Comments on: Will the Internet Create a Universal Writing System? http://blog.oup.com/2009/08/universal-writing-system/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » What has become of genius? http://blog.oup.com/2009/08/universal-writing-system/comment-page-1/#comment-168398 OUPblog » Blog Archive » What has become of genius? Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:34:39 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5283#comment-168398 [...] Genius is not a myth, and it is worthy of our aspirations. But it comes at a cost to the individual—expressed in the ten-year rule—that most of us are unable or unwilling to pay. There are no short-cuts to becoming a genius. The breakthroughs achieved by geniuses did not involve magic or miracles. They were the work of human grit, not the product of superhuman grace. From this truth about genius we can surely derive both strength and stimulus for our own life and work—if we sincerely desire to. Andrew Robinson was Literary Editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement from 1994-2006. His latest book is Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs. He has written many other books including biographies of Albert Einstein, the film director Satyajit Ray, the writer Rabindranath Tagore, and the archaeologist Michael Ventris. He is also the author of Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction, and his Very Short Introduction to Genius is forthcoming in Spring 2011. You can read his previous OUPblog post here. [...] [...] Genius is not a myth, and it is worthy of our aspirations. But it comes at a cost to the individual—expressed in the ten-year rule—that most of us are unable or unwilling to pay. There are no short-cuts to becoming a genius. The breakthroughs achieved by geniuses did not involve magic or miracles. They were the work of human grit, not the product of superhuman grace. From this truth about genius we can surely derive both strength and stimulus for our own life and work—if we sincerely desire to. Andrew Robinson was Literary Editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement from 1994-2006. His latest book is Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs. He has written many other books including biographies of Albert Einstein, the film director Satyajit Ray, the writer Rabindranath Tagore, and the archaeologist Michael Ventris. He is also the author of Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction, and his Very Short Introduction to Genius is forthcoming in Spring 2011. You can read his previous OUPblog post here. [...]

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]]> By: Brian Barker http://blog.oup.com/2009/08/universal-writing-system/comment-page-1/#comment-152997 Brian Barker Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:09:02 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5283#comment-152997 I think that a prerequisite for a Universal Writing System should an international language. Your readers may be interested the following video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670 A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.esperanto.net I think that a prerequisite for a Universal Writing System should an international language.

Your readers may be interested the following video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.esperanto.net

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