Re: Literacy in conscripts?

At 07:19 -0500 23.1.2000, The Gray Wizard wrote:
>
>> From: Barry Garcia
>>
>> I was writing some things out in the Saalangal script (to be officially
>> named), and i got to wondering, for those of you who have constructed
>> scripts to go with your languages, how literate are you in writing that
>> script?
>>
>> With me, It took me only a few days of practice to really get most of the
>> Tilon Nevo (which is under a revision) script memorized. I could write out
>> a lot of stuff in the script, but not really be able to read it all that
>> well.
>
>Interesting.  I've had the very same experience.  I've been inventing
>scripts for years and have never had any difficulty learning to write with
>them. Oftentimes in a matter of hours.  Even when they undergo constant and
>radical modifications, my brain/hands seem to master the changes rapidly.
>But reading has always been another matter.  It takes me much, much longer
>to get anywhere near reading competency.  Not sure why that is!
>
>David
It's the same with me and my own conscripts.  OTOH I rarely have problems
with new natscripts either.  The only problem I ever had with learning to
decode a new script was with Sanskrit written in Devanagari, and the
problem was to divide the string into words rather than identifying the
characters.


/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson  <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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