Imagine a

type
way of writing

script in [h|w]hich ˇ◇◇◇ letters

stand for
are used to indicate

sounds, but ˇare used also

as accents
to indicate emphasis

and as marks of punctuation ˇsigns. (One can regard a

type
way of writing

script as a language for the description of sounds.) Now suppose someone

interpreted
understood

our
this

type
way of writing

script a[d|s] though it were one in which to every all letters there simply corresponded a just stood for sounds, and as though the letters ˇhere did not have other very also have quite different functions as well. – ˇSuch [A|a]n oversimplified view of the type our script like this one resembles is the analogon, I believe, ˇto Augustine's view of language.

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.