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| | AlterNet: Who's Watching the Watch List? |
 | | My name is on a list of real and suspected enemies of the state and I can't find out what I'm accused of or why, let alone defend myself. | | | The worst of it is that being put on a list of America's enemies seems to be permanent. | | | This conspiracy theory debunker smells a connection to the Watch List. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story/23362
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| | Writing Systems and Manuscripts |
| | Commerce had held the primary role in the distribution and dissemination of writing systems. | | | While it would certainly be easier for modern scholars if we could simply separate documents by size, unfortunately, it is not that straightforward. | | | We find this purposeful distinction in Neo- Babylon and in the use of the Paleo-Hebraic tetragrammaton among the Dead Sea Scrolls. |
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http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sd/altman_writing.html
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| | A List Apart: Articles: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web |
| | If you are writing in order to discover your mind or to try out a new stance, continue by all means– but file the note in your desk drawer, not on your website. | | | If you write with energy and wit about things that matter, your audience will find you. | | | Never, for any consideration, publish a statement you know to be false. |
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http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving
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| | Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Writing Systems |
| | This paper examines the evidence regarding hieroglyphic literacy and the social dimensions of hieroglyphic writing revealed by recent advances in hieroglyphic decipherment. | | | The decipherment of texts and inscriptions provides us with new insights into Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, even if at times that perspective is shaped by the political ambitions of the ruling elite. | | | UALB Call#: ULIB E 59 W9 W75 1993 |
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http://www.albany.edu/~cr8474/pathfinder.html
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| | Writing system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The pre-Columbian writing systems of the Americas (including among others Olmec and Mayan) are also generally believed to have had independent origins. | | | The first writing system is generally believed to have been the Sumerian script, which developed into cuneiform. | | | The oldest-known forms of writing were primarily logographic in nature, based on pictographic and ideographic elements. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system
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| | List of writing systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Several of these systems, such as Epi-Olmec and Indus, are claimed to have been deciphered, but these claims have not been confirmed by independent researchers. | | | Hieroglyphs were commonly thought to be ideographic before they were translated, and to this day Chinese is often erroneously said to be ideographic. | | | A number of manuscripts from comparable recent past may be written in an invented writing system, a cipher of an existing writing system or may only be an hoax. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_writing_systems
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| | Abecedaria |
| | He writes of the debate on the Catilinian conspiracy that was recorded in shorthand in the Roman Senate as the famous orator Cicero expounded his views. | | | This is the Moon writing system from the early 1840's in England. | | | It is the shorthand system developed by John Willis in The Art of Stenographie, 1602. |
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http://abecedaria.blogspot.com
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| | Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality |
| | LiveJournal had this figured out years ago, by assuming that people would be writing for their friends, rather than some impersonal audience. | | | A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world. | | | What've we've been lacking, until recently, is a theory to go with these observed patterns. |
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
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| | Writing Specifications |
| | The purpose of this article is to convince you to never use one in a specification. | | | This list's elements should have been all nouns. | | | BUT, the rest of the world is expecting to see specifications written in the third person, and writing them otherwise is inviting criticism. |
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http://www.ntsc.navy.mil/Resources/Library/Acqguide/SpecWrit.htm
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| | China List : Chinese Writing |
| | Collection of Chinese reference sheets, tests and revision aids aimed to helpyou speak, read and write Cantonese. | | | China List excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website. | | | Examples of some of the pictographic characters from the early stage of thedevelopment of Chinese writing. |
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http://china-list.com/chinesewriting/index.php
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| | LOCAL ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS |
| | Attempts to address assignment; some confusion or disjointedness; insufficient writing | | | Support attempted; ambiguous/ confusing; unrelated list; insufficient writing | | | Attempted; plan can be inferred; no evidence of paragraphing; confusion prevails; insufficient writing |
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http://www.gower.k12.il.us/Staff/ASSESS/10_fig5.htm
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| | Undeciphered scripts |
| | In some cases the writing systems have been deciphered but the languages they were used to write remain a mystery. | | | Neither the script nor the language it was used to write are known, however Asko Parpola of the University of Helsinki in Finland claims to have partially deciphered the script and believes it probably respresents a Dravidian language. | | | The writing systems listed below have yet to be deciphered or have only been partially deciphered. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/undeciphered.htm
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| | List of writing systems - definition of List of writing systems in Encyclopedia |
| | These writing systems have not yet been completely deciphered, and in some cases are not deciphered at all. | | | A number of manuscripts from comparable recent past may be written in an invented writing system, a cipher of an existing writing system or may only be an hoax. | | | See writing system for a description of the different kinds of writing systems. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/List_of_writing_systems
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| | Ancient Scripts: Writing Systems |
| | Because writing is so intricate there has been many explanations concerning the origins of writing, from mythological to scientific. | | | The study of writing systems is a very broad field, and I cannot claim that this website will reveal every detail. | | | However, many early philosophers, such as Plato, have branded writing as a detriment to the human intellect. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws.html
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| | orion-list RE: Orion-list Writing systems - bib |
| | _The logic of writing and the organization of society_. | | | This is the only book in English on writing systems as systems. | | | It has been restricted to books in English as texts in German, French, Hebrew, Catalan, etc., are hard to come by in the average American or English Library. |
