Re: RFC: A writing system for Eretas

taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> wrote:

> Hehe, Mongolian is pretty alright, but manchu is prettier.
I agree, but one thing that I prefer about Mongolian over
Manchu is that it's less angular.

> I have a "manchified" script, see
> http://taliesin.nvg.org/taruven/sketches/cursive.html
Nice!

> as well, but in most cases I do not rely solely on
> mirroring to increase the number of shapes, often the
> mirrored version has an extra hook or two.
The mirroring came in my script primarily because I wanted
to relate the sounds of the fricatives to the stops. I had
a seperate set of symbols for the fricatives in the
beginning, but I decided to get rid of them because they
made the script feel unorthogonal.

> There is a bothersome optic effect there. See the
> 's'-part? It looks like the stem (the | ) is further to
> the right than the other stems. This might not be
> visible in larger amounts of text though.
I noticed that myself. Buy you're right - on longer pieces
of text it does indeed disappear. That, and the stem is
a bit longer than it would normally be - the mode used is
a slightly decorative one, hence the elaborate tails.

I've translated the t-shirt text and I'm going to write it
out this evening. It should be a better example.