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synesthesia and audile-tactile richness of experience, far more
than does the bare, abstract alphabetic form. It would be well
today if children were taught a good many Chinese ideograms
and Egyptian hieroglyphs as a means of enhancing their
appreciation of our alphabet.
Colin Cherry, then, misses the point about the unique
character of our alphabet, namely that it dissociates or
abstracts, not only sight and sound, but separates all meaning
from the sound of the letters, save so far as the meaningless
letters relate to the meaningless sounds. So long as any other
meaning is vested in sight or sound, the divorce between the
visual and the other senses remains incomplete, as is the case
in all forms of writing save the phonetic alphabet.