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http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1999b/msg00211.html
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| | Writing Systems and Networking Articles |
| | This is a useful article that teaches scientists how to write single sentences and paragraphs. | | | The TPC member usually provides a review, but may also be asked to find between one and three reviewers who are not members of the TPC. | | | Write the intro last since it glosses the conclusions in one of the last paragraphs. |
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http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/etc/writing-style.html
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| | African Writing Systems |
| | Specifically, writing is a means by which people record, objectify, and organize their activities and thoughts through images and graphs. | | | This means that writing facilitates the proper recording and transmissions of events and deeds from one generation to another. | | | Writing is a means to inscribe meanings that are expressed through sounds. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Amharic.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Writing System/Simplified Lang |
| | This system was used by Samuel Pepys as he wrote his famous Diary. | | | The term has also been used sometimes to mean shorthand, or stenography, and - particularly in paleography - to refer to cursive writing. | | | As other alphabets grew in popularity, with a corresponding decline in the knowledge of runes, the latter were used as magic signs as well as for writing secret messages. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/simpwrth.htm
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| | OUP: World's Writing Systems: Daniels |
| | Units are arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationship within geographical areas. | | | Each unit begins with an introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was created and developed. | | | The World's Writing Systems meets the need for a definitive volume on the major historical and modern writing systems of the world. |
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http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-507993-0
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| | Sites on Scripts and Writing Systems |
| | These are some sites on the Web with information about scripts, writing systems and orthographies. | | | AncientScripts.com “The aim of Ancient Scripts is? to give an introduction to writing systems, which hopefully will tantalize the reader into searching for more information on the web or in books and publications.” | | | There is also a section for special-purpose writing systems for which a region of origin may not be familiar. |
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http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=SitesOnScriptsAndWSs
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| | Books about writing systems and written language |
| | - examines the history of writing from its invention 4,000 years ago to the present day and explores the ways writing has contributed to the development of societies. | | | The book examines systems as diverse as Chinese, Greek, and Maya and each writing system is presented in the light of four major aspects of writing: history and development; internal structure; the relationship of writing and language; and sociolinguistic factors. | | | Questo libro mette in grado il lettore di capire come funzionano i diversi sistemi di scrittura e di leggerne le parole. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/books/writing
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| | The Numbers in Various Writing Systems |
| | What's particularly neat about the Sign Writing system is that it's iconic in a way the writing of speech can never be: ordinary writing has to be a visual representation of sound; but Sign Writing is a visual representation of a visual medium. | | | The system described is basically a featural system-- like Han'gûl, except that where the Korean system has primitives representing sounds, arranged in groups representing syllables, Sign Writing has primitives representing hand and other gestures, arranged in groups representing individual signs. | | | In some cases, like Japanese, it would be rather strange to write out the numbers this way-- the Japanese would use the Chinese or Western symbols, instead. |
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http://www.zompist.com/scripts.html
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| | Academic skills |
| | Writing and presenting your thesis or dissertation (Levine). | | | How to write a winning proposal (U Virginia). | | | A guide for proposal writing (NSF, see also |
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http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/AD/indexB.html
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| | Links to sites on writing systems, some of which also appear here. | | | Oregon U: Writing Systems of the World U.Oregon | | | These are other font pages found on the WWW. |
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http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/writing-sys1.htm
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| | Arizona Suntech - Home Inspection 101 |
| | Narrative style report writing is the preferred style of report writing by The American Society of Home Inspectors, Inc.. | | | The HI #102 class consists of the 30 parallel home inspections. | | | The HI #101 class is a stand alone class which consists of 100 hours of classroom training, as required by the State of Arizona, coupled with three field home inspections. |
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http://www.arizonasuntech.com/101.php?osCsid=62ead116a21837c9842d47672c83ba42
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Dictionary |
| | Dictionaries may either list meanings in the historical order in which they appeared, or may list meanings in order of popularity and most common use. | | | Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book. | | | Words and characters in ideographic writing systems such as Chinese are sorted according to one of numerous schemes based on the components, number of strokes, overall shape, or pronunciation of each character. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/D/DI/DIC/Dictionary
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| | Asian Language Terminology |
| | Hiragana is also used to write words not derived from the traditional Chinese characters, or in place of kanji which have been dropped from everyday use, or when the number of kanji in a sentence becomes so great as to be visually unaesthetic, or makes the author seem "bigheaded." | | | After all the 8 stroke characters have been listed, then all the characters that can be drawn with that radical and 9 strokes are listed, etc. | | | As Chinese writing evolved, and increasing numbers of Chinese characters were created, the difficulty of cataloging led to the selection and stylizing of approximately 1000 components in frequent use. |
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http://www.aproposinc.com/pages/asiantrm.htm
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| | Welcome to Computers and Writing Systems |
| | These PUA characters have been added to Unicode and are being deprecated. | | | This page lists those PUA characters along with the appropriate Unicode codepoints. | | | This project integrates the Graphite smart font rendering engine for complex non-roman scripts and writing systems into OpenOffice.org 2.0.0, the well-known cross-platform FLOSS office suite. |
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http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&...
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| | Ancient Scripts: Links |
| | The same author has another page on a number of articles on interpreting and reading some Rongorongo texts. | | | They are provided as links because they may present information on writing systems. | | | I do not verify the truthfulness of their contents. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/links.html
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| | DDJ>DDJ |
| | You can also view previous netseminars from the past six months. | | | Brian Jones, program manager for Microsoft Office, brings us up to date on the new XML functionality in Office 12. | | | The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies unveils a novel concept for lighting homes and offices. |
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http://www.ddj.com
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| | Writing Directory at Linkcentre.com |
| | WRITING SYSTEMS AND MANUSCRIPTS1 by Rochelle I. AltmanRochelle Altman is a specialist in ancient phonetic-based writing systems. | | | Business Writing You know what to say, but youthe professionals in Oast's dedicated writing team? | | | Go to Home Page News - About us - Writing - Projects - Consultancy - AGMED ContactLinks - Site map - Search Home Page : WritingWriting andnbspFMD articles Writing |
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http://linkcentre.com/Hobbies/Writing/5.php
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| | LINGUIST List 14.289: Writing Systems |
| | The indigenous creation of a syllabary writing system by a previously illiterate native speaker --written by a linguist who devised an alphabetic writing system for the same language. | | | idem, "The Alphabet as a Technology," in.The World's Writing Systems., ed. | | | Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/14/14-289.html
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| | Short reference list on Writing Systems by Vivian Cook |
| | Nakanishi, A. Writing Systems of the World, Charles Tuttle, Rutland | | | Baron, N.S. (1998), ‘Writing in the age of e-mail: the impact of ideology versus technology’, Visible Language, 32, 1, 35-55 | | | These are useful central wide-ranging references on writing. |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c/Linguistics/ShortBibliography.htm
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| | LINGUIST List 4.439: Writing Systems, Magazine, Recording Equipment, Mandelblit |
| | Since we have little expertise re the current developments on this market we would like to know which recorders are recommendable for our purposes (and at what prices). | | | We would be grateful to anyone who could send us helpful information in developing this: syllabuses, bibliographies, course outlines, essay topics, etc. Thanks Henry Rogers rogers | | | Our department is likely to be mounting a course on writing systems and literacy. |
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http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/4/4-439.html
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| | Web Site Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language |
| | The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology, article by Peter Damerow | | | ANE Discussion List for the Study of the Ancient Near East (Oriental Institute) | | | The Cuneiform Digital Palaeography Project (a joint project at the Univ. of Birmingham and the British Museum) |
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http://www.sumerian.org/sumlinks.htm
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| | VB: Picture Languages |
| | The Delasoni Writing System ; An Introduction to Delason |
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http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/seminar/28jul99/PicLang.htm
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| | Welcome |
| | •1000sBC: Egyptians create first illustrated manuscripts—combining images and writing | | | •2000sBC: first writing systems (“visual counterpart of speech”) p4HGD
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http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs024/lectures/lect_07_design2_03_01_05_files/slide0031.htm
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| | LINGUIST List 9.555: Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia |
| | LINGUIST List 9.555: Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia | | | Please keep your conference announcement as short as you can; LINGUIST will not post conference announcements which in our opinion are excessively long. | | | Message 1: Symposium on Literacy and Writing Systems in Asia: |
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http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-555.html
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| | Writing System Website by Vivian Cook |
| | Writing Systems is a web-site that provides information, amusement and advice about writing systems in general and English spelling and the English writing system in particular. | | | Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti (eds.) (2005), Second Language Writing Systems, Multilingual Matters | | | Book: Vivian Cook (2004), The English Writing System, Arnold |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/vivian.c
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| | Index |
| | How we got stuck with the world's worst spelling system | | | Do we have to recommend a particular scheme | | | A Democratic Orthography - respellings approved by 51% |
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http://www.foolswisdom.com/users/sbett
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