Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people

--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Here's a hypothesis:  When a Chinese person sees
> something written in a
> conscript, they are going to assume it is hanzi they
> don't happen to
> know, written in some ultra-obscure calligraphic
> style!
Not necessarily though.  The Chinese (Japanese or
Korean), I definitely believe, can recognize that Thai
or Khmer or any of the Indian/MidEast scripts are not
hanzi/kanji/kanja.  Besides, as far as I know,
mainland Chinese use simplified versions of the
original hanzi characters (which Taiwanese still
maintain), whereas Japanese (and to a lesser degree,
Korean) make use of yet another form - somewhere in
between the original and simplified.  I personally
think it might be more difficult to differentiate
between Thai & Khmer scripts if written sloppily.

Matt33




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