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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. | | | Within the ancient writing systems, the width of the minim is the measure for horizontal movement; the height of the 'o' (ayin in Hebrew and Aramaic fonts) is the measure for vertical movement. | | | Ancient writing systems are phonetically based; their primary purpose is to record speech, the words as spoken along with all those components that identify the text as *that* text. |
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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 your writing is a personal journal, and if it is honest, you will have to write about things that you find embarrassing to describe, feelings you might not want to share, events that you wouldn’t mention to strangers (or, perhaps, to anyone). | | | If you write with energy and wit about things that matter, your audience will find you. |
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http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving
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| | Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Writing Systems |
| | The pictorial icons that comprised these early writing systems were apparently elements of artistic representations that came to be isolated and sequentially ordered to communicate particular ideas. | | | Browsing areas for materials on writing systems, in general, and Pre-Columbian writing systems, in particular, are spread across several Library of Congress classification designations. | | | This paper examines the evidence regarding hieroglyphic literacy and the social dimensions of hieroglyphic writing revealed by recent advances in hieroglyphic decipherment. |
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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 invention of the first writing systems is roughly contemporary with the beginning of the Bronze Age in the late Neolithic of the late 4th millennium BC. | | | Writing systems are conceptual systems, as are the languages to which they refer. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_system
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| | List of writing systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In logographic writing systems, glyphs represents words or morphemes (meaningful components of words, as in mean-ing-ful), rather than phonetic elements. | | | 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. | | | 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 |
| | This is the Moon writing system from the early 1840's in England. | | | I focus on the writing system in order to challenge the conception of such texts as marked or marginal, a view that misleadingly equates language and script. | | | 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. |
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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. | | | In systems where many people are free to choose between many options, a small subset of the whole will get a disproportionate amount of traffic (or attention, or income), even if no members of the system actively work towards such an outcome. |
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
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| | Writing Specifications |
| | BUT, the rest of the world is expecting to see specifications written in the third person, and writing them otherwise is inviting criticism. | | | 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. |
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http://www.ntsc.navy.mil/Resources/Library/Acqguide/SpecWrit.htm
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| | China List : Chinese Writing |
| | Very rich site on linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spellingreforms and social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies. | | | Academia Sinica, a Taiwanese institute, describes its research departments onhistory, linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, and the Chinese writing systems. | | | 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. | | | The writing systems listed below have yet to be deciphered or have only been partially deciphered. | | | 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. |
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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. | | | See writing system for a description of the different kinds of writing systems. | | | 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://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/List_of_writing_systems
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| | orion-list RE: Orion-list Writing systems - bib |
| | This is the only book in English on writing systems as systems. | | | _The logic of writing and the organization of society_. | | | Punctuation Systems Parkes, Malcolm B. _Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West. |
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http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1999b/msg00211.html
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| | Ancient Scripts: Writing Systems |
| | The study of writing systems is a very broad field, and I cannot claim that this website will reveal every detail. | | | While it is true that writing systems appear to develop in agricultural and urban cultures, by no means it is a requirement for civilization. | | | Because writing is so intricate there has been many explanations concerning the origins of writing, from mythological to scientific. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws.html
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Writing System/Simplified Lang |
| | You have reached the page for specialized writing systems and simplified languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana. | | | Specialized writing systems are those developed for a specific purpose in addition to simple written communication. | | | Reasons for inventing such writing systems include attempts to write faster, secrecy, and efforts to simplify the process of learning to read. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/simpwrth.htm
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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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| | 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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| | Books about writing systems and written language |
| | 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. | | | - provides detailed coverage of all major writing systems of historical or structural significance with thorough discussion of structure, history, and social context as well as important theoretical issues. | | | - 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. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/books/writing
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| | The Numbers in Various Writing Systems |
| | As a supplement to my list of the numbers from 1 to 10 in over a thousand languages, here are the numbers written in a few native writing systems, plus ASL. | | | 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. |
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http://www.zompist.com/scripts.html
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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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| | 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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| | LINGUIST List 16.1350: Writing Systems/Textbooks: Rogers (2005) |
| | Writing Systems is a textbook designed to introduce students to the | | | appears to be the common historical influence of Chinese writing. | | | world as well as several less well-known systems. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/16/16-1350.html
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| | Academic skills |
| | Writing and presenting your thesis or dissertation (Levine). | | | A guide for proposal writing (NSF, see also | | | How to write a winning proposal (U Virginia). |
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http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/AD/indexB.html
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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 |
| | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/D/DI/DIC/Dictionary
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| | Asian Language Terminology |
| | 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. | | | Even though Chinese sounds only roughly correspond to the English pronunciation of pinyin, the advantage of pinyin is that it closely corresponds to the bopomofo writing system, and that it is the standard phonetic system used in (mainland) China. | | | 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." |
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http://www.aproposinc.com/pages/asiantrm.htm
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| | Welcome to Computers and Writing Systems |
| | 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. | | | Over its short history, the Non-Roman Script Initiative of SIL International has developed a model for using computers to implement the various writing systems that are needed for text input, storage, processing, and output. | | | A glossary of terms associated with implementing writing systems compiled by the NRSI. |
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http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&...
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| | writing-sys1 |
| | Links to sites on writing systems, some of which also appear here. | | | Oregon U: Writing Systems of the World U.Oregon | | | An alphabet is one of several types of writing systems. |
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http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/writing-sys1.htm
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| | DDJ>DDJ |
| | The Alliance for Solid-State Illumination Systems and Technologies unveils a novel concept for lighting homes and offices. | | | The Reliable, Adaptive, and Distributed Systems Laboratory (or RAD Lab) is formed at U.C. Berkeley. | | | You can also view previous netseminars from the past six months. |
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http://www.ddj.com
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