Re: Written forms (was: Moi, le Kou)

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From: Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Saturday, January 13, 2001 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Written forms (was: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?))


>(Delurk again)
>Rixuli has a printed script that looks as if it evolved out of a cursive
>one, sort of in the style of formal Arabic scripts.  It's all loops and
>hooks and easy vertical lines connected by a continuing underline,
>proportioned such that it resembles my handwriting to a certain degree.  I
:-)  Whereas mine's connected by a continuing *vertical* line, on the theory
(from _The Korean Alphabet_) that it's easier for people who write with a
brush.

>everyday use.  ( My handwriting's a horror, a sort of molten broken cursive
>thing where individual letters depend on others for shape - my lower-case
>"r"s are like the outlines of hills or horizontal extensions to the tops of
>tall letters, and i've been accused of drawing "f" like an integral sign.
>Words like 'everywhere' look like wavy horizontals with angry loopy
>ascenders and descenders.  My lowercase d once had a long flourish to the
>right that's turned into a wave in the ascender; it hovers over the bowl
>like the arch of a compound bow.)
How poetic a description!  Devise a logo-/ideograph system based on your
handwriting, maybe?  :-)

YHL