Re: Thought and Language
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 17, 1998, 18:37 |
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Daniel Baisden wrote:
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> Arabic no doubt is a beautiful language to hear. But the script to me is far
> from it.
Well, one man's rubish is another man's treasure, I guess. I've always
felt that the Arabic script was the most beautiful script I've ever
seen. All those beautiful curves, I don't think there are any sharp
angles in it, are there? That's what I don't like about letters like
"k", "A", "L", "N", "M", etc. in English - to many angles. On the other
hand, a script with *only* sharp angles (e.g., runes) doesn't look that
bad to me (but no competition to the curvy arabic script).
On a related note, has anyone here invented a flowing script like Arabic
or our cursive, where all the letters are joined? I find that very hard
to invent, and have given up several times.
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