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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.
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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.
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The pictographic alphabet is called a
Pictobet
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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.
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The Pictobabble language spells the parts of pictures:
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.
All drawings, visual representations, images and image files of the language
and games called
"Pictobabel", "Pictobabble", "Pictobet", or "SymbolsNet Playing Cards"
displayed here or elsewhere are protected by Copyright © 1993 by
the webmaster & owner of Symbols.Net,
George F. Sutton.
All rights reserved.
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