Essentially, they postulate that no full writing system can be completely pictographic or ideographic; it must be able to refer directly to a language in order to have the full expressive capacity of a language. Unger disputes claims made on behalf of Blissymbols in his 2004 book Ideogram.
Last update: 01/2001. These idioms are used on a daily basis in Portugal. The messages they convey are, for the most part, universal, and many other cultures have their equivalents. The uniqueness of these idioms is in the way the messages are expressed. The choice of words, in many cases, exposes traces of a culture centered around farming, fishing and Catholicism.
brasilian portuguese. Someone can help me to understand the expression Te echo de menos, in spanish. I asked for teachers, and some natives, and iÂ´ve got the aswer of the meaning, i miss you. But....the real meaning, the native meaning, could be i wonÂ´t loose you or iÂ´ll be with you even so far.... iÂ´m i right? Oct 1, 2008.