Written forms (was: Moi, le Kou)

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From: DOUGLAS KOLLER <LAOKOU@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Saturday, January 13, 2001 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Written forms (was: Moi, le Kou (was: verbs = nouns?))


>Géarthnuns has a "print" and "cursive" form of its own alphabet. Shapes are
>close enough to Roman and Cyrillic forms that I can write with a speed
>comparable to English. Two or three "fonts" are out there as well. There is
>a calligraphic form which looks rather Fraktur-like, but since I've never
>used a Western-style calligraphic pen, I've only done the Lord's Prayer and
>an alphabet primer, outlining the forms in pencil and then filling them in
>with a flair pen. Amateur hour. I see this form, however, like Fraktur in
>its heyday, as the standard used in the majority of Géarthnuns newspapers
>and serious literary works.
Fraktur...<shudder>  No aspersion on you--it's beautiful, but it's such a
pain in the butt to read (in German anyway) because I get lost in a sea of
vertical strokes.  I did try to learn it calligraphy-wise but it's trickier
than the calligraphy alphabets that I do use semi-regularly.  (It's not too
hard to teach yourself--I did, plus a trimester of intro calligraphy in
middle school, during which I appalled the teacher by not using a ruler to
space everything methodically.)  Sounds fun.  :-)

YHL