Off topic for the most part.

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

One of our younger ones enjoys writing in different styles (other then "english"/"print"). Such styles Braille, Morse Code, and is quickly learning the internet typing of Hard Core LEET (L337?). She's looking to find other such styles that she can write it in her journal. Anyone have anything creative from a website that she can also learn?

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[echoesnspectres.livejournal.com]

Tolkien's Tengwar writing system; info here (http://www.geocities.com/tengwar2001/pubs.htm) and here (http://web.comhem.se/~u86023928/at/).

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

Shorthand! I love shorthand. It looks like scribbles. I remember seeing a site with scanned pages of Gregg's Shorthand book, but I don't remember the address.

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Shorthand

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

Very cool. Thank you!

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alphabets

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

*Giggles at "Bopomofo"* ^^;;;;

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

Lol, just the name, or the actual script?

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

Just the name ^^;;

[(Anonymous)]

Haha ;-)
It is quite an interesting name.

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

*

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

LOL. Thank you. Nice list with many options. Muchly appreciated!

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

Haha, any time. :)

[linnai.livejournal.com]

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/index.htm

She might find this site interesting...

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[blindgod.livejournal.com]

Would she be interested in writing in mirror writing just as the other one use to??

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

Hi. She said yes. But she wants to use the slate and stylus to write backwards Braille instead of simply writing words in reverse order. Thank you!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Those slates are or at least used to be awfully hard to get unless you're physically blind. However, the APH once furnished our learning disabled friend with a special tape recorder for taping lectures at university.

Maybe they've gotten a bit more relaxed, as they appear to be selling slates here (http://www.aph.org/products/brlslate.htm), they have to know there are a lot of sighted Braille readers (http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_learningbraillefactshee.hcsp). (for one thing, what if you're a parent of a blind kid and you're trying to help him with his homework, or he's away at college and you want to write him a letter?)

They also sent our Children a bug card a few years ago (http://www.afb.org/braillebug/braille.asp).

The one we're used to seeing people use is the pocket version, toward the middle of that page.

A little more expensive but cute (http://www.dovesystems.com/ShowContent.php?page=braille)

Seen this? (http://brl.org/flashcards/flashcards-online/index.html)

Awwwww. (http://www.braillestone.com/welcome.html)

They ought to have primers, too. We used to use braille all the time. We used to have an old Matilda Ziegler (http://www.zieglermag.org/) magazine around here some place.

Good luck!

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

She's good with braille. We have the Perkins braille machine, the slate/stylus which our host has used, and we used to have a Braille N Speak. :)
Those links are very useful! Thank you so much for them.

[pleiades-rising.livejournal.com]

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^_^

Binary is fun too. 01011001011000010111100100100001 (http://www.adcott.net/binary/)

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

She loves leet. Especially when there's someone who writes back and forth with her in it. :) I agree it can be annoying when used in the wrong place. :) Binary is something *I* was actually interested years ago! Never learned it though, *frown!* Bookmarked the page. Thank you!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I love doing that! Always have, always will.

Omniglot (http://www.omniglot.com) has a ton, she will find things like Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Cyrillic but also less familiar ones.

There is a book called The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/063121481X/qid=1121280039/sr=8-4/ref=pd_bbs_ur_4/103-9348129-4651055?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) that has about 400 of them and the history, which I found most interesting, did you know that a lot of them did not evolve like you'd think but were deliberately invented. Sometimes as a political act by a new country to declare their independence.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs (http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/) Now this is just about as much fun as it gets. They sell a book on reading hieroglyphs (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520239490/qid=1121280542/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_ur_1/103-9348129-4651055?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) in Kai's store -- the website will give you the basic idea.

Tsolyani (http://terengo.tdonnelly.org/tsoladay.html)
Klingon (http://www.kli.org/)
Get a look at some Vulcan scripts (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vulcan_language)

Now if you're interested in languages, do you want to make up a new language or learn an existing one?
Constructed Languages (http://www.quetzal.com/conlang.html)
Kennaway's Constructed Languages List (http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html)
The Language Construction Kit (http://www.zompist.com/kit.html)
Jeffrey Henning's Langmake (http://www.langmaker.com/langmake/index.htm) We once downloaded a copy of this and put the Lauta Wordlist into it just to organize things.
Langmaker (http://www.langmaker.com/) This is the site for keeping track of them all. For writing systems look under "Neographies".

elenbarathi teaches Sindarin
ihcoyc is not on this community but he really knows his stuff, I bought him a book on Mayan hieroglyphics recently.
Last but not least ask qilora because they do this for a living. And they speak Hebrew a ton better than I do!

[mysidia-system.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Thank you so much for all the sites and resources!! She's in her glory deciding which one she wants to learn. Again, thank you so much!