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

From:J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 12:38
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:44:00 -0400, J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
wrote:

>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
Appearently, this link doesn't work, but: http://machhezan.tripod.com/phonological_calligraphic/id4.html g_0ry@_^s: j. 'mach' wust