Comments on: Labor Pains http://jeanburman.com/2009/08/09/841/ Artist Writer Curious Dreamer Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jean Burman http://jeanburman.com/2009/08/09/841/comment-page-1/#comment-7968 Jean Burman Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:36:12 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/?p=841#comment-7968 Great idea John! And there's plenty of inspiration around with all the buzz words and new usage turning up in the spin generated by the media. It's a brave new world for words. I was talking to someone the other day about Pitman shorthand. Shorthand was a language not dissimilar to hieroglyphics except that the symbols didn't represent "things" so much as learned meanings for "sounds". I guess it has it's basis in phonetics more than anything. It's a bit like a foreign language and must get stored in the brain in a similar way. I learned shorthand back in school and for some strange reason it has never left me. A bit like learning to ride a bike. Sometimes when I'm really really tired and someone is talking to me I find myself writing what they're saying in my head. Certifiable I know... but it only happens sometimes! (((chuckles))) Great idea John! And there’s plenty of inspiration around with all the buzz words and new usage turning up in the spin generated by the media. It’s a brave new world for words.

I was talking to someone the other day about Pitman shorthand. Shorthand was a language not dissimilar to hieroglyphics except that the symbols didn’t represent “things” so much as learned meanings for “sounds”. I guess it has it’s basis in phonetics more than anything. It’s a bit like a foreign language and must get stored in the brain in a similar way. I learned shorthand back in school and for some strange reason it has never left me. A bit like learning to ride a bike. Sometimes when I’m really really tired and someone is talking to me I find myself writing what they’re saying in my head. Certifiable I know… but it only happens sometimes! (((chuckles)))

]]> By: John Crowther http://jeanburman.com/2009/08/09/841/comment-page-1/#comment-7964 John Crowther Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:39:16 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/?p=841#comment-7964 I'm totally in favor of hieroglyphics. In fact, I think we should each have the option of making up our own written language. Indeed, I think I'll start working on it. Good idea for a book, don't you think, Jean, an entirely new kind of alphabet book. I’m totally in favor of hieroglyphics. In fact, I think we should each have the option of making up our own written language. Indeed, I think I’ll start working on it. Good idea for a book, don’t you think, Jean, an entirely new kind of alphabet book.

]]> By: Jean Burman http://jeanburman.com/2009/08/09/841/comment-page-1/#comment-7955 Jean Burman Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:49:55 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/?p=841#comment-7955 Thanks John :-) Decipherage! What a great word that is! Sorry the spell checker won't have a bar of it though... the thing has no sense of humour. LOL But some words really rankle don't they? I guess we have to accept that language is in a constant state of flux just like the rest of us. Grin. Misuse of YOUR probably causes the most grief for me (which I'm sure [your] already aware of) but there are words creeping in from all over the place misspelled... mispronounced... and misused. If SMS speak keeps up we'll be back to hieroglyphics in no time! Bring on the modern day Rosetta Stone... (which of course was the [last word] in decipherment of the previously undecipherable) (((chuckles))) Thanks John :-)

Decipherage! What a great word that is! Sorry the spell checker won’t have a bar of it though… the thing has no sense of humour. LOL But some words really rankle don’t they? I guess we have to accept that language is in a constant state of flux just like the rest of us. Grin. Misuse of YOUR probably causes the most grief for me (which I’m sure [your] already aware of) but there are words creeping in from all over the place misspelled… mispronounced… and misused. If SMS speak keeps up we’ll be back to hieroglyphics in no time! Bring on the modern day Rosetta Stone… (which of course was the [last word] in decipherment of the previously undecipherable) (((chuckles)))

]]> By: John Crowther http://jeanburman.com/2009/08/09/841/comment-page-1/#comment-7948 John Crowther Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:45:43 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/?p=841#comment-7948 I love it, Jean! Decipherment? I guess now I have to stop using decipherage (which your spell checker objects to). I love it, Jean!

Decipherment? I guess now I have to stop using decipherage (which your spell checker objects to).

]]> By: Jean Burman http://jeanburman.com/2009/08/09/841/comment-page-1/#comment-7917 Jean Burman Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:35:02 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/?p=841#comment-7917 Thanks so much AG :-) Great to see you here… are you back from the US book tour yet? Would love to have coffee sometime and hear all about it. Sounds like it’s all happening yay! Thanks so much AG :-)

Great to see you here… are you back from the US book tour yet? Would love to have coffee sometime and hear all about it. Sounds like it’s all happening yay!

]]> By: Andrew Griffiths http://jeanburman.com/2009/08/09/841/comment-page-1/#comment-7915 Andrew Griffiths Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:25:38 +0000 http://jeanburman.com/?p=841#comment-7915 That is fantastic Jean - I hope the El Premiero gets a copy!!!! Loving your artwork - and your blog. Nice to see such beautiful pics of you as well. We must try and catch up sometime soon for a coffee and a chin wag. Lots happening in this little world. Cheers for now, Andrew X That is fantastic Jean – I hope the El Premiero gets a copy!!!! Loving your artwork – and your blog. Nice to see such beautiful pics of you as well. We must try and catch up sometime soon for a coffee and a chin wag. Lots happening in this little world.

Cheers for now,
Andrew
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