Blogs about: Writing Systems
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Two Big Happies
A few weeks ago, from Benita Bendon Campbell, two cartoons from the strip One Big Happy (information on the strip here), with little kids coping with English. Ruthie plays with alphabetical ordering:… more →
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Reminded of my Thesis
wrote 2 months ago: Just recently I have taken on a freelance project that has evolved and grown to a much larger undert … more →
Why Somali is harder than your language
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wrote 2 months ago: A young Somali man. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Recently I was discussing with @JaredRomey abou … more →
Week Three: Ideography in History and the Alphabetic Form
wrote 2 months ago: Visual descriptions of written communication systems based on this week’s lecture. Pictured i … more →
Utopian Writing Systems
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wrote 2 months ago: In this blog, I tend to focus on new books, but an online article by the BBC this week reminded me o … more →
Monthly Round-Up: February 2013 at a Glance
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wrote 2 months ago: Another month has come and gone. Here were China Heritage Watch’s top posts of February 2013: … more →
The worst obstacle
wrote 2 months ago: Human beings start life as language geniuses. Small children can and do learn any language in the wo … more →
A visual map of the writing systems of the world
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wrote 3 months ago: A light celebration (but by no means an accurate depiction of the complexity of language systems) th … more →
Friday Video: The Forgotten Kingdom
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wrote 3 months ago: The Forgotten Kingdom is a 23-minute documentary on Naxi culture and Dongba script (东巴文) produced by … more →
First Phrases in Japanese
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wrote 3 months ago: コメントをありがとう、フランシスコさん。(Gracias, Francisco, por tus commentarios sobre Doing Hobbies in Other Languages … more →
Video: A Living Fossil: The Precious Dongba Script
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wrote 3 months ago: The video below is a short introduction to the Dongba script (东巴文), a primarily pictographic writing … more →
A newly invented writing system for Chinook Jargon
wrote 3 months ago: A newly invented writing system for Chinook Jargon: It’d been a while since I’d talked m … more →
Reader poll: how to write in Chinook Jargon?
wrote 4 months ago: How to write in Chinook Jargon? [polldaddy poll=6796867] Thanks for voting! Share with friends so th … more →
Omniglot.com
wrote 5 months ago: Do check out Omniglot.com. It’s an extensive collection of the world’s writing systems. … more →
Two Big Happies
wrote 5 months ago: A few weeks ago, from Benita Bendon Campbell, two cartoons from the strip One Big Happy (information … more →
ancient writing
wrote 6 months ago: Some of my recent reading in things ancient has been on the invention and history of writing. The f … more →
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wrote 8 months ago: Dr Heather Winskel is currently continuing (and it seems challenging) the academic literature that h … more →
Tips for Learning a New Alphabet
wrote 9 months ago: On of the biggest excuses I’ve heard as to why people don’t want to learn a language is … more →
Languages 101: Alphabet soup
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wrote 10 months ago: I may have mentioned this before, but I love writing systems. From a purely aesthetic perspective, … more →
Ed Fisher cartoons
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wrote 10 months ago: Passed on from the Archaeosoup site (via Facebook), this New Yorker cartoon (1/26/63) by Ed Fisher: … more →
