Re: visual languages

Hallo!

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 02:05:42 -0500,
Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> wrote:

> Estel Telcontar wrote:
>
> >I see that people are talking about visual languages, and looking for
> >info.  I don't think Nokta Kanto's Harpelan has been mentioned yet;
> >it's a neat visual conlang; I believe the website address is:
> >
> >www.geocities.com/noktakanto
>
> I've seen that a few times before, and it is cool. Sort of looks like a
> tree made of Kanji. Sort of.
Yes, this captures the look of the script quite well.  A brilliant idea!
Seems difficult to read, though.

> Timothy Ingen Housz's "Elephant's Memory" has a different approach that
> varies both direction and size of characters.
> http://www.khm.de/~timot/PageElephant.html
Looks somewhat kindergarten-ish, if you ask me.

> A less transparently 'visual' one, but also non-linear, is Aaron Ruimy's
> han-taj-tUl-hUt:
> http://conlangstudio.tripod.com/
> But all that exists for that is a Babel text; I can't find any grammatical
> info.
This looks very technoid, like something displayed on the bridge
of an alien spaceship from Star Trek.  Many of the glyphs are
vaguely anthropomorphic, with a big "head", two "arms" and two "legs".

It is a pity that we don't know anything more of it.

> And on the other hand, the coolest *phonetic* writing system in the history
> of time (in my humble opinion) is Mark Rosenfelder's Elkaril:
> http://www.zompist.com/elkwrite.htm
> Which was mentioned here -- I can't remember by whom -- a few months ago.
The cutest writing system I have ever seen!  The idea of using facial
features to represent phonemic features gives testimony of the genius
at work here.

Greetings,

Jörg.

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