In Keeping with the Small Vocabulary That Is Being Introduced in This Course, You Will
Lesson 6
Nouns
In keeping with the small vocabulary that is being introduced in this course, you will only be introduced to about 30 nouns other than the Bliss-words for body parts and people you have already learned. You will learn in Lesson 8 a strategy that will enable you to expand the number of nouns that you can access. Many of the nouns that will be made available to you for your display will be superordinate nouns (general terms) such as bird, animal, flower, place. You will need to rely on your adjectives to describe the noun in order to arrive at specific birds, animals flowers, places, etc.. Many specific terms (subordinates such as eagle, owl, or dog, cat) are contained in the BCI Authorized Vocabulary. However, in a small display general terms can be much more useful, especially when used with strategies and descriptors.
The non-people nouns available to you for your display are listed below in alphabetical order. Those that have already been introduced are shown with an asterisk*.
animal, bird, Blissymbol, brain*, car, cause, clock, computer, container, drink*, ear*, earth, effect, eye*, feeling*, fire, flower, food*, house, language, machine, moon, mouth*, part, pencil, place, purpose, sky, sun, thing, tree, water, world.
The above nouns will be presented below in groups in order to show relationships between items within some categories. When they are pictographic representations, no explanation will be given.
Nature and ‘Bliss’:
animal bird fish
Blissymbol sky earth world pencil
(writing for the world)
fire water sun moon
flower tree food drink grass
Things
car boat airplane house/building machine
(sun + wheel: the
sun provides the
energy that drives
the wheels of
machinery)
part place thing activity
small size of (earth + pointer:
division place on the earth)
thing: suggests two dimensional outline of a crystal
activity: the action, half-sized.
Clock computer container
(machine + think)
The next nouns to be introduced are more abstract.
Each will be explained – cause, effect, purpose, language, communication
Cause effect purpose language communication
Science religion
cause and effect: The wedge shape incorporates relation.(See Lesson 7). The wedge presses into the thing on which it has an effect.
purpose: Two relation symbols: the doubled symbol stresses a purposeful relationship.
You will see relation again in Lesson 7 in the Bliss-words for greater than and less than.
language: mouth + ear: what is spoken and heard.
communication: the exchange of meaning
exchange: combination of to receive and to give
meaning: to think and to say and to write: significance the mind attaches to what is spoken or written. Can also be explained relating to the Bliss-word for name.What we think about something as we name it, is its meaning. Name is explained as what we call something as we write and speak about it
name
science: mind + nature - reasoned approach to nature
religion: feeling + God – God-based religion
Some multi-character Bliss-words
(See how many characters within the Bliss-words you can identify before you are given the derivation)
school church library hospital store
forest city
Derivations for the above Bliss-words:
school: building + give + knowledge
church: building + God – building devoted to the worship of God
library: building + book
hospital: building + medical
store:public room + business – publicroom where money is exchanged for goods
( business = money + to hold: money is taken into the till)
You will read more about much/many in Lesson 8.
When this symbol appears at the beginning of a Bliss-word,
it is considered as group of. There will be more information regarding this Bliss-character in Course 201.
Therefore: group of trees = forest
group of houses = city