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What can emoji teach us about human civilization?
Languages

What can emoji teach us about human civilization?

...alphabetic writing. They’re adding to it. And specifically, they’re adding a way to convey what we might call ‘emotional framing’ for online conversations. In other words, they fill a particular need in modern-day communication – a need produced by the fact that social media encourages a much more conversational style of writing. When messaging each other these...
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...alphabetic representation of the molecular structure of DNA. The information is stored in the DNA as a series of letters: A, C, G, and T - that's the end product of the experiment. Each letter represents a different chemical (adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine). Like all codes, the one in DNA carries information or instructions; in this case ones that direct the...
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...alphabets, including Ukrainian. For this project the Ukrainian language pack was duly deployed to OpenLearn, but due to the high number of Moodle modifications to the platform, close work with a translator was required to ensure that platform navigation, in-course signposting, associated digital badges and certificates were also described correctly. Results A month after...
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...alphabet, which (like Greek) developed from the Phoenician alphabet when traders came there 3000 years ago. The island’s finance minister argues for a ‘reform’ in which this alphabet will be replaced by the Roman alphabet (the one used in English and many other languages). This change, she argues, will make the island’s life easier and more prosperous, with...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...alphabet and sound, and a basic understanding of the Tamil language count up to 10 in Tamil name some of the traditional musical instruments used by Tamils name some of the fruits grown in Tamil Nadu greet a person in Tamil, and say simple phrases related to numbers, musical instruments and fruits with confidence...Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course: 1 The Tamil language...
From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...alphabet, supplemented by a few Germanic runic letters to represent sounds not found in Latin e.g. þ, which represented the th sounds in thin or this. (A relic of þ survives as y in modern signs like Ye Olde Tea Shoppe.) The later Viking settlements in many parts of the British Isles also resulted in substantial borrowing of basic vocabulary: sky, get and they derive...
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...alphabet - The Roman alphabet is still very much in use today: it is the alphabet used for English and many other languages throughout the world, and it owed its original spread to the use of Latin in the western Roman empire. In classical times, the alphabet consisted of 23 letters, not our 26, as it lacked j, v and w...Getting started on classical Latin: 3.2 Learning to...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...alphabet of touch Louis Braille, the inventor of the braille system, was only a precocious 10-year-old when he entered Valentin Haüy’s pioneering school for children with a visual impairment in 1819. Haüy – a specialist in decoding manuscripts before he founded the school – had already invented a form of writing for people with a visual impairment using an...