Fantasy TV in the service of science: An open letter to HBO about “Dothraki”

Fantasy TV in the service of science: An open letter to HBO about “Dothraki” Editor’s note: Joshua Hartshorne is a graduate student at Harvard University’s Psychology Department interested in human behavior and language. He wrote the open letter below because HBO is currently creating a new fantasy language, called “Dothraki,” for an upcoming television adaptation […]

• Local Guard troops back from Iraq

• Local Guard troops back from Iraq By Karissa Minn kminn@salisburypost.com On the same day that Debbie Martin’s son left home for Afghanistan, her husband returned from Iraq. Sgt. 1st Class Kenny Martin came back to Salisbury on Sunday with 26 other members of the Army National Gua … Read more on The Salisbury Post […]

AG BELL -vs- Connexin 26 (ASL Tut)

Prototype prose-poetry? I visualized a basic story-line concept and then tried to freestyle-narrate using linguistic features found in ASL, fused with finger-tutting sequences. For sometime now I’ve been fascinated with the possibilities of giving finger-tutting sequences ‘explicit meaning’ through the use of ASL handshapes, movements, palm-orientation, NMS, and location. Dance is a great medium of […]