There are many challenges when it comes to giving people new ways to communicate. RadioLab is a radio program that produces aural documentaries and in this episode there was a segment on the complicated backstory of the Bliss symbols. If you have not listened to RadioLab before, this is a chance to experience a very powerful form of storytelling which after all is why we have symbols at all.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/257194-man-became-bliss/ Cheers, bob On Apr 17, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Vijay Lulla <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon, this was a great read. Thanks for sharing. > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Jon Hough <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've seen some posts on the chat about linguistics, and it seems a few >> people here are interested init, so I thought this might interest some >> people: >> http://idsgn.org/posts/bringing-bliss-to-non-speakers/ >> At first glance the symbol combinations look a little APL-y, at least to >> someone who doesn't know APL. >> The symbols don't appear to be in the unicode standard >> http://unicode.org/pending/pending.html >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
