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The palm tree that led to Palmyra
Palmyrene is an alphabet that was used to write Aramaic in 300–100 BCE, and I learnt about it while looking for a palm tree emoji.
Storing language vocabulary as a graph
Experimenting with a way to store words and phrases that highlights the connections between them.
Ten braille facts / ⠼⠁⠚⠀⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑⠀⠋⠁⠉⠞⠎
Where does braille come from? How was braille originally written? What can you write in braille today? And more.
Reading a Chinese dictionary / 读一本中文字典
Although paper dictionaries are mostly a thing of the past, knowing how to use a Chinese dictionary helps me learn the rest of the language.