Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings
| From: | Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 3:44 |
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:53:22 -0800
Bob Greenwade <bob.greenwade@...> wrote:
> At 02:47 AM 1/10/02 +0000, Stephen Mulraney wrote:
> > > I strongly suggest that you deny yourself not one minute longer
> > > the pleasure of inventing your own language.
> >
> >Come, come... let us not be hasty now... ;)
>
> Go ahead. *Be* hasty! :-]
Oh yeah... I never thought of that! At the moment I'm reading a book on
phonetics (Catford) and about to start Bynon's Historical Linguistics,
which looks like fun; while in the meantime trying to conceive of
the right look for a script - maybe a cursive-like script like arabic,
which doesn't seem that hard to design (my current draft looks like
arabic when written and cyrillic when typed ;) thanks to diverent evolution
from the primitive forms.) But what I really want is a 'combinatoric'
script like JRRT's tengwar - one which is based on a recurring graphical
motif - e.g. stems and loops. But as much as I stretch my brains, I can't
quite imagine one that would look as nice as the tengwar. ;(
It's very distracting; I really should be learning quantum mechanics and
looking for a job (unrelated activities, I should say...)
Stephen Mulraney
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