Re: Non-linear full-2d writing (again)

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:52:29 -0500, Jefferson Wilson
<jeffwilson63@...> wrote:

>>> 1 2 3
>>> \|/
>>> 4-O-5
>>> /|\
>>> 6 7 8
>
> This shows a system made up of paired (2) connections.  "\" (link)
> connects to "1" and "O."  "O" only has one connection, to link.  Also in
> this scheme "2" cannot immediately link to "5" since it becomes
> indeterminate whether that also links "2" to "3" or "O."
Again, you're thinking in complicated and obfuscated mathematical jargon.
Look at it as a purely graphical device. Forget the specialized technical
meanings you have learned for words like "connection" and "link" and think
of it as you might if you were an ordinary, average schoolchild, learning
to write using that system. O is (non-technically) connected to eight
other objects, by means of the eight lines which each lead to one of them.

Most people do not conlang based on the axioms of information theory. I
don't see why we should be con-scripting based on the axioms of map
theory. If you're a loglanger, or potentially some other kind of
engelanger, they're admirable goals to be sure, but for the rank and file
they're somewhat lofty and obscure, and IMO ought to remain so, lest our
craft become nothing more than a science.




Paul

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