Castithan was a lot of fun to build and flesh out. I still like it, even though it isn’t up to my current standards.

Next week, we’re going to have 8 presentations on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday! To help us remember, here’s our schedule thus far:

Monday
Dash, Raizada

Tuesday
Kiana, Phoebe

Wednesday
Cooper, Flor, Jaron, Rachel

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• Class Slides
• Aditya’s Presentation
• Anthony’s Presentation
• Scott’s Presentation

Links

• David Peterson “The Evolution of the Castithan Writing System”
• Some Memrise Thing on Castithan, I Guess?

Assignments

Reading

• (None Today)

Practice

• Share one of your words in our #orthography channel! You can just write it by hand and upload a picture, then add in text on Slack how the word is pronounced, and what it means. (Note: The word you share should be at least two syllables long. No adpositions, clitics, or particles!)

Mastery

• MA10: the orthography of your language

Backburner

• Keep thinking about and working on your final project.

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

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• Class Slides
• Fatima’s Slides

Links

• Tamil Script
• Tibetan Script
• Evolution of the Phoenician Script to Various Others
• David Peterson “The Ol’ Dead Consonant Trick”

Assignments

Reading

• AoLI Chapter 4, pp. 247-258

Practice

• (None Today)

Mastery

• MA9 on orthography and spelling.

Backburner

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

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

PDFs

• Class Slides
• Trent Pehrson’s Presentation

Links

• Trent Pehrson’s Website

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.

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

Material From Today’s Class

PDFs

• Class Slides

Links

• Kevin Larson “The Science of Word Recognition”
• Omniglot

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

• Start taking a look at MA9, due Thursday.
• Check out your last major Mastery Assignment, due next Monday.
• Keep thinking about and working on your final project.