If you could design your writing system (let's say for writing English to keep things simple), what would it be like?

I suspect everyone reading this will be most familiar with the Latin alphabet, as is standardly used to write English. But this script wasn't developed for English, as I'm sure you know - it came from Phoenician, via Greek (through ( Read more... )

So what do you think the plural of 'caveat' should be then? Caveats? Caveant ( Read more... )

( My answers to the Dialect Meme )

Some things annoy me, you might have noticed this. First today there's the 'How Stupid Are You?' Facebook application, which told me this:

You're an idiot! The word "idiot" is derived from a Latin word meaning "uneducated", and that's most likely what you are. But hey, some of the richest, most powerful people in history have been idiots... and ( Read more... )

Several different things have made me think about regional accents recently. Specifically, the kudos that seems to be attached to not having one ( Read more... )

Watched Primeval last night. I love it, personally. But I have to admit, the acting is very uneven, the script is often bad, and the CGI is absolutely terrible. However, it's saved by having a reasonable plot, by the fact that Douglas Henshall is a wonderful actor, by Connor being sweet and geeky, by Claudia/Jenny being hot... and by Robin Hood and ( Read more... )

This is an important poll. I think it would do the world some good to fill it out and think about these options. Seriously. So please join in the experiment and slake my curiosity.

Notes to the Poll ( Read more... )