Re: An alphabet of faces?!

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!
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