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Welcome to nowhere special
Languages

Welcome to nowhere special

...alphabet shall be both in the national language and in the form of a transliteration into the Latin alphabet reproducing as closely as possible the pronunciation in the national language.” As more and more countries have become signatories mono-script directional signage outside the Latin-script world have largely become a thing of the past. In fact, it is not only...
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About OpenLearn Wales
OpenLearn Cymru Wales

About OpenLearn Wales

...alphabetically, by date or by popularity using the drop-down menu at the top. Many resources have been developed by The Open University in Wales in partnership with a range of experts and organisations. We are grateful to all of our contributors and partners who have worked to make OpenLearn Wales possible. OpenLearn Wales is free. There's no catch... OpenLearn Wales does...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...alphabetic writing systems, which allow an infinite number of words to be written from finite means (the 26 letters of the English alphabet, for example), there are a limited number of emoji ‘words’. This means that if you want to express anything that falls outside the current range, you need to adapt or combine the resources available to you in the best way you can....
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...alphabet, Young was experimenting with the diffraction of light by narrow apertures and the interference of light due to reflection by thin films. His observations of coloured fringes in these experiments demonstrated that light must travel from place to place in the form of a wave, and the different colours comprising white light could be characterized by different...
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Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...alphabetic designations (for example AABA), and visual diagrams. It also considers how the form of a song works with its lyrics to create meaning...This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. It looks at three strategies for communicating form – through the use of specialist terms (such as ‘chorus’ and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Understanding Classical terms
History & The Arts

Understanding Classical terms

...alphabet. At the OU we generally use ‘Latinised’ spelling (eg ‘c’ rather than ‘k’, ‘ae’ rather than ‘ai’) and the more familiar English names where possible (Achilles not Akhilleus, Athens not Athenae). The important thing is to be consistent. We sometimes use Greek or Latin terms, usually because there is no exact English equivalent. For example, the...
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Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...alphabetical signal system using pairs of torches, but this doesn't seem to have been widely adopted (the Ancient Greeks were clearly too clever for their contemporaries!). Indeed, it wasn't until the late-18th century that a communications network widely regarded as the precursor to the electrical telegraph came into being. Claude Chappe devised a system of semaphore...
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Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...alphabet was largely unknown on the continents of Africa, the Americas and Asia. But thanks to the colonialism, the Latin alphabet is now the norm in many countries. Much less is known about the original scripts of the languages of these parts of the world. Fortunately, scholars have studied and documented some of these languages and writing systems, and their work allows...
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