Altniederfränkisches Wörterbuch

Dictionary of Old Low Franconian. [Google]  ¶ 11:18 AM

  Xiangqi - Wikipedia: Xiangqi (象棋 pinyin xiang4 qi2, pronunciation resembles "see-ahng chi"), also called Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a game that is similar to shogi and chess and goes back to the same origins: the Indian game Chatrang, from about 1400 years ago.

Looks cool... will hafta try it sometime..   ¶ 1:01 AM

  IIALC 1930, Practical Orthography of African Languages: "THE first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages, consisting of 3,500 copies (3,000 in English and 500 in German) has been sold out within two years. This fact proves that the problem of finding a practical and uniform method of writing African languages has aroused widespread interest, and that the efforts of the Institute towards the solution of the problem have met with considerable response."

Interesting resource on standard use of Latin(ate) characters for languages with larger phoneme inventories than actual Latin. [CONLANG]  ¶ 12:58 AM

  stephenbriggs.com cmot dibbler

Discworld merchandise, fresh from Britland. Some o' that stuff looks pretty cool.  ¶ 10:58 PM

  Alphabet 26

Our conventional alphabet contains 19 letters having dissimilar upper and lower case symbols (such as ‘A’ and ‘a’) and 7 letters (c-o-s-v-w-x-z) having symbols that are identical.

It is misleading for a letter, or for any graphic symbol, to have two different designs. Confusion might set in when school children are taught to recognize words even before they have learned to recognize different symbols for the same letter.

To remedy this, Alphabet 26, a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].

Interesting idea. Will hafta do something like that in a font soon. :) [from CONLANG]  ¶ 12:36 AM

  Doe's Iffy Theory - Contents : "The Meta-Puzzle of Interactive Fiction: Why We Like What We Like"

Interesting theory on the appeal of different aspects of IF. [r*if]  ¶ 11:26 PM

  The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America

Egad... Holy frosted vowel shifts, Batman! [from CONLANG]  ¶ 7:08 PM

  AtariArchives.org - archiving vintage computer books, information, and software: "atariarchives.org makes books, information, and software for Atari and other classic computers available on the Web."

Whoa... some real flashbacks here.   ¶ 2:44 PM