Re: Scripting was Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings

Peter Clark wrote:
>--- Stephen Mulraney <ataltanie@...> wrote:
> > But what I really want is a 'combinatoric'
> > script like JRRT's tengwar - one which is based on a recurring
> > graphical
> > motif - e.g. stems and loops. But as much as I stretch my brains, I
> > can't
> > quite imagine one that would look as nice as the tengwar. ;(
>
>    It's your decision, of course, but I would recommend against a
>combinatoric script, as it violates a key principle for clear and
>easy-to-read scripts: maximum distinction. As one wise sage once
>quipped, the elves must have suffered terribly from dyslexia.
Alternatively, they may've been immune to it! Well, one of the bright spots
in non-human fantasy conculturing is that you can make unmotivated ad hoc
exceptions like that, so I wonder why I'm not doing it ...

(Answer to rhetorical question: 'Cos I have a technocrat brain that likes
patterns and cause-and-effect.)

[snip]
>    <rant>I personally find Cyrillic rather difficult at times,
>especially if the typesetting is poor. The letters for sh, shch, ts, i,
>p, and n can all run together if placed too close to each other. And
>don't get me started on handwriting! I forget which, but there is a
>Russian word that when written cursively is little more that "UUUUUUUU"
>or something like that (as best as I can represent handwriting in ASCII
>text).</rant>
In my mother's handwriting the word "aluminium" looks like "aluuuuuuu" with
a coupla dots above the u's. And my signature tends to degenerate at the
end, so that the final "sson" tends more resemble "no-" ...

                                                           Andreas


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