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

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 02:03:35 -0700, B. Garcia <madyaas@...> wrote:

>Meaning if my little question on how to handle two verbs wasn't enough...
>
>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?
I suppose it's another script that analysis speech into vowels and
consonants, but as far as I know there's no word for this notion.

>Anyway, it's a fun neography not intended for anything really. It's
>not even a 1:1 code for the English alphabet either (it is it's own
>script)
>
>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.
>
>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!)
Sounds nice. I've also made a herbal script once, not a leaf script but a
tree script, but it's rather something like morse code:

http://machhezan.tripod.com/other_samples/oenin.jpg

g_0ry@_^s:
j. 'mach' wust