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Hawaiian Language Imprints

By: Bernice Judd

... perhaps the most remarkable feature of the story is that the missionaries began their printing activities even before they had settled on a standard alphabet and orthography for the hitherto unwritten Hawaiian language. The members of the Sandwich Islands Mission sent from Boston by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions had arrived at Kawaihae armed wit...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ate warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of kn... ...wer and wealth to a growing literate populace. CHAPTER 5 The alphabet made the pen mightier than the sword. It generated powers of know... ...rching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, the alphabet was ―the world‘s greatest invention.‖ What made the switch from ... ...made the switch from pictographic writing‘s shape symbols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabe... ...oubt much easier to master than hundreds of pictographs. In addition, the alphabet freed scribes from spending most of their time dealing with picto... ...ealing with pictograph script‘s growing complexities Nevertheless, the alphabet rises to true greatness mostly because it gives us an eye for an ... ...It forces us to match each letter with a sound and vice versa. Meaningless alphabetic symbols correspond with otherwise meaningless sounds. In or... ...of the most ingenious ever devised by man. In his illuminating book The Alphabet Effect, Robert K. Logan notes that every time a word is written, ... ...k centuries to develop the system that replaced symbols of shape with the alphabet‘s symbols of sound. For millennia, most historians tended to cr...

...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and the...

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