On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Apparently, there's a get-together for "crits" being organized if you're working on a font expecting to work with the language.

https://www.alphacrit.alphabettes.org/

If you know someone who's interested, feel free to pass it along.

Making a note of these links about the language around space exploration that we have right now, as well as about the language we need from now on.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/manifest-destiny-trump-space-exploration/612439/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/we-need-to-change-way-we-talk-about-space-exploration-mars/

And this is just for Anglophone humans. What about the other languages we humans are speaking, or will speak?

This punched a few nerd buttons.

https://www.voguebusiness.com/companies/fashions-struggle-with-chinese-writing

This clearly isn't for me. But if you have a friend in Ottawa-Gatineau who's fluent in Indonesian and especially in a legal context, Maxsys is looking to fill two contracts.

This is something we see regularly in TV and film work for the various SF&F genres, but an actual government commissioning such a thing seems rarer.

https://www.omniglot.com/bloggle/?p=19125

https://www.smorgasbordstudio.com/work/cymruwalestypeface/

Mainland China's probably done it to support "Simplified" Chinese in their effort to supplant older versions of the written language...

The story as reported so far is here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-official-languages-petition-1.5494939

I've said it before, and admitting that I'm descended from European immigrants up front alongside that fact, that if I had my way, every Canadian would be fluent in - at mimimum! - four languages: English, French, one Indigenous language, and one more from anywhere else on the planet. Partly as a matter of beefing up our brain-skill-set in general and partly as a matter of ethics.

Jenna Robar's proposal strikes me as perfectly in line with my thoughts, and I am inclined to see it as one more in a set of potential job-creation engines for Canada to power its future with.

And if you want a look at the petition itself?

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2453&fbclid=IwAR0Drp6vAcTQeDNQWkQ_XqUzjIHubSfkgEayElQKL4a5dO9A6h58sAUjq2w

Yes, I'm signing the petition.

"Hamsterkauf".

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-scare-when-will-hamsterkauf-become-an-english-word/a-52635400

As of this post being written, the Royal Military College is looking for a French-Second Language instructor. I suspect they wouldn't turn up their noses at people able to teach other languages either as well as or instead of French. At least not without causing themselves some discomfort.

This is what I wrote for tonight's workshop session. I told them I'd probably be posting it here, so...

( The story is after the cut... )

As regards the Report on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls:

"Everything that's printed should be in the language. We deserve to have everything done in our languages." - Patricia Ningewance, translator

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mmiwg-inquiry-translation-indigenous-languages-1.5364887