{"id":487,"date":"2020-08-16T22:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/?p=487"},"modified":"2020-08-16T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:17:54","slug":"the-blissymbol-alphabet-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/uncategorized\/the-blissymbol-alphabet-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blissymbol Alphabet Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Blissymbol Alphabet Song was written by me in the early eighties to help Bliss instructors and students look up symbols by their Bliss alphabet components and determine their meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first authorized vocabulary of 1400 Blissymbols was published in \u201cBlissymbols for Use\u201d (Hehner, 1980). We now have over 6,000 Bliss-words in our BCI Authorized Vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-492\" width=\"262\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Blissymbols-for-UseJPG-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this 1980 publication, learners could look up symbols in three ways:                                          (1) their English gloss,                                                                                                                                                 (2) the semantic category to which the symbol belonged                                                                      (3) their Bliss alphabet \u201cspelling\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having an alphabet song, helped make the ordering of the symbols memorable.              Today, this same ordering is used in drawing symbols by those using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blissonline.se\">www.blissonline.se<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I invite anyone who would like to sing the alphabet song and totally master \u201cisosceles triangle\u201d to contact me for a zoom session recording! I would be happy to add an additional performance to this entry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Blissymbol Alphabet Song\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eqWpDkkZioU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was sung at Bliss Workshops around the world by enthusiastic groups of Bliss instructors. I have a memory of one rendition on the steps of a large railway station. I don&#8217;t remember the city! Our last effort was in St. Catherines, Ontario, at Brock University in 2016. Not many of us remained who remembered the 80&#8217;s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blissymbol Alphabet Song was written by me in the early eighties to help Bliss instructors and students look up symbols by their Bliss alphabet components and determine their meaning. The first authorized vocabulary of 1400 Blissymbols was published in \u201cBlissymbols for Use\u201d (Hehner, 1980). We now have over 6,000 Bliss-words in our BCI Authorized &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/uncategorized\/the-blissymbol-alphabet-song\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Blissymbol Alphabet Song&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blissymbolics.ca\/w532\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}