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Re: visual languages

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Thursday, December 4, 2003, 20:00
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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