Re: CHAT: ConScripts

On 8/2/07, John Crowe <johnxcrowe@...> wrote:
> Since I'm new here every time I post I feel like I am obligated to search
> through the archives to see if I'm really saying anything new. After looking
> at the first 50 hits, I decided that I will not be doing that anymore.
> Actually, I'm quite sure there was a thread on conscripts a few weeks ago,
> but I didn't follow it.
This list has been around for quite a long time, so topics do get
repeated. I think that's ok. It's always interesting to see new
perspectives and ideas on old topics. (IMO.)

>
> I was wondering if online dictionaries had our little conlanging neologisms
> in them.  I was a bit surprised that one dictionary had 'conscript' but not
> 'conlang', until I read:
>
> ...: a conscripted person (as a military recruit)
>
I keep trying to draft people into my conlang's army, but they never
show up for training.

> Oh well.
>
> We should have a most creative writing system contest. We need more
> non-linear scripts (how many interpretations of that are there?). (although
> it seems that anything human readable cannot escape being somehow
> transformable into a sequential...) I remember seeing this conlang with ~30?
> different conscripts, all of them very exotic. Unfortunately, I can't find
> it anymore.
I stink at creating writing systems, but I've just started working on
one for my newest language. It's just going to be a boring, ordinary
alphabet. I just hope to make something that's pretty (to me).

Mia.

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