Lego Blocks and the Written Language
An Essay by Robert Guzman
Putting language together in print is a lot like building things with Lego blocks.
You
connect and stack these multi-colored plastic tiles and with a little luck you can build almost
anything....
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Lego Blocks and the Written Language
An Essay by Robert Guzman
Putting language together in print is a lot like building things with Lego blocks.
You
connect and stack these multi-colored plastic tiles and with a little luck you can build almost
anything.
You match colors and create shapes thatform things, differentthings.
While on a recent
visit to central Florida my daughter Jenny and I visited the Lego Store in Down Town Disney at
Orlando.
This store is dedicated to all things Lego.
There are hundreds of kits for building all sorts
of neat things with these versatile blocks.
It is amazing what you can build with Legos.
There was a large model of the Space
Shuttle.
There were historical buildings like the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower and the
London Bridge.
There were medieval castles and many other structures, all built with the same
littleplastic tiles.
Well, written language works the same way.
You begin with arbitrary symbols called
letters.
With letters you
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