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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Verrry nice, I'd get that!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Imran]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Very cunning. I'm sure the linguists will be thrilled.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TwoSixMike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Dang. Beat me to "cunning" by two minutes...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[benahad]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:18AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Cunning and graphic indeed. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ah-palin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 22nd 2009 6:31AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thats pretty cool. I really have a soft spot for calligraphy after I learned the basics in high school. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ghen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:16AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[It'll be good once multi-touchscreens have a high enough resolution and sensitivity to use a REAL brush without ink, and draw where the brush bristles touch.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[superhobo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[can it do Khat? It's one of the most complex calligraphy in the world.<br><br><a href="http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/4/18/lifeliving/3610404&sec=lifeliving" rel="nofollow">http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2009/4/18/lifeliving/3610404&sec=lifeliving</a><br><br>“An Arabic letter is beautiful on its own, and when it is turned into khat, there is another level of beauty. You don’t have to be a Muslim or an Arabic expert to enjoy the art. Picasso saw the khat of a master calligrapher and cried: ‘This is art!’<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jaber]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[no]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bungsana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 6:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[there was article that i read awhile ago that art is forbidden in islam... t/f?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[xconan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[there's an iphone app that already does this for the chinese written language. it's called iChinese, and is very well done]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[My wife is a linguist (yes, a cunning one, sometimes) and she is constantly annoyed (as am I) at the misattributions the public at large give to the field.  I assure you, this device may be helpful to someone out there, but not linguists, who are interested in the technical artifacts of spoken language, not written.  That is the domain of - I don't know, scribes?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[indigentia]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 9:57AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think the word is "calligraphers."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dennis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 10:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[I believe the word you are looking for is "writists". Or "writerers".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kevjohn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 11:05AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[You're thinking of "fellaters"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chief]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 11:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is it waterproof? Just in case you need to wash the whiteout off it when your blonde girlfriend uses it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Wettergreen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 10:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[By "linguist," don't you mean "calligrapher" or "calligraphist"?  A linguist studies languages, not necessarily Asian calligraphy, which is an extremely sophisticated art form in and of itself.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[joe23521]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 10:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's good to know that Chung Lee is doing more than just Street Fighting these days.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PJ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 10:10AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Maybe you'll be able to write with your feet?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bigcow05]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 1:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[I’m not sure the linguists would be arsed.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ucl_linguist]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 10:22AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[+1 indigentia<br>+1 joe23521<br><br>At least they didn't say linguicist ;-) That would be even more insulting!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[christianleduc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 10:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Um, how are calligraphy and linguistics related (other than highly tangentially)?<br><br>"You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means."<br><br>Now maybe if someone made a tablet with built in IPA keyboard....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Weet]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 10:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[Maltese?<br>Being one of the 400,000 Maltese citizens in the world, I'd like to put up a warning notice for anyone interested in getting this to Learn Maltese on it.<br><br>Get a life, learn something more worthwhile!  Like English, Spanish or French!<br><br>Thanks!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 11:16AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[But Slovak?  Preco Nie?!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[OLight]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 21st 2009 3:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Touchscreen calligraphy tablet concept gives linguists hope]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/touchscreen-calligraphy-tablet-concept-gives-linguists-hope/</guid><description><![CDATA[To the commenters who corrected the author's sloppy usage, thank you!  The authors usually correct themselves when they make a technical error; I hope he corrects this entry.  To the Maltese citizen who does not think his language and inherently, culture, worth learning or that those who choose to study it have no life, I disagree.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Linguistics Student]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 23rd 2009 1:03AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
