Re: conlang t-shirt

Paul Bennett wrote:

> http://www.rhialto.easynet.co.uk/conlang/tee/tee.htm
> <<<<<<
>
> Ok.  Very cool and groovy scripts, guys, I'm impressed!
>
> Is there a description somewhere of how the Bitha script works?  The gif is a
> bit tiny to make it out properly, but it appears to be a mixed syntactographic
> (what's the word for graphically indicating syntactic elements, anyway?) and
> phonetic system?
>
That description is exactly right, but no, there isn't a description anywhere yet,
but I'll try to explain it here. Each large circle represents a word, the smaller
circles are suffixes/prefixes/infixes. The |\ symbol and the /| symbol declare the
entire glyph as a word, the half circle with the line down the middle is the
symbol for a suffix, and the circle with two swishes is an infix. Then all the
symbols with lines hitting the large base circle are consonants, the ones attached
to the base circle by little circles are vowels. Then I connected the parts of the
subject noun phrase, verb phrase and object noun phrase. Does that make sense to
anyone besides me? I'm working on a webpage to explain it, I'll let you know when
I get it done...


Joe