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Re: OT: Conorthography aesthetics (WAS: Re: Featural code based on ...

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 12:15
Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Andreas Johansson : > > > >g0miileg0's orthography isn't among the most aesthetically appealing I've > >seen, but beyond the use of "0" as a letter there's nothing much I actively > >dislike. Pete's system, OTOH, includes stuff like _euohfv_, which makes > French > >look downright stunning by comparison. > > I remark nobody mentioned Maggel yet :))) . Or do people find its > orthography actually beautiful? ;))))
Having not seen much actual text in Maggel, it's hard to offer much of a judgement, but from various single words you've cited on this list, my impression is that it's not exactly beautiful, but not exactly ugly either. This of the look on a page - when considered as an orthographic system, it's, depending on my mood, appealingly or appalingly atrocious. Andreas