> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 21:05:57 +0100, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
> wrote:
>
>>Hallo!
>>
>>On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:15:17 -0500, Alex Fink wrote:
> [...]
>>>
http://000024.org/conlang/scriptpuzzle.pdf
> [...]
>>It reminds me a bit of Maimieux's Pasigraphie, (which doesn't
>>use digits, but a small set of basic symbols that look more
>>like digits than letters, with diacritics), from the overall
>>visual appearance, but that isn't quite the thing, I guess.
>
> I can't google up much good information about Maimieux's pasigraphie.
> What's it like?
>
>>> Hints (perhaps): I didn't feel like making this read RtL as arguably it
>>> should have, and I've also omitted a bunch of superscript circles to
>>> reduce
>>> clutter. [...]
>>
>>Hmmmm - lots of diacritics including lots of superscript circles,
>>and written right to left? That sounds a lot like Arabic, but
>>your script doesn't resemble that much.
>
> Not Arabic, no, but you're within striking distance: the script in
> question,
> and those features in particular, were definitely formed under Arabic
> influence.
>
> Alex