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# Welcome to Download The New EL Font and the ASCII-note: The Font EARTH 3 and about the EL ASCII You can use EL compounded characters in an email; have fun with them. The Earth 3 has been renewed on Sep. 1st 2007 * If you have gotten the EL easy dictionary doc-file, please install this new one, but keep the former font and overlay typing tool. You can't read the file with the new font. Various Samples of EL Usages Meditation Exercise with EL Body-signs By a combination of the power of symbols and Qi/Chi-Gong theory. this exercise would work for harmonizing your body and mind, becoming a part of nature, moving the whole body. This is easy to learn, and very effective. You need not study language for this, but probably you would naturally memorize and enjoy some of EL symbols too, through your body and heart. Contents Introduction, The Ocean, Tree, The Sun, Rain (started: October 18, 2007) Wind, Earth, Cloud, Happy and Gratitude (added: November 15, 2007) The Moon (January 27, 2008) New EL Symbols for Vision improvement If you feel your optic nerve strain or dry eyes and would like to improve your vision, this link might help you. Contents through Yoshiko's experiments and experiences: Happy labels between eyebrows (May 16, 2009) For natural blinking (May 23, 2009) Sunning exercise (May 31, 2009) Resting eyes in darkness (June 10, 2009) Training Peripheral Vision (June 22, 2009) Sense of movement (July 31, 2009) Monthly Poem and Pictograph in EL Sorry for skipping this series for months, but it returned for this January. Please enjoy haiku by Dhugal J Lindsay (an Australian in Japan), "flying fish.". (: I/me, : life) Back Issues of Monthly Poem and Pictograph Enjoy various feelings from many cultures in the globe. This section introduces a short poem/haiku/story in English, Japanese and EL with an EL pictograph, Since February 1999) Japanese Soil produced Haiku culture and Global-haiku - extra essay  commemorating the tenth birthday of the EL poem section - by hoo (February 20, 2009) Guess what through those Illustrations : Play here with children! EL fundamental characters are like simplified pictures. (uploaded on 06, 01,'99) Archives of Mini Topics in EL and English with photos: Please enjoy the back number issues to see what EL writings are like. President Obama's Inaugural Address is partially translated into EL (January 26, 2009) EL translation of the Babel story from the Holy Bible (Nov.2005) The History of EL since 1988 The Links Relating to EL Thanks for the cooperation! (The people, who have helped EL) The Bibliography The books from which the author learned or used for building the EL system are mostly in Japanese. About the EL Founder and the editor of this site: Yoshiko McFarland and the Background of EL (Living in San Francisco, CA, USA) Yoshiko's Batik Works (1975-86): There are some images of the ancient Japan. Searching the world connected to bring her inspiration of Earth Language later. You'll see some of her commissioned works too. Peace Butterflies Project : butterfly Using this kind of picture-like EL symbols, wouldn't you like to enjoy your creation? Here are some samples used old memorial fabrics. Donations are welcome; You can get a peace butterfly or butterflies by your donation or voluntary cooperation.

About Earth Language (EL) Earth Language as a method for Global Change (The point of EL: written on March 2009) The General Introduction of the EL System For overview the system, start from here. What is Earth Language? The principles to develop EL (11,30, 2003) Here explains why English shouldn't be the common universal language. The comparison between the primitive world, the common English world and the world with EL Old Version of 'What is EL?','The aims and works' (published on '92, April 27,'01 revised) Evolved Language About the concept of the new global communication method What you can do now with EL EL has many approaches to start. Even if you knew about EL just today, you can use and enjoy EL a little right now. Please choose what you'd like to do from here. (October, 2008) # EL was submitted to a Google project 10 to the 100. But the idea of the net to build EL dictionary together was not chosen for the project. (the end of September, 2009) I'm sorry, but since more than 15,4000 ideas were submitted, it had to be much simpler idea to be chosen by them. Footnote about history of various human communication ways How does the EL System work? (Most pages in this section are revised on June 2005) Many general vocabularies are created by combining the meanings of two or more basic symbols. Why EL is based on visual symbols The total of the EL bases The way to increase symbols out of only 70bases The EL ideograms It's easy and fun to learn, using your own mother language The EL grammar and the method for organizing information You can record and send messages, in the free sequence; also there are rational ways for abbreviation and organizing information. The EL phonetics You can write any human-mouth-made sounds by this way. (Renewed: May 2005) The EL multi-method system Using the same memory, you can communicate with others by hand-signs, gestures, eye ball signs and vocally as well. Examples for EL communications with signs and characters (explanation in English and Japanese) The EL Main Dictionary Play with Symbols, and come join us to create more.   Newer # Illustrated Dictionary: Please have fun learning EL like riddles. Most main words in EL are expressed with a single symbol. Enjoy using some of them in your daily life. Preface note for naming things and Classification of living things (since June 29,2007) Human Body Features (since March 6th, 2007) Primates (since June 10th, 2007) Mammals (since June 29, 2007 and it's going to grow more). Insects (since July 11, 2007) Direction, Location, and shapes  The main six directions / in and out / Four directions and seasons (New January 21, 2009) Printable text sheets to learn EL (start: Feb. 1st, last update: March 6th, 2007) Here you can download the following text sheets: [160 Traveler's Conversations] in EL, English, Japanese, German and Esperanto; also partly in Italian and Noxiro. [Dictionaries about body features and the concepts related to them] Also you can download the EL introduction leaflet and Undoing the Tower of Babel from here. Have fun sharing EL with your friends.

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