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The post-TechCrunch post [excuse the pun] tremors are still being felt here at Zlango-land. Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch post from June 28, caused a tidal wave of comments, posts and lots of Zlango talk in many tongues. MobileCrunch posted a piece…

TechCrunch reports on Zlango, a icon based SMS that has potential implications also for e-mail and IM. The main one seems to be that it could be used across different languages with simple pictures depicting words. How Zlango would evolve…

I cam across this interesting post on TechCrunch about a new Israeli start-up, Zlango, that has created an icon-based language for exchanging messages via SMS. SMS is essentially text messaging for cell phones. In the case of Zlango, their new……

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Imagine books, greeting cards, mobile messaging, graffiti… all in ONE international language.

Can not wait for the launch.

They have literally invented their own language around acronyms, emoticons, and abbreviations. But since Zlango uses pictures I see it as being a common ground that most humans can understand. There is something very basic and guttural about using pictorial language - some of the initial languages and artwork that humans invented were pictorial in nature. If Zlango gets a decent amount of interest with young people I think it could take off.

The Icon language is related to SNOBOL; check out Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....g_language

The title said this was Icon-based; it’s not….

Factor in the time taken to become fluent in the symbology - it’s simple now, but add enough icons to represent most commonly-used words and it will be considerably harder to remember whether the icon you need lives in one category or another.

In the meantime, there’s a number of words/concepts for which there isn’t yet an icon, which slows early adoption.

Then consider that both the sender and the receiver have to be fluent and running the app at the time of communication.

As for allowing two people who don’t share a common language to communicate, well, I’m sorry, but I don’t have any friends in my phone book who don’t speak the same language as me!

Both Kanji and Hieroglyphs are pictorial, using icons to depict abstract concepts, such as time, emotion, and intention.

But one big difference here is that over time the older pictorials got modified party because they had to be written and “stroked”. The economy of strokes required simplification, and eventually the invention of phonemes/consonants-vowels). This new, icon language does not face that burden, since it will only be “written” using devices capable or recalling a (relatively large) bitmap.

However, the natural languages do benefit from ages upon ages of evolutionary adaptation and refinement, making them quite rich in nuances and expression. This is why the expression IMHO, has a very powerful H (and not O) in its core. There is no time, nor any obvious mechanism for these icons to evolve.

Will this new language succeed? Will human beings further relinquish the nuances of their communications to even more simplified, and cookie cut, bricks? Unlikely.

To me, this writing, at its present form, is a fad. Cool? Yes! Practical? No.

Under what circumstances does a normal person want to have a conversation with someone else who doesn’t speak the same language? Having recently learned Mandarin, my drawing skills have improved. But pictures describe objects (nouns), describing an abstract concept that everyone will intuitively understand is very hard.

This is kind of like “Beginners Chinese” in that there are many characters, many of them pictures. Which brings up the issue that people aren’t going to be able to communicate with this outside of using their phones/e-mail (i.e. when you’re face to face with someone). If you’re not face to face… why not just use an online translator which is gauranteed to be more descriptive?

Not to mention this seems to merely replace words with icons, but grammer is of huge importance too and the world’s languages aren’t all “object+verb+subject” based.

Nonetheless, it might be faster than SMS and more fun to use. Who knows it might catch on, it sounds pretty cute. In all honesty it would be really neat linguistically if this caught on in multi-lingual environments, but for the reasons stated above I kind of doubt that will happen.

Anyways, fun product with certainly an interesting future ahead.