8 month ago
Richard Rutter : Utterly fantastic book of the alphabet - Supremely clever and beautiful. To be published Oct 08.
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plasticbag : How to write in polytonic (ancient) Greek in OSX - This is sort of a niche thing to care about, but care about it I do. I keep wondering if I should put up any of my old abandoned doctoral work onto the web. Seems weird to have spent that much time on something and not be able to open up some of the resul
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Omniglot is a fascinating guide to written language that I can't get enough of... - It has stuff on various alphabets and syllabaries, abjads (like alphabets but with a different handling of vowel sounds) and scripts that defy translation...
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plasticbag : A Brief History of Writing Instuments - Ink and Letters - "From cave paintings to the quill pen -- how ink, paper and pens were all were invented"
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