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This interesting selection from TED-Ed about the benefits of playing musical instruments appeared in video form and I transcribed it in Centennial Gregg for the blog.
Attachment: playing-an-instrument.pdf
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Very interesting reading – thank you!
You're welcome! I liked it too.
Beautiful job. This is the first transcription I've seen of yours. You could be a plate-writer.
There's definitely vocabulary here we're never likely to see in a Gregg publication (as far as I know). It's nice to see how elegantly and read-ably these words transcribed.
Also, you probably know this but I saw at least one form that stopped as of Simplified– "includes" in very first line at the top of page 3.
Thank you! Centennial reintroduced the incl- prefix, :-).
You can check out the other transcriptions in the blog, with more elaborate vocabulary, that I started writing regularly for the blog starting in May.
Wonderful! Thank you, Carlos!
You're welcome. I'm glad people are reading these!
I can manage to read Centennial pretty well. I have a harder time with Anniversary, though.
I've just read "How playing an instrument benefits your brain" for the second time. First time, no problem. This time, no problem either, except for one word. That's on page 2, column 1, line 5:
"However, when scientists turned from observing the brains of music listeners to those of musicians, the little ??? fireworks became a jubilee."
What is that word? Backward? Barnyard? (I know it can't really be backward or barnyard; it's not spelled right to be either one.) I'm at a loss.
You're so close: you have half of "backward" correct and half of "barnyard" correct.
Uhh – barnward?
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I've never thought of "back yard" as one word. "Barnyard" and "backward" were meant to be facetious, but fortunately you found something in them to clue me correctly. Thanks!
You're welcome!
The fact that "backyard" is one word in the article, and that you wrote it b-a-k-a-rd reminded me that the ya- loop doesn't exist in S90 or Centennial. So here's a question: Suppose we wanted to write "backyard" as one word in DJS or earlier. Would you recommend separating the two parts of the compound*, thereby allowing for the ya- loop, or would you recommend using an ea (that is, a large circle with a dot)?
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* The parts could be written close together or could be joined with the usual Gregg joining mark.
Dotted circle in Simplified and DJS; reverse loop in Anniversary and earlier.