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Re: Curvey Scripts

From:lucasso <lucasso@...>
Date:Sunday, December 20, 1998, 0:00
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Od: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Do: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Data: 18 grudnia 1998 06:47
Temat: Curvey Scripts


>Keenan wrote: >>Nik Taylor wrote: >>> > >>>Well, one man's rubish is another man's treasure, I guess. I've >>>always felt that the Arabic script was the most beautiful script >>>I've ever seen. All those beautiful curves, I don't think there >>>are any sharp angles in it, are there? That's what I don't like >>>about letters like "k", "A", "L", "N", "M", etc. in English - to >>>many angles. On the other hand, a script with *only* sharp >>>angles (e.g., runes) doesn't look that bad to me (but no >>>competition to the curvy arabic script). > >Yes, the Arabic script is beuatiful. But with regards to curvy >scripts, I have always thought that the Javanese script was more >beautiful than Arabic. In fact, the Javanese script is even more >curvier than Arabic. You'll probably like the Javanese script even >more if you had the chance to see it. > >I'm also not particularly fond of a script that connects _all_ the >letters. The Javanese script doesn't do this. But it does connect >_some_ letters (conjunct consonants) and subsrcipts in a vertical >direction while the rest of the letters are written horizontally. >
arabic is really nice, but i also like those southern indian scripts (usi= ng them is sometimes so strange - maybe it explains indian analphabetism ;) = ) the only thing i do not like in indian script is writing vowels before consonant when we say it after it (like devanagari short 'i')... another beautiful script is chinese (no comments :) ) and hebrew becouse of its very unified(?) shapes...
>This is indeed what the Javanese script does. Each letter always >starts with an upstroke and ends with a down stroke. Between these >two strokes are numerous curves in various directions. I have >followed this model for the Boreanesian script with beautiful >results, IMHO. >
incredible! i've never heard about javanese script before! can you enligh= t me (or show me web direction where i can find something 'bout) -- lucasso@friko6.onet.pl http://www.lucasso.topnet.pl (http://friko6.onet.pl/wa/lucasso)