Re: Literacy in conscripts?

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Patrick Dunn wrote:

> I can read and write Hatasoe script as quickly as Latin. script This is
> something of an accomplishment, actually, since a good bit of Hatasoe
> script is ideographic which means along with the syllabic and alphabet
> characters I've memorized upwards of forty other symbols.  I had no
> difficulty doing this, actually.
Ideographic scripts aren't much more difficult to learn than alphabetic
scripts, at least in my experience. But I've never attempted to
learn Mayan... I have had equal ease in learning and reading in all
my finished conscripts - and learning Devanagari wasn't any more
difficult, either. That goes for reading and writing both. It's not
the script, but the spelling, that gave me grief when trying to learn
Tibetan - I never was sure of the right pronounciation.

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