Re: Advice on script

On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 04:33 AM, SuomenkieliMaa wrote:

> To practically no avail, I've been trying to develop
> Vya:a:h's script to follow certain rules -- namely,
> must be written in "letters" of 3 as an inverted
> triangle from top-right to top-left to bottom-middle.
>
Interesting...sounds *very* vaguely like the Korean alphabet.  :-)

> Hangul, for instance, makes distinctions by adding
> spaces like Engish (not to mention, case in point,
> that Hangul words tend to be quite short).  Japanese,
>
It's true that they're quite short, but Hangul tends to put spaces
between--phrases, for lack of a better term.  (Anyone more familiar with
formal Korean can tell me about this?)  And the formal verb forms can get
a bit unwieldly.  An example:

Yun-Ha-hantae gong-uel-josseumnida.
(to Yoon Ha) (gave [a] ball)

where "to Yoon Ha" and "gave [a] ball" are run together as shown with the
dashes, except there aren't dashes in the Korean.  Where have you seen
Hangul with individual words picked out, just out of curiosity?  I have
sometimes found deciding *which* words to run together somewhat tricky,
but even I in my poor attempts have never written something like "Yun Ha
hantae gong eul josseumnida."

> dislike both methods.  I've considered placing little
> marks between words (sort of like what I've heard
> about some of the Indian langs), but that would just
> be a lot of additional meaningless writing.
>
Well, you could say that spaces between words would be a lot of additional
meaningless not-writing.  ;-)  I'm teasing.  I actually use a null
grapheme in the Czevraqis script, which actually looks rather pretty to my
eye, to indicate end-of-word...outdated sample at the left at
http://yhl.freeservers.com/conlang/corpus.html (I need to reform the
script to reflect minor changes in phonology and so on, as well as
ease-of-writing).

> As I implement a system of "top symbols" to depict the
> 4th phoneme based on rules of vowel harmony (where 4th
> phoneme would be based on 2nd phoneme) and consonant
> harmony (where 4th phoneme would be based on 3rd
> phoneme), I've also thought of having the top symbols
> be extended or transform shape to simultaneously
> indicate where a word commences & terminates.
Finial forms, like inverse capital letters (in English)?  I like that idea.
   It would be neat if they transformed in some consistent manner; OTOH
perhaps you could do Neat Philosophical/Artistic Things with them.  :-)
Or go backwards and do initial forms, or maybe even both.

Or you could just run everything together...it worked for the Romans,
right?

Sorry this isn't much help...

YHL

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