Zolai ABC Simbu (Tedim ABC Book)
My wife and I used Bloom by SIL and Bloom Library to create a simple ABC reader for Tedim. I created it on the basis of Tedim phonology for initials, rather than most readers which are just the English alphabet, containing letters not actually existent in Tedim phonology. The...
What to do now that Sci-Hub has stopped archiving new material?
DISCLAIMER: This article contains no legal advice. This piece is written for educational and informative purposes only. The author (Tyler Davis) is not advocating for the use of piracy to illegally obtain copyrighted works. If money is an issue, it is best to ask the author of a particular...
Pe Maung Htin’s “Missionary Burmese”
It’s with great joy that I was able to find a copy of Pe Maung Htin’s article “Missionary Burmese” from a scan of Vol. 1, Pt. 1 of The Journal of Burma Research Society (JBRS) on The Internet Archive. Since it is out of copyright (under U.S. Law), I...
Why don’t I use Twitter?
Because it's cancer....
I’m engaged!
After leaving Burma due to the military coup of 1 February 2021, I found my way back to Thailand where I suddenly met the love of my life, Ngaipi. I went back to the States shortly after meeting her. We started talking more and more online and decided to...
Thailand Pass Woes
So, I’m trying to get back into Thailand on a TR (Tourist) visa. As of November, all travelers to Thailand by air must enter Thailand using the Thailand Pass system. And there have been a lot of issues with the system since its launch on November 1st. The issues...
Don’t look to Facebook to talk to your loved ones
October 4th should be a day ingrained in everyone’s memory as the day on which Facebook demonstrated its fallibility and undependability. As I write this post, DNS servers appear to load Facebook’s site, but an error message acts as a placeholder for anything else. Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and other...
Working with diaspora populations should be acceptable in Linguistics
I began working with the Sizang language in 2014-15 and I began working on it while I was still in the United States, before I had ever actually stepped foot in Burma. I got quite a few materials from Kosei OTSUKA during a SEALS Conference in Yangon. Luckily, he...
Learn the Khmer writing system with a PDF I just OCR’d
I took the liberty of downloading Eisel Mazard’s scan of Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary, by Franklin E. Huffman, with assistance from Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert & Im Proum. After downloading, I ran it through Scan Tailor, and OCR’d it (English only, I’m afraid)....
New page: “Software”
I’ve added a new page called “Software“, which contains information and links to useful software programs I enjoy, as well as scripts that I have written to automate repetitive tasks. Please check it out....