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Re: A script puzzle

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 8:43
Is it supposed to be a lot of digits with diacritics?
It looks lake an evil cousin of Paleotype if you ask me!

Alex Fink skrev:
> Something I recently read in Mikael Parkvall's _Limits of Language_ (great > linguisticsy resource, btw) gave me an idea for a re-envisioning of a > certain script which would serve reasonably as a code for English. I've > wasted the last two and a half hours writing and coaxing LaTeX into > producing the following sample: > http://000024.org/conlang/scriptpuzzle.pdf > > (a) Decode this. > (b) Which natscript was the template? > > 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. My English lect is rhotic, maximally low back vowel merging, etc > etc. > > Alex >