Academic Use Case #1
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 10:22 am
Recently some questions have arisen as to the sort of use academics (at Universities and so on) can put LiveCode to.
Although I am not currently affiliated to a university I have used LiveCode for a few academic uses, one of which is as follows:
BENGALI WRITING
Bengali is generally written in its own script which is a descendent of Brahmi script via demotic forms of Devanagari script, and as a result features a large lexicon of conjunct consonants.
A friend of mine who teaches Bengali at University asked me to design a flashcard program for students to memorise Bengali conjunct consonants.
As I had only got about a quarter of the way through this:
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before I got badly demotivated, and that book is pretty sketchy re Bengali conjuncts, I decided to shop around, and eventually
ended up here:
https://omniglot.com/writing/bengali_conj.htm
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Although I am not currently affiliated to a university I have used LiveCode for a few academic uses, one of which is as follows:
BENGALI WRITING
Bengali is generally written in its own script which is a descendent of Brahmi script via demotic forms of Devanagari script, and as a result features a large lexicon of conjunct consonants.
A friend of mine who teaches Bengali at University asked me to design a flashcard program for students to memorise Bengali conjunct consonants.
As I had only got about a quarter of the way through this:
- -
before I got badly demotivated, and that book is pretty sketchy re Bengali conjuncts, I decided to shop around, and eventually
ended up here:
https://omniglot.com/writing/bengali_conj.htm
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