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Re: An alphabet of faces?!

From:Muke Tever <muke@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 30, 2003, 13:12
From: "Rob Nierse" <rob.nierse@...>
>Christophe wrote: > >>" I think everyone one the list just *has* to check what's one of the most >>original writing systems I ever saw. It's a featural script, a bit like >>Korean, but instead of rather abstract shapes put together to form >>syllables, the Elkarîl writing system is based on a system of human >>*faces*. " > >I'm sure I've seen this before. It was accompanied by a story about >a woman that devised this script, the children that learned it faster than >an old style script and the 'face-script' took over the elaborate old one. >It was featural too, the eyebrows depicted the labials, the nose the nasals >etc. or something like that. >I forgot who made that script. Does anyone know?
That was the same site, but I dont think he'd developed the script fully at that time. *Muke! -- http://frath.net/

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