Re: Conscripts (was Re: Moi, le Kou)

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From: Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: Conscripts (was Re: Moi, le Kou)


>On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:38:22 +0900 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
>writes:
>> Wow!  I think the first alphabet that comes up on the page has a very
>> "carved" look to it; how did you do it?  :-)
>
>If you're talking about the big chart, i think that's just a relic of the
>processing that the picture went through on its way from word processor
>to web page.  I think it had to do with translating it into a picture and
>then resizing it.
Huh.  I must try word processing and resizing someday to see if I can get
that look.  =^)

>> >There's also an ideographic (actually morphemograph?) system,
>> created for
>> >my anthropology class the semester before this past one, found at
>> >http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/theszhes.gif
>
>> Neat!  Did you right that on computer paper?  =^)  (I'm looking at
>> the
>> holes...)  It looks very mysterious, like something you'd find
>> inscribed on
>> a tomb or cenotaph somewhere and have to decipher.
>
>Thanks!  Holes?  Do you mean the dots going down the columns, next to the
>column lines?  I think that was just pencil or pen or some other writing
>tool.  I believe that i wrote it on regular unholed printer paper.... ah
>hah, now i remember.  The lines and the dots were made on the computer.
>I layed-out a place for the passage to be written at the beginning of the
>project's write-up, and i made a chart, and put dots on each line so that
>the morphemographs would be all pretty much the same size, in a nice neat
>layout.  i think.
Yes, the dots.  I dunno why, I was thinking of the oldstyle printer paper
with the hole-punched strips at the side.  It worked out well, I think.

BTW, thanks for the aleph-writing lesson.  <smacking self on head>
Intellectually, I *know* (unless I'm badly mistaken again) Hebrew is written
right-to-left, but I always *forget* that when I'm trying to write the
thing.  Very helpful.  :-)  <much enlightened look>  D'you happen to know
where the broad/thin strokes come from?  They look quite lovely, but they
don't look quite calligraphic and I'm at a loss as to how they're produced,
unless it's a typeset-font thing.

YHL