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Michael Everson is a language dork! He’s a linguist, script encoder, typesetter and font designer. He codes rare and wonderful languages so that rare and wonderful people can write to each other on the computer. Cherokee, Hmong, Esperanto. I learn stuff. Tune the hell in.
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Universal Character Set
Unicode
Tahlequah
Cherokee Syllabary
Sequoyah
Durbin Feeling
Dr. Gloria Sly (no website but she has plenty of work)
Ute
Westport, Ireland
Cherokee National Holiday FB Page (why NOT?)
Franks Casket
Nicol Williamson reads The Hobbit
Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer
Enigma
Robert Hurt
St. Mesrop Armenian Alphabet
Newgrange Neolithic
Lewian Language
National Print Museum Dublin
The Charm of Making
Jaynestown
Invisible letter via Unicode
Klingon Alphabet
Star Trek Porn (just the trailer)
Model Trains ep of TDF
Mwangwego Script
Tengwar
Cirth
Quenya
Sindarin
The Hobbit in Irish
Alice in Wonderland in Scots
Carrolliana
Esperanto
Volapük
Nanjiani
Christopher Plummer Alice in Wonderland
Byron Sewell
CJ Cherryh
Credits:
Audio leveling by Patrick Brady
Music is by Mike Ruekberg
Website design by Vilmos: who has his own podcast
Apps are available with the bonus contest: iPhone or Android
Oh! And I totally second his C.J. Cherryh recommendation! Have read both the Chanur and Foreigner series multiple times (and many others). :)
http://archive.hbook.com/magazine/articles/1970s/dec71_alexander.asp
--I think I will suggest that to not read other fantasy because Tolkien Trumps All really is, at best, counterproductive. But at least it's also self-reinforcing...you'll never read other good fantasy if You Never Read Other Good Fantasy. http://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2011/10/ffb-special-beyond-and-alongside.html --essentially, Stuff Aside From Tolkien Contemporary to Him You Might Want to Look Into (written in response to a query of Jackie's) has now passed all but three of my posts in popularity, and it doesn't even have arguable cheesecake photos in it. The next most popular is sometimes fantasy writer and editor Barry Malzberg's interview with one-time fantasy and sf editor, and later bridal-guide editor and writer Cele Goldsmith Lalli (first to publish, at least professionally, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, Thomas Disch, Piers Anthony when he was still trying, and just a slew more). And, for the niggling fact of the episode, one should say the Western Nation of the Cherokee, when referring to the large group in Oklahoma...the Eastern Nation has its HQ in North Carolina. Though I'm not a member of either, I apparently could qualify, with 3 of my 16 greats being of that persuasion. (I know naught of the language, etc. Descended from the West Virginia Cherokee, who ran up into the hills with Scotch Irish so as not be forced on the Trail of Tears, and what do we do with the genocidal bastard who set that in motion? We put him on the currency we use most these days, the $20 bill. Well, Jackson had a decent Vice President to help wipe the blood off his jowls, anyway.