Re: Virama
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 29, 2000, 0:41 |
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>I just had a look at it... and I love it!! What about having the
>diacritic that's common to <ey> <oy> <iw> (the big squiggly mark on
>the right) look exactly the same. There's no reason to differentiate
>the one for <iw> from the other two - except perhaps for historical
>reasons.
>
>-kristian- 8)
Hmm, good idea. Perhaps the iw variation could be a very old version that
is not used anymore, which imparts a natrualness ;). Anyway I like it too.
I think it looks better than the older system, and it looks much more
related to other indic scripts of the area. It also looks rather nice when
I write it out using my calligraphy pen.
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