Blissymbolics Resources

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Blissymbolics Communication International
Blissymbolics is a symbolic, graphical language that is currently composed of over 3,000 symbols. Bliss-characters can be combined and recombined in endless ways to create new symbols. Bliss-words can be sequenced to form many types of sentences, and express many grammatical capabilities. Simple shapes are used to keep the symbols easy and fast to draw.
www.blissymbolics.org/
The fundamental rules of Blissymbolics (PDF) Blissymbolics Language: Online Nexus

CHARLES was born Karl Kasiel Blitz in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, a mixture of peoples where, as he wrote in 1965, “20 different nationalities hated each other, mainly because they spoke and thought in different languages.” In the year of Charles’ birth, the Emperor, Franz Joseph I, was in his 49th year on the throne, Johannes Brahms died, and Gustav Mahler became director of the Vienna Opera. Anton Bruckner had died the year before, and the year after saw the pointless fatal stabbing by an Italian anarchist of the Empress Elisabeth while she was sightseeing in Geneva, Switzerland, on 10th September, 1898.

The languages Charles heard all around him were not logical at all, and by the time he was in high school, he says, he refused to learn the unruly rules of languages, and he refused to differentiate between the relative, indefinite, intensive, reflective or reciprocal pronoun. He would not believe that children must be tortured with such illogical matters. By this time Charles had been impressed by two wonderful logical languages expressed in the symbols of mathematics and chemistry which could be read by anyone no matter what their mother-tongue might be.

Bliss as Linguistic Bridge around the World

What can stabilize (opposite of change) Blissymbolics across barriers of language?

How can (we) teach Blissymbolics to every language group?

Bliss Tool
With BlissTool you can now chat with anybody in the world regardless of their native language. This webmaster has not tried this software, if anyone has, could you tell me about your experience with it?
membres.lycos.fr/jfbouzereau/BLISS/bliss0.html

Blissymbolics Bibliography
The Blissymbols Picture Book, The Book to the Film 'Mr. Symbol Man', The Book of Sincere Critiques, International Semantography, The Invention and Discovery that will Change Our Lives, Julian Huxley and Semantography, and more.
www.crockford.com/bliss/blissbib.html

Blissymbols at Omniglot
Blissymbolics were developed by Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985). Bliss originally called his invention "Semantography" and intended for it to be used as a universal written language which would enable speakers of different languages to commuicate with one another.
www.omniglot.com/writing/blissymbolics.htm

Blissymbols - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blissymbolics or Blissymbols were conceived of as an ideographic writing system consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. Blissymbols differ from all the world's major writing systems in that the characters do not directly correspond to the sounds of any spoken language.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbolics

HANDICOM: Bliss for Windows Software
International homepage of Handicom, manufacturer of software for handicapped, such as Bliss for Windows and Symbol for Windows.
www.handicom.nl/

Muter 1986, Blissymbolics, Cognition, and the Handicapped
Advantages and disadvantages of alphabetic and logographic writing systems are discussed, with particular emphasis on Blissymbolics as an example of a logographic system.
www.psych.utoronto.ca/~muter/Abs1986a.htm

One Writing for One World
The great Leibnitz dreamed 300 years ago that someone will some day invent a Universal Symbolism, a simple system of pictorial symbols which could be read (like 1 + 2 = 3) in all languages -- without translation.
www.grun.is/blysberi/handbok/01-yfirlit/semo.shtml

Online Blissword Dictionary
Blissymbolics is a semantic based graphic language developed by Charles K. Bliss. Search the dictionary of Bliss-words and learn more about the Bliss language.
www.blisswords.co.uk/

Papers of Charles Bliss (1897-1985)
The papers of Charles Bliss were acquired by the Library, initially from Bliss and, following his death, from his executor and the State Library of New South Wales.
www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/3884.html

ThinkForums Open Discussion
We should upgrade the world's writing systems to a universal standard so as to eliminate the written language barrier that divides the linguistic communities of the world. Heterogenious writing systems are an artificial barrier that should and can be overcome.
www.thinkblog.org/forums/

My Blissymbolics Photo Album
www.blissymbolics.us/album/

Non-English Bliss Websites

Bliss-melodi
jag ville nå ut ur mitt stängda rum.
www.blisspost.org/song/naa-ut.htm

Die Sprache der Nicht-Sprechenden
Karl Blitz wurde im Jahr 1897 in Czernowitz geboren, studierte in Wien und erlangte dort den Abschluß eines Chemie-Ingenieurs. Als Jude wurde er 1938 im KZ Dachau und später im KZ Buchenwald interniert.
www.uni-kl.de/FB-SoWi/LS-Zink/BLISS/article.html

PAPUNET - BLISSKIELI - ETUSIVU - UUTTA
Fascinating Experience reading this site. As a reader of only engish and blissymbolics it was a cool experience to find a site where I really NEED the blissymbols to know what they're saying! Interlingua!
www.papunet.net/bliss/

Välkommen till Blisspost-projektet!
I BLISS-post-projektet vill vi hjälpa till att göra det möjligt för unga BLISS-användare att skicka E-post-brev och skapa WEB-sidor med sina Blissymboler.
www.blisspost.org/index2.html