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This guy has huge gaps in his analysis. He’s writing about reading and writing without connection to communication and the social construction of language within a societal group. He’s also writing from a very limited and biases lens of English. It’s pissing me off.

I may not finish this; it's a kind of college text for future teachers rather than the deep-dive into the psychology of converting squiggles to mentally reconstructed sounds to pictures to ideas that I was hoping for. The book I was looking for is probably out there somewhere, but I haven't found it here.

grad school books count, right?

Pictographic communication consists of images of objects. Such are good showcases when simply used for object representation, but prone to miscommunication when representing anything else. Modern communication requires more grammar and rules.

Sounds (phonology) and meaning (semantics) are two pillars to gain expertise in languages.