Re: beautiful scripts

>From: Amber Adams <amber@...>
>Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:01:48 -0400
>
> > By the way, my half-hearted attempt at my conlang
> > (Vya:a:h) has left me stumped.  The script appears a
> > pseudo-Khmer script written in form of Hangul, but
> > also incorporates the Chinese/Japanes system of
> > pictograms for up to the 500 most common concepts.
> > I'm stumped, however, with how to keep the
> > "3-to-an-inverted-triangle-set" concept I want,
>
>I had a thought about this, my inspiration came from the way that Chinese
>characters seem to cram in increasingly complicated radicals into the same
>space.  Why don't you just squish the characters down?
>
>For example, a basic word might just use three simple symbols, arranged in
>an inverted triangle.  However, the nice thing about inverted triangles is
>that you can make a larger inverted triangle out of three smaller ones.
>So what if in the case of a word using 9 symbols, you wrote three triangles
>in the same pattern as the basic word, only each one was much smaller,
>squashed into the space meant for a single character?  That would mean that
>some of your words would be much "denser" than others (kind of like the
>look
>of various Chinese characters on a page) but you would preserve the
>look of one triangle for one character.
Which, of course, means that just like in Chinese those "denser" characters
become illegible blobs with a bad printer or dirty typeface.  Sometimes
reading my church bulitin can be SO intriguing . . . here a blob there a
blob everywhere a blob blob eieio.  Same thing holds true for the
interoffice memos at work.  Ghastly!  But then there's just not much you can
hope for with a small font and a 30+ stroke character.

Adam


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