Monthly Archives: June 2017

June 21: Evolution and Spelling

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That’s why we have to spell “margarine” like we’re out of our entire damn minds.

Material From Today’s Class

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Assignments

Reading

  • AoLI Chapter 4, pp. 247-258

Practice

  • (None Today)

Mastery

  • MA9 on orthography and spelling.

Backburner

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June 20: Glyph Shape

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Hopefully today helped if you’re the type of person who describes themselves as “not artistic”. BIG thank you to Trent Pehrson for coming to speak to us today!

Material From Today’s Class

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Assignments

Reading

  • (None Today)

Practice

  • Tonight I want you to decide whether you’re going to be doing an alphabet, an abjad, or an abugida. Also decide which direction it’s going to be written, if there are going to be spaces between the words or not, and what stages it went through in terms of its implementation (i.e. what did it start out being written on and written with, and what is written on and with now).

Mastery

  • (None Today)

Backburner

  • Keep looking at MA9, due Thursday.
  • Keep looking at MA10, due next Monday.
  • Keep thinking about and working on your final project.

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June 19: Introduction to Orthography

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Today was the best day: The beginning of our deep dive into orthography!

Material From Today’s Class

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Assignments

Reading

  • AoLI Chapter 4, pp. 228-245

Practice

  • To help you (and others) get ready to do your own orthographies, I want you to search the internet for images of two objects or animals or artifacts or tools unique to your culture that could serve as the basis as some glyph. You don’t need to create a word for it: Just post the picture in our #orthography channel and say what it is. (Note: Try to post a variety of pictures!)

Mastery

  • (None Today)

Backburner

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June 15: Irathient Case Study

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Irathient is my favorite language. If you didn’t like it DON’T SAY ANYTHING! My feelings will be hurt and I will cry. Focus up on MA8, because next week we start on orthography! ~:D

Material From Today’s Class

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Assignments

Reading

  • AoLI Chapter 4, pp. 209-228

Practice

  • Go to Omniglot and find an orthography that does not use the Roman alphabet and post a link to our #orthography channel. Tell us what interests you about it!

Mastery

  • MA 8: Remember to do this assignment making reference to everything you created—in particular MA 4 and MA 6!

Backburner

  • Next week we’re going to be creating writing systems, so it will be a great week to start thinking about and preparing your final project! Go through the elements of the final and see what it is that needs to be done, and then start writing it up. Figure out what questions you have, and what you still want to work on!
  • Keep thinking about and working on your final project.

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June 14: Pragmatics

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Today we looked at pragmatics in all its glory. (Also negation and other stuff.)

Material From Today’s Class

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Assignments

Reading

  • AoLI Chapter 2, pp. 153-158

Practice

  • Tough day. Post a picture of some manner of animal (hopefully the adorable kind) to our #general channel!

Mastery

  • MA7 on word order, valency, relative clauses, and questions (a bit).

Backburner

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