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Re: I need an artist ::: and articles

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Monday, January 18, 1999, 22:56
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:35:13 -0500 "David G. Durand" <dgd@...>
writes:
>...... > >I'd recommend developing your own script, as it's so much fun. You >could >start (as many of us did) by making an assignment of your phonology to >Tolkien's Tengwar -- Computer fonts are readily available, and it was >designed to be targetable to many phonologies. I don't personally >agree >with the opinion that it's not visually distinctive enought to be a >possible real script. (That's an old Conlang argument/topic). > >.......
My first conscript/conlang, ool-Nuziiferoi, which i made with my brother about 3 and a half years ago, had similar origins. The phonology was based loosely on my brother's amateur phonetic code for representing English with all the diphthongs and stuff plus all the sounds from other languages we could think of, like /G/ and /x/. The orthography was based on Tengwar, though. We started out with a vertical line (i think it's called a luva in Tengwar), and then added circles to the ends of it, and then circles to the circles. It wasn't always that phonetically accurate, though. For instance, the second circle usually represented an H in English. So for instance, a S with an extra circle = SH. We also mixed ourselves up by putting in unintentional irregularities. Instead of adding another circle to K for /x/, we added a line - and G didn't even have a circle, it was an angle like |/ . What should have been KH was used for N, and what should have been GH (if G had been a vertical-flip of K) was really M. You can see a short example of it on the Rokbeigalmki homepage, in the different alphabets section. it's the first one. The vowels were pretty much totally random, we just scribbled on a looseleaf paper until we found something that looked good. Ever since then i've thought of the Greek omega as an "umega", because that's what the /u/ ended up looking like. The ool-Nuziiferoi eventually became more cursive and mutated, until Rokbeigalmki started and i adopted the alphabet in its mutated form, whose primary distinction is the use of hooks instead of full circles in the consonants. -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]