Re: And if that weren't enough...

B. Garcia scripsit:

> I just whipped up a new little fun neography called "leaf". Why leaf?
> Well because the consonants are all leaf shapes (various forms...
> lobed and unlobed). "holes" indicate vowels. So i guess it's like an
> abugida?
As long as there is one vowel which is expressed by the absence of
holes (typically /a/, but not necessarily) then yes.  If there is a
way of marking consonants without a following vowel (a virama, in
Skt/Unicode terms), so much the better, but several undoubted abugidas
don't have one.

> Stylistically the leaves can be turned and angled so they look like
> they're blowing on a breeze. A sentence could look something like a
> mass of leaves caught in the wind. Punctuation is by way of conifer
> leaves.
Sounds very cool.

> Holes can be moved around for esthetics, to make it look more
> caterpillar chewed than simply full of holes. There's even a null
> consonant for vowels (since you can't have holes in a nonexistent
> leaf!)
Some abugidas use that strategy.

--
John Cowan  jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
I must confess that I have very little notion of what [s. 4 of the British
Trade Marks Act, 1938] is intended to convey, and particularly the sentence
of 253 words, as I make them, which constitutes sub-section 1.  I doubt if
the entire statute book could be successfully searched for a sentence of
equal length which is of more fuliginous obscurity. --MacKinnon LJ, 1940