These were nonsegmental graphemes; they couldn't be isolated from the rest of a semagram.
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The heptapods didn't write a sentence one semagram at a time; they built it out of strokes irrespective of individual semagrams.
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I didn't want to use the term "ideogram" either because of how it had been used in the past; I suggested the term "semagram" instead.
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The semagrams seemed to be something more than language; they were almost like mandalas.
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Instead of racing forward, my mind hung balanced on the symmetry underlying the semagrams.
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I wrote out the semagrams for "locus exchange-transaction converse inclusive-we" with the projective aspect modulation.
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I had sheets of such inelegant semagrams covering my desk, fluttering occasionally when the oscillating fan swung past.
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I started playing the tape, and watched the web of semagrams being spun out of inky spider's silk.
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I wrote out the semagrams for "process create-endpoint inclusive-we," meaning "let's start." Raspberry replied in the affirmative, and the slide shows began.
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Instead of practicing my pronunciation, I had taken to squeezing my eyes shut and trying to paint semagrams on the insides of my eyelids.