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Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings

From:Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 3:44
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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