Re: A conlang idea rolling around in my head

--- jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> Gary Shannon scripsit:
>
> > Has anyone else worked on any pictographic
> conlangs
> > that anyone knows of?
>
> You might be interested in Rikchik sign language,
> which is spoken by
> tentacled aliens and has a written form consisting
> of stylized pictures
> of the tentacles.  See
> http://suberic.net/~dmm/rikchik/rikchik.html .
>
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Very interesting!  I wonder, though, why these aliens
did not incorporate motion into their language.
American Sign Language uses a lot of motion in its
signs, rather than single fixed "shapes".  Of course,
expressing motion on paper is bit difficult. :)

BTW: I forgot to mention that what inspired my first
pictographic conlang was an article in Popular Science
in the early 1960's on Bliss Symbolics.