapes and a 2000 word vocabulary. A word in the Pictobabble language is a babel of "picture parts" until the reader assembles the parts in his mind. Each letter of a word contributes a sound and part of a simple drawing. Every phoneme is also a morpheme. |
| If you watch the animation of the sailboat on the right, you will notice it cycles from a pictograph that looks like a sailboat, through what must look to you like a strange alphabet. But as you watch the animation, you will see that the letters of that alphabet spell out the elements of the sailboat pictograph. |
Whereas, in reading english, the reader sounds out a word to get the meaning,
in Pictobabble, the reader assembles the "picture-parts"
in his head to decipher the meaning.
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