I second Bob's suggestion of giving RadioLab a listen. I love listening to RadioLab!
Thanks, On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 1:16 PM, robert therriault <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
