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Re: A script puzzle

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Thursday, December 4, 2008, 20:03
Hallo!

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 03:15:17 -0500, Alex Fink wrote:

> 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?
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.
> 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.
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. ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf