The Deseret Alphabet came about on January 19, 1854 when the Board of Regents of the University of Deseret announced that they had adopted a new phonetic alphabet. The new alphabet consisted of 38 to 40 characters as part of a project to help simplify spelling in the English Language. Really neat info here. You can even download the font! picked by muppet 4 months ago tags deseret phoenetic english alphabet font letter |
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"I couldn’t decide between CRYMPH or DLECH," said Chengdu high school student Mingmei Lee. "I know they both mean beautiful flower dancing in the wind in American, but I can't decide what looks prettier." picked by misswinkle 12 months ago 12 comments edit related share plime.com |
Photographer Kjell Sandved has made it his life's work to capture them and create this amazing butterfly alphabet, with every letter from A to Z and every number from 1 to 9. picked by MissWinkle 7 months ago 4 comments edit related share arts |
Campaigners for the English language on Thursday attacked a growing tendency for "obvious" public information posters, such as a police sign urging people: "Don't Commit Crime." picked by spocksmyhomeboy 12 months ago 8 comments edit related share plime.com |
Blackalicious' video for his alphabet song. Teach this to your kindergarten class. picked by em0ney 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Jared von Hindman's latest alphabet. It's pretty... special. Yeahhhhh. I did enjoy "T" though. 6 comments edit related share plime.com(His other alphabets linked at the bottom.) picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago |
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Oh you rank amatuer. You think you are the geekiest person because you speak Klingon fluently and can get by in 2 of Tolkien's languages. Ha! 0 comments edit related share weirdThe True Geek is also fluent in Kryptonian. That's right the language of Krypton, home planet of Superman. Click on the link for those who wish to be enlightened about the 118-letter Krypton alphabet picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago |
English as it is spoken today will have disappeared in 100 years and could be replaced by a global language called Panglish, researchers claim. New words will form and meanings will change with the most dramatic changes being made by people learning English as a second language. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Norwegian (here I'm talking about bokmål, the most often-used variety of Norwegian) is a language spoken by about 5 million people in Norway, and is extremely similar to the languages Swedish and Danish. picked by bernardblack 2 weeks ago 1 comments edit related share world |
Edward Gorey's ghastly alphabet book for sickly children who are kept locked up in damp dark rooms. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
A photographic alphabet created by tall buildings and the sky above them. 5 comments edit related share plime.comBrilliant !!! picked by wildminou 1 year ago |
This is from Violent is the Word for Curly and proves that the Stooges can teach beautiful women anything. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Looks like the Poles are going to get a good education then! NOT! picked by topofall 5 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Mango is offering free language courses on French, German, Italian, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and even Pig Latin 9 comments edit related share plime.comSpanish and Polish speakers can learn English picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago |
A young girl gets lost in her alphabet soup. picked by daftgretel 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
The word, which is the scientific name for a protein containing 267 amino acids. It contains 1,846 letters. Take that, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. picked by gratheo 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share weird |
Cryptic graffiti popping up in London and beyond strikes fear among her fans. picked by suebe 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share weird |
Less than a tenth of China's pilots meet international aviation English standards. picked by kxmk 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share world |
Japanese? Want to learn English? Being mugged by two men? Want to stay in shape? Trapped in the 80s? All at the same time? This language course could be for you then. And in an odd way, it is kind of catchy. picked by pocksucket 9 months ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
In addition to creating the letters, Mason's research group can pick up letters and reposition and reorient them in a microscale version of the game Scrabble 4 comments edit related share scienceThose kooky scientists are always coming up with new ways to have fun. picked by gnikgnok 1 year ago |
This automatic text translator interprets any English phrase back-and-forth into five languages with a final return to the mother tongue. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of "Telephone"? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained. Try it for yourself picked by TraumaMamma 10 months ago 13 comments edit related share plime.com |