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Are you interested in helping to preserve or revive an endangered or minority writing system, or to promote threatened scripts in general? I am launching the Script Keepers Network. For details, see endangeredalphabets.com/2025/02/26/l...

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Did a wonderful interview with MJ Pankey of the Save Ancient Studies Alliance about my book Writing Beyond Writing and the work of the Endangered Alphabets Project. You can find it at youtu.be/s54JxQf8Xt4 . Many thanks to MJ for her great questions!

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Research question--please RT to friends and colleagues. I know of several people who do automatic writing, and they all do it by hand. Does anyone know of anyone who does automatic writing using a keyboard???

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What is everyone playing on a winter evening with 15 inches of fresh snow outside and a high wind warning? Why, Glagolitic Poker, of course!

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At the Writing Beyond Writing Book Club, at noon ET on Sunday, Feb 16, Pippa Steele will ask "What gives writing a sense of direction?" Up, down, left, right, spirals, non-linear.... We will rock, and we will roll. Join us! Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/02/03/d...

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Good news: the World Endangered Writing Day talks and discussions, with cutting-edge insights into the nature of writing and the crisis in script loss, are now up at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis.... Watch, like, subscribe, and send your comments and questions back in return!

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Thanks so much for buying it! If anything occurs to you that you'd like to chat about, I'm here!

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At the Writing Beyond Writing Book Club, at noon ET on Sunday, Feb 16, Pippa Steele will ask "What gives writing a sense of direction?" Up, down, left, right, spirals, non-linear.... We will rock, and we will roll. Join us! Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/02/03/d...

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I (Pippa) am honoured to be a guest speaker at @timbrookes.bsky.social 's wonderful discussion group on 16th February! I'll be sharing my new research, rapidly turning into a cross-cultural study of direction and layout in writing around the world, from ancient times to the modern day.

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No, it's not Hangul/Korean. What is it? Another fun quiz brought to you by the Endangered Alphabets. endangeredalphabets.com.

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Does anyone know anything about supposed Miao writing unearthed in Hunan?

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No exaggeration! Every word the truth!

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For those interested in this kind of thing, check out my regular discussion group at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/02/03/d...

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@tvwritersvault.bsky.social Looking for a totally undiscovered documentary field? Visually fascinating, global in scope, urgent in timeline? I have two words for you: endangered alphabets. Check out endangeredalphabets.com and endangeredalphabets.net.

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Thanks for spreading the word!

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Here's a really niche topic: is anyone here studying corrections in medieval manuscripts? Purpose, style, technique, theory? Please contact me and be ready to geek out.

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Thanks to all who made World Endangered Writing Day 2025 a huge success. I've just sent out the awards to those who deserve recognition for their work in preserving or reviving their traditional scripts. Check them out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/01/22/w... and offer your support!

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World Endangered Writing Day is here, and live events start in half an hour, at 0800 ET. Check it all out and register for free at endangeredwriting.world/events. Hope to see you at some point today!

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BREAKING NEWS Instead of our scheduled 3:30 p.m. World Endangered Writing Day (tomorrow) talk, we’re going to do something interactive: a workshop about the nature of writing itself. Bring pencil, pen, stylus, paper, stone, wet clay. Register at endangeredwriting.world/events!

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FREE! During World Endangered Writing Day (Jan 23) I'll be giving away copies of my book An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets by picking names from those who have registered at www.endangeredwriting.world/events. (US and Canada only, alas, because of ghastly postage costs.) Please RT!

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FREE! During World Endangered Writing Day (Jan 23) I'll be giving away copies of my book An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets by picking names from those who have registered at www.endangeredwriting.world/events. (US and Canada only, alas, because of ghastly postage costs.) Please RT!

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World Endangered Writing Day (January 23rd) will have a special focus on calligraphers who are using their art to sustain or revive their minority script or culture. Check out www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/01/19/g... and by all means send me other recommendations to add!

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Brilliant! If you have questions or thoughts you want to pursue, don't hesitate to get in touch!

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Less than a week to go before World Endangered Writing Day! (January 23rd, Thursday.) Check out the events and activities, and register (free) at www.endangeredwriting.world/events

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Are there any scholars of Arabic calligraphy available and willing to answer a couple of research questions for a book I'm writing about calligraphy?

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Finished! In folded Mongolian script (thanks to Patrick Chew) and reading from the top down: "Sky, mountains, water." Carved in curly cherry wood. Mongolian calligraphy will feature at World Endangered Writing Day on January 23rd. Register now at endangeredwriting.world/events!

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For upcoming World Endangered Writing Day (January 23rd) people are asking "How can I register for the talks?" (well, at www.endangeredwriting.world/events ) and also "What can I read to come up to speed? Glad you asked! May I suggest, with a total lack of modesty....

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Can anyone out there write in this magnificent style of #Mongolian #calligraphy?

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Writing on walls has existed for much longer than writing on paper--but it is less respected, and may even be illegal. Join us on World Endangered Writing Day when Alice Mazzilli, calligrapher and graffiti artist, interrogates writing itself. www.endangeredwriting.world/events

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Given that the book is about the nature of writing and the experience of writing, it seems to me that the best way to understand what handwriting is and why it is important--especially in a digital age--is to do it myself.

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Only three left!

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Heads up! The next ten people who register (free) for World Endangered Writing Day at endangeredwriting.world/events will receive a (free) copy of the digital edition of my groundbreaking book Writing Beyond Writing: Lessons from Endangered Alphabets. Hurry!

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Is anyone a regular on Linguistlist? If so, it would be great if you would post about World Endangered Writing Day. I could write something up, or you could take some of what I've been posting already on FB and Twitter. Any takers? www.endangeredwriting.world/events

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This is exactly right. I’ll be expanding on this on January 23rd as part of World Endangered Writing Day.

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Can a writing system be both reinvented and revived? Join me on World Endangered Writing Day, January 23rd, to hear the remarkable story of how the Amazigh people kept their script alive in the North African desert. Register free at www.endangeredwriting.world/events.

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I'm excited to announce our panel for World Endangered Writing Day! Read more in our blog post - and check out @timbrookes.bsky.social for the rest of the programme! viewsproject.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/w...

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Two remarkable scripts created for languages of Africa and South America, each new but each founded on deep cultural graphic traditions. Meet their creators at World Endangered (and Emerging) Writing Day on January 23. Register for free at www.endangeredwriting.world/events

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The full schedule of live events for World Endangered Writing Day (January 23rd) is now up at www.endangeredwriting.world/events, where you can also register for free. I hope to see you there!

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A perfect example of the questions I am exploring. Is it a letter? A syllable? A symbol? A religious icon? All of the above, really—and that makes our own notion of writing narrow, pallid, functional. For more, register for World Endangered Writing Day activities at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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I’m just going to carry on carving #folded #Mongolian #script until someone pries the gouge out of my cold dead fingers. By the way--does anyone know the origins of this script? Beyond what is in Wikipedia?

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What can you expect from World Endangered Writing Day 2025? Well, check out the groundbreaking recorded talks from WEWD 2024 at youtube.com/watch?v=oHR3... . After decades of neglect, a whole new panorama is opening up... Register for free: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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