Re: A script puzzle

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.

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