Re: Toy Alphabet

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Yes. That would mean having the same problem as the now
>infamous dyslectic elves having to learn to differ between
>the *way* to similar letters of the tengwar.
Exactly. Tengwar is pretty, but it's so planned out that it actually looks
rather...confusing.

>
>The Dental column is based on one vertical line. The Alveolar
>column is based on a zig-zag line. The Velar column is based
>on two vertical lines. Now, according to your scheme /j/
>belongs to the Velar row and /S/ belongs to the Alveolar
>column. The only apparent break to these rules above are the
>letters for /f/ and /v/. These look like they belong to the
>Alveolar column, rather than the Labial column. /f/ and /v/
>should rather look something like

Well, my way of thinking is that they're not quite labial, since they
include the teeth as well. Buuuuut, they do look like they're a part of
the alveolar column as they are. But like I said, some of it was planning,
a lot of it was being random and going for what I liked.
>
>*if* one was to bring logic into the system. One could also
>imagine the "underscore" line |_| marking voice and those
>shorter dashes |-| marking ways of articulation, like
>having it in the middle would be nasal, and the "down"
>position would be fricative, etc. This would mean that /p/
>and /b/ would swap letters: | being /p/ and |_ /b/ for
>instance.
Quite true.  I never really thought of that :)
>
>
>I hope you don't mind my doodling with your toy alphabet.
>I'm in the process of creating conlangs for an online-rpg site
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> Would
>you mind if I used your alphabet as a base for that Elvish
>syllabary? The phonology and phonotax your alphabet is
>created for suits the Elvish ditos almost freakishly well.
Wow, i had little idea too :). I mainly created it so i could write
whatever in English "relatively" well. Of course it's not supposed to
represent English exactly :).

I don't mind at all if you use my alphabet as a base. Perhaps the ideas
you've presented to make it a bit more logical could be applied to yours?
Naturally, a little credit ("inspired by...") would be nice :). It's
really something for me to just fool around with and play with in class
(hence the title of this thread)
>
>
>A more cursive and slim style would look awsome I think.
Hmm...i agree. Perhaps something that resembles formal print style
devanagari? Or maybe brush work?
>


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