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Unker 非线性写作系统
Unker Non-Linear Writing System
导读
UNLWS 是一种非线性的二维书写系统：它不靠字词排成一行推进，而让语义通过空间布局和各部分之间的关系来表达；对话则是对同一张共享图画的持续共同编辑。对写作者来说，它提出一个值得琢磨的问题：文本的排列方式本身就在传递意义，而不只是内容的容器。它也促使我们反思线性写作默认了什么，以及换一种结构能否让读者看见更多“关系”而非只是“条目”。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把结构当作表达手段：段落的空间排布、分栏、并列与从属的视觉呈现，本身就能传达逻辑关系，不要只依赖文字说明。
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写作时区分“固定形态”与“修订过程”：终稿呈现结论的整体，而草稿、批注和修改痕迹则承载讨论的语气；两者可以有意识地分开设计。
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借用他人的表达再加工是协作写作的常态：允许自己在别人写下的内容上续写、改写，而不必每次另起一段新气泡。
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新符号体系要控制学习成本：抽象关系可以用专门记号，但具体名词动词最好由少量简单构件组合而成，读者才愿意进入。
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有意识地打破线性顺序做练习：先画出概念之间的关系图，再决定文字以什么顺序落地，可能发现新的论证路径。
HN 评论精选
把对话看作对共享文本的共同编辑，用修改过程承载语气、用最终形态承载整体。
这个构想最迷人的地方在于它对“对话”的重新定义：UNLWS 里的交谈不是线性的轮流发言，而是对同一个共享结构的持续共同编辑；回放修订历史（或实时围观）承载了线性对话中“语气”的部分，而最终固定下来的形态则表达所有参与者说过的整体。不同墨色用来区分参与者，但没有边界阻止一个人把别人的笔迹纳入自己的表达；甚至有专门的“对话变体”字形，用两种墨色标记，方便插入已经画好的段落。可惜用铅笔或钢笔编辑实在太费劲了。
skoodge查看英文原文
What a fascinating concept, especially this part: > We have only started to develop how to hold a conversation in UNLWS itself. As we currently have it, it's a very, very different kind of thing than linear atomic turntaking. Rather, it's a sort of ongoing mutual edit of a shared structure, where revision history playback (or live observation) expresses the 'conversational' tone expected by linear conversation, and the fixed form expresses the integrated totality of what the participants have expressed. Different ink colors help to distinguish participants, but there are no boundaries preventing one participant from using another's ink as part of their own expressions. Indeed, there are a few special conversational variants of glyphs which are meant to be easier to drop in to an already-drawn passage than the normal forms; these are recognizable by their use of two ink colors. (It’s a pity that it’s so fiddly to edit pencil or pen drawings.) I can't help but wonder how this would look like applied to instant messaging: We are used to seeing our conversations arranged in differently colored bubbles, but how would our form of communication change if we instead communicated on a collaborative surface where we could freely choose which color to use and where to add our thoughts? (Similar to how Slack already introduces a small amount of non-linearity in the form of threaded conversations, but applied on a much larger scale, so that non-linear collaborative communication becomes the default instead of an afterthought.)
非线性书写可能反过来塑造思维，让人更关注关系与整体而非孤立对象。
这让我想到电影《降临》和萨丕尔-沃夫假说，即语言会影响人的感知与认知。这个设计确实有趣，有一种象形文字加电路图的味道，但不太清楚我们能从中推出或获得什么。我觉得非线性思维本来就是大脑天然的运作方式，只是我们没被训练成那样去解码符号，所以这种语言会如何改变我们的认知，值得一看：它能帮我们更整体地看想法吗？能让我们对关系而不只是对对象更敏感吗？能打开新的思维模式吗？
chronikewok查看英文原文
This reminds me of the film Arrival and relates to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [1]regarding how language affects our perception and cognition. It's certainly a very interesting design (there's a hieroglyphic electrical circuit quality to it), but it wasn't clear what we can infer or gain from this non-linear form of writing. I feel like non-linear thinking is naturally how our brains work (or has more potential to work), but not how we have been trained to decode symbols, so it'd be interesting to see how this type of language might alter our cognition. Would this help us look at ideas more holistically? Would this help us be more sensitive to relationships rather than just the objects? Could this open up new patterns of thinking? Lot's of interesting questions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
全表意的符号系统记忆负担过重，抽象关系用专门记号、实词用组合构件更可行。
欣赏完这个新颖又烧脑的东西之后，我试着想象：如果一个社会真的普及了这种书写会怎样。每个新词（至少每个语素）都得有自己的专属符号或表意图，需要学习和记忆；一个有实用价值的词汇表意味着上千个表意图，负担相当重。我能想到的改良方案是：只为抽象关系（比如介词）设置表意图，而普通的名词、动词仍由少量更简单的构件组合而成，就像我们用字母拼词那样。
restalis查看英文原文
After going through the phase of admiring this new and intellectually stimulating thing, I went on with an exercise of imagination about how it would look like for a society to have evolved somehow into using this at large. Each new word (or at least morpheme) has to have its own signature/ideogram that has to be learned and remembered. For a lexicon of any practical use that would mean thousands of ideograms. That feels quite a burden. An improved solution that I'm able to imagine just now may be to have ideograms only for abstract relations (like for prepositions) and keep "ordinary" words (as the nouns and verbs, at least) formed by a much smaller group of simpler constructs, like we do with alphabet letters? Good stuff, nevertheless.
作者本人现身答疑，可顺链了解更多设计细节。
我是 Sai，UNLWS 的共同创造者。有相关问题可以问我。
saizai查看英文原文
I'm Sai, co-creator of UNLWS. AMA(relevant).
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