Re: visual languages

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.
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
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.

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.

M