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I am the last advocate for reducing texts, scriptures and languages to mere graphic forms. The whole dimension of the text's meaning, histories, combinations, connotations, sound and craft is disregarded. What is more problematic is that I am ignoring the power of words to move and persuade people.
After first year and my first internship, I felt slightly disillusioned and confused by what Architecture meant to me. I took a trip to Myanmar and the trip recalibrated a lot things. I found it particularly grounding and inspiring for some of the things that I want to achieve in the future.
The spatial and formal organisation of the Burmese language in signage was something I found very compelling. At least with the handwritten texts, so much thought and effort was put into crafting every character. You see pencil marks, underlays, brush strokes and outlines. There is a combination of type faces and textures to create visual impact in different programmatic contexts that I find fascinating.
The Burmese name for the round script is "ca-lonh", literally translating to "round text". There are 33 main characters in the Myanmar language. Instead of words that are formed by a combination of alphabets (like in English), this language makes use of additional vowel shift symbols, tonal change symbols and consonant modification symbols. The rounded form of the characters is a result of the use of palm laves a the traditional writing material. Straight lines and forms would tear the leaves.
By compiling this, I am exposing my status as alien and an outsider. However, the focus on the visuals may have the inverse effect of celebrating the text, for text's sake, specifically, it is celebrated as visual form and not just a sign that says "eggs", or something.
Regardless, I tried to interpret the scope of "text" in a broad but focused way - text, in its literal form, text in prayer, text in recitation, text in architectural program (the stupas of Kuthodaw Pagoda). Photos are arranged in chronological order. The journey started in Yangon, then upstream along the Ayarwaddy river, to Mandalay and Bagan, then back again to Yangon.
These photos aren't really anything special in terms of photography, and I am not going to attempt to make sweeping claims about directing a new visual order, but as a composite they attempt to represent my yearning to celebrate a culture of appreciation for the process driven intensity in text making and in the creation of form.
Students from programs offered at USG and staff from the Priddy Library made "Multilingual Story Time" at the Gaithersburg Book Festival a success! The event was organized by the director of the Priddy Library, Irene Munster.
Student volunteers read stories printed in Spanish, French, Vietnamese, Hindi, Farsi and Korean to young children and their families at the festival.
Images from the 3rd Annual Love Languages event inside the Benson Center on February 9, 2017. The annual event was sponsored by Modern Languages and Literatures Department.
(Photo credit: Joanne H. Lee/Santa Clara University)
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General, delivers his remarks at the Spanish Language Day event held at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. 23 April 2024
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Viernes 10 de noviembre. Presentación de poemas, ensayos, dramatizaciones y debates de los tres niveles académicos en castellano, inglés y portugués.
re-taking First Grade at age 44 - funny, I'm pretty sure there were only 26 letters in alphabet, not 44 (plus 32 vowels).
Happy Birthday series 58 Khmer language.
Khmer New Year in 14-16 April 2019.
We can play toy water gun in Water Sprash Festival.
I enjoy 3 times New Year :0
9th WEB PICTURE BOOK Ding-Dong
This is our language teacher. She's cool; instead of class, we went to a beerhall :D We wrote it off as a "cultural experience"
So far I know she speaks English, French, Spanish, Mandarin, and of course German.
Delegates and Member States Representatives at the Spanish Language Day event held at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. 23 April 2024
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Change the language on Huawei nova 4 : Android is a popular mobile phone operating system. Maximum mobile phone users are now using Android smart phones or tablets that come with the default user...
UNICODE 5.1.0 meets Or-Omcode∞.1.0
Unicode represents the Tower ob Babel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel In computing, Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in tandem with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 100,000 characters, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic or Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniCode
Or-Omcode∞.1.0 represents a new Universal Language de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalsprache derived within the Doctine Of Essense by
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Encoding Unicode into the Or-Omcode∞.1.0 all traditional languages become semantically transformed within the new universal language parameters. portal.or-om.org/art/UnicodemeetsOrOmCode/tabid/6319/Defa...
Urmia or (Turkish Language: اورمو, Urmu, Orumiyeh, Urmiye, Urmiya) is a city in Northwestern South Azerbaijan (Iranian Azerbaijan) and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province. The city lies on an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chaye river (City River). Urmia is the 10th populated city in iran and 2nd of Azerbaijanian Turks provinces after Tabriz. Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (Specially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown.An important town by the 9th cent. Urmia was seized by the Oghuz Turks (11th cent.), sacked by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.The name Urmia or Urmu is thought to have come from Sumerian tongue, the earliest known civilization in the world located in southern Mesopotamia. Ur was a principle Sumerian city. Some believe the name is derived from Syriac. Ur, meaning "cradle," and mia, meaning "water". Hence, Urmia, situated by a lake and surrounded by rivers, would be the cradle of water.The population of Urmia is predominantly Azerbaijanian Turks (over 90%), but with Kurdish,Assyrian and Armenian minorities.
Arabic language celebrated today as a symbol of unity and diversity
Baghdad, 18 December 2015 – Arabic, the language of religion, science and literature, was celebrated at an event organized in observation of World Arabic Language Day in the prestigious Sami Abdel Hameed Theatre located in the heart of the Al Mutanabi Street in Baghdad today, in the presence of artists, intellectuals, linguists and representatives of many national and international institutions, including the Ministry of Culture, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and UNESCO.
The event comes a week after Baghdad was designated as a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of literature. Baghdad’s designation to the list recognizes the importance of the past and present intellectual and literary life of the city.
“Among all the contributions that Arab people gave to the universal human civilization, the Arabic language reigns supreme,” said Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) Gyorgy Busztin. “Arabic is one of the major languages not only on account of the Holy Qur’an, but also on account of the role it played in building and sustaining human civilization. Much of the heritage of antiquity survived thanks to medieval Arab scholars. Their contributions in various fields form the basis of modern science, and all that came to us in the Arabic language. Arabic therefore deserves to be celebrated as a language that contributed greatly to shaping our world”, added DSRSG Busztin.
Axel Plathe, Director of UNESCO Office for Iraq described the Arabic language as a “symbol of unity in diversity as it enables millions of men and women to make their voices heard and build cultural ties beyond physical borders”. He added: “Today, we pay tribute to Arabic and the great role that it has played over hundreds of years in the flow of knowledge on so many subjects ranging from philosophy to literature, from medicine to psychology, from astronomy to mathematics.”
This year, World Arabic Language Day is dedicated to science and scientific communication. The celebration aimed at highlighting the historical role of the Arabic language in research and the dissemination of knowledge, and the importance of multilingualism for the research community today.
The celebration, also attended by the Deputy Minister of Culture included panel discussions on the intersections of the Arabic language with the sciences, poetry, calligraphy and other topics.
Al Mutanabi Street, Iraq’s literary district, is where language and literary meet and where a cultural community has flourished for years. The unique street plays a crucial role in the cultural life and the constant revival of Arabic language and literature. Dating back to the 8th century, Al Mutanabi Street was a refuge for writers and authors of all religious and ethnic backgrounds. The street was a symbol of diversity and unity, emblematic of the day’s celebration
World Arabic Language Day was established by a decision of UNESCO’s Executive Board in 2012. The initiative, proposed by Morocco and Saudi Arabia, seeks to promote multilingualism and cultural diversity, as well as celebrate Arabic language’s role in and contribution to the safeguarding and dissemination of human civilization and culture.
Photos by UNAMI PIO.
Viernes 10 de noviembre. Presentación de poemas, ensayos, dramatizaciones y debates de los tres niveles académicos en castellano, inglés y portugués.