For the next few weeks I am going to collect here on this blog my main touchstones for the story of communication. From survival sounds, pleasure and pain cries, hand gestures, body language, singing Neanderthals, the classical civilisations, religion, old, middle and modern English, English, our planet’s 7000 or so...

Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations,...

Hello World We made it! We are early birds alright. We have one tongue; we have one coin We are beginning to see the light....

Hermes Humans: A Novel Novel by Everybody is set to launch on December 21, 2026. This novel novel snags together a tapestry of tales woven from the collective minds and hearts of humans who want their story to be linked to loved ones and logged on the Internet forever....

The Emoji Alphabet: A Simple and Sensible System for the Universal Visual Language 1 Imagine a world where letters and words are fun, meaningful and easy to learn based on all our senses, especially our visual ones. 2 And everyone else in the whole wide world automatically understands the...