![]() Deseret is a self-consciously phonetic script so different sounds have different characters, at least as far as you can with only thirty-eight characters. I haven?t asked Nate, but his version seems to be machine-generated. The Deseret font I use throughout is ?Zarahemla Bee,? by Joshua Erickson, available, free, here. M Scott Reynolds, The Deseret Alphabet Portal, 2010. Huchel, ? The Deseret Alphabet as an Aid in Pronouncing Book of Mormon Names,? Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 9.1 (2000): 58?59, 79. Neil Alexander Walker, ? A Complete Guide to Reading and Writing the Deseret Alphabet,? 2005.įrederick M. I couldn?t swear that any one is ?the correct one? but it is sort of historically ?authentic? that there should be more than one rendering of the same exact sentence.įor the bonus round, two more versions and some interesting reads: Above are four versions of the same idea, all at least partially plausible. People speak and hear sounds differently across time and space and written languages have different rules and norms than spoken languages. Since Deseret is phonetic I don?t have to indicate possession orthographically: I can just write it how it sounds to me.Īnd therein lies two rubs. Note that the contracted ?I?m? has no apostrophe. ![]() It?s only ?almost? because Deseret can?t quite get the indefinite article. Nate?s indefinite article (the ?a? in ?a Mormon?) matches the indefinite articles on the title page (?a remnant?) and in ?The Testimony of the Eight Witnesses? (?a surety?) in the 1869 BoM.īelow I provide two alternate renderings: Enid?s version of ?Marmon? sounds like it might have spent some time in ?Spanish Fark.? It also matches the rendering of ?Mormon? in the 1869 edition of the Book of Mormon in Deseret. I don?t know why Nate or Enid used ?I am a Mormon? rather than ?I?m a Mormon? like the marketing campaign. ![]() Notice that the texts are different, as shown below. The Garden of Enid provided the first image, on the left Nate Oman, inspired by Enid, made the one on the right, which Ardis Parshall reposted at Keepapitchinin. Further, even though I know very little about Deseret or its mechanics, these images also give me entrée to talk about two of the (many) reasons Deseret failed to catch on in Mormonism or anywhere else. The happy confluence of Mormonness and nerdiness in these images makes me happy. Lawrence Tagoe, Phillip Pane, Alexandra Mango, Lana Oransky, Meg Rye, Shikha K., Kyle Marrocco, Cassandra Cyr, Normandy Toledo, Derrick Odom, Maria Alimisis, Jen Zhang, Brittany Partello, Jeff Bruce, Jordan Cardoza (she/her), Haley Shapiro, David Gurley, Teo Zanella.In the past few days I?ve seen two different Facebook profile pictures with ?I am a Mormon? written in Deseret. Tagging a few recruiters and folks who may be currently hiring for PDs, PMs and engineers. Please reach out to me in private if needed or will resume this in January base on demand.* *UPDATE: I got booked for the next 2 months (for a tot of 24 sessions). I have blocked out 15-min sessions every day over the coming weeks to book a 1:1 session to help in reviewing portfolios, resumes, interview prep, career advice and in general job hunting morale support. My network is your network, please don't hesitate to reach out. To fellow designers, take care and stay sane. ![]() Crucial teams like Civil Rights, AI ethics and Accessibility have been axed from companies like Twitter. So many great people have been impacted at Twitter (3700 people: 50% of the staff!), Lyft (700 people), Stripe (1050 people), Chime (156 people) ~UPDATE: now even at Meta 11.000 people, 13% of the company)~ and many other tech companies. The past few days have been pretty intense for the tech industry with mass layoffs. A dreamy journey through the alphabet in English, French and Italian: Book for Trilingual Children with Illustrations for Kids (Books for Trilingual Children) □ We are also working on translating this book to other languages so in case anyone would like a version in another language we are open to talk about it. □ We started this project out of passion, frustration and love, so we sincerely hope that we can help other families like ours juggling multiple languages at the same time. It was fun to use ChatGPT to help with rhymes, AdobeFireflyAI and OpenArt AI to create beautiful and kids friendly illustrations. A dreamy journey through the alphabet in English, French and Italian’ is now available on Amazon □□ US, □□ France, □□ Italy and 10 other countries□! During our parental leave, Hocine and I were inspired by the needs and challenges of our trilingual family and decided to create our own alphabet book due to the limited educational resources available for trilingual kids.
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