Re: Introduction, and a Couple Questions

Hi!

Parker Glynn-Adey writes:
>...
> Wow, Tyl Sjok looks incredibly interesting, and it would seem you've already
> developed some of the ideas I had planned to use in my language. I'm going
> to need to read over your various writings about it. Taking as example Tyl
> Sjok, and Rikchik, I think that to do the two dimensional stuff I'm
> interested in, I'll probably have to use PostScript. This is entirely
> do-able though.
Unfortunately, the 200 something basic shapes Tyl Sjok writing would
need are not completed.  But it's enough to get the idea, I'm sure, I
think I finished some 100 shapes or so.

I don't know whether I wrote that down anywhere: in handwriting, only
the semantic parts would be written (unless for names), while in print
when machines do it, the semantic and the phonetