And what about UTF-8 letters (for example ā, ž, š)? How can you make them by using dotsies?
Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
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Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#72And what about UTF-8 letters (for example ā, ž, š)? How can you make them by using dotsies?
Just add the accents at the top - http://dotsies.org/m/#%F8x+isf+%F4x+pt%F2q+xysjhh%E1
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#73Interesting learning paradigm but on the "optimized for reading" side, we already have the Chinese alphabet which is probably at least as dense as dotsies.
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#74This reminds me a great deal of Mark Twain's plan for the improvement of English Spelling: http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html
Attributed to Mark Twain, but unlikely to be written by him:
http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j31/satires.php http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/spoofs.php
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can knock out /c/, /q/ and /x/ right off-- maybe a couple other consonants (/j/?) with creative digraphs (/gi/?). Sounds a bit like omniglot.com/writing/franklin.htm. Franklin scrapped c, j, q, w, x, and y. The idea sounds reasonable to me. He gave up on it after a while though. I'm guessing the more differences you have, the bigger the barrier to adoption tends to be. > just press every sound that's in the wor…
Yeah, it's been proposed before... It's pretty hard to convince everyone they should start using a new language nobody else can read. (More people now speak Klingon than Esperanto. Ouch.) I think computers change the equation, though. Machine translation would be almost impeccable. Using phonetics visually would make chording intuitive in a way it hasn't been until now... You can do a soft launch where you start out…
I was curious about the "More people now speak Klingon than Esperanto" thing, but from what I can tell it's emphatically not true. The number of fluent Esperantists is somewhere in the tens or hundreds of thousands, whereas the number of fluent speakers of Klingon is closer to a few dozen.
Here are some sources, including a particularly cool 2009 Salon article on Klingon, Esperanto and conlangs in general:
http://www.salon.com/2009/06/03/invented_languages/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080228012811AA...
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#76The end of the story looks like 'space invaders', and I have the urge to shoot the letters.
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#77I really like this approach (even if I'm still not entirely convinced about the benefits of dotsies). For a while, I've had this idea of a book that starts in standard English, and gradually alters the grammar and introduces new words - so that halfway-through it's written in somewhat of a pidgin/creole language, and by the end you're reading a completely different language (e.g. French or Japanese). I'm not aware of…
I had a similar thought a while back when reading "A Clockwork Orange". On page one the slang ("droogs", "horrorshow", "moloko", ...) is rather jarring and it's not entirely clear what it all means, but over time the meaning becomes apparent.
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#78The end of the story looks like 'space invaders', and I have the urge to shoot the letters.
Omg, there should totally be a game like that to help people learn!
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#79I really like this approach (even if I'm still not entirely convinced about the benefits of dotsies). For a while, I've had this idea of a book that starts in standard English, and gradually alters the grammar and introduces new words - so that halfway-through it's written in somewhat of a pidgin/creole language, and by the end you're reading a completely different language (e.g. French or Japanese). I'm not aware of…
I had a similar thought a while back when reading "A Clockwork Orange". On page one the slang ("droogs", "horrorshow", "moloko", ...) is rather jarring and it's not entirely clear what it all means, but over time the meaning becomes apparent.
Ah yes, it's fun to say those words while listening to a little of the old Ludwig Van. Maybe even a little of the old in and - alright I'll stop there.
Re: Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what I'm saying, you already do that. When you read a line of text your eyes move several words at a time, but your area of focus is only wide enough to really see a few letters at a time. You are recognizing some words wholesale, simply ignoring others and filling in with context. The impression that you have seen the entire line of text is a clever illusion developed inside your brain. You very rarely pay at…
If you want your kids to read faster than you get them on speed reading training - just takes constant training. Teach them sign language, while young when it's really easy to learn (harder for us adults, though apparently not hard either) - it could open up a lot of doors, and if I'm not mistaken it's somewhat internationalized? If enough of the new generation groks that, imagine what it does for communication. Teac…
Actually, sign languages are quite distinct. Distinct to the extent that British and American sign language are not mutually comprehensible (ASL is in fact related to French sign language). In Norway (where I'm from), some of the sign language dialects vary a lot more than the spoken dialects as well.