Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2006
You may have heard about Engrish.com, the site that tracks amusing abuses of the English language in Japan (“Let’s happy and feel the lucky!”). But what about the view from the other side? Are Americans abusing Asian languages by any chance? Yes they are, and whereas Japanese have a knack for zany T-shirts and signs, [...]
Posted in Elvish on Jan 2nd, 2004
There has been such an enthusiastic response to my entry last summer on Elvish writing (i.e. The Return of the King just came out) that I am opening a side business in Elvish calligraphy. There is brisk business to be done in Elvish tattoos these days. If you want something written in Elvish, whether for [...]
Posted in Elvish on Aug 14th, 2003
I was a serious Tolkien geek as a boy. Around sixth grade I taught myself the Elvish writing that Tolkien invented for the Lord of the Rings. In fact, he created both a language and a character set; these characters, you may recall, decorate the One Ring. If you don’t mess with the actual Elvish [...]
