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.
(redirect)â. 1  Iâm blanking on trying to recall a movie I watched a few months agoâ¦. 2  Hi, I have been trying to remember this movieâ¦now I think it was foreign because it sound as though they spoke Spanish but it was not clear so it could have been Portuguese. 3  I saw this movie probably 10 years ago for only a short time.