Re: what makes a con-script a Con-Script?

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:54:20 EDT, David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
> All I know is that when I see something I've identified
> as a character show in different words once, twice in a row,
> three times in a row, four times in a row, five times in a row,
> six times in a row, seven times in a row, eight times and a row,
> *and* nine times in a row, it simply strikes me as highly unlikely
> that the script is recording anything real.   [Not that a letter *couldn't*
> do that and stand for a real language, but I somehow doubt
> that Luigi Serafini was a good enough conlanger to do that.]
Hmm... If you take Latin as an example, it could already happen: u and i in Latin
have both consonantal and vocalic values (so something like /wuwuwu/ would
write |uuuuuu|), and indeed numeric ones as well (|iiiiiiiii| could represent
"9", though in that case |ix| would be likelier).


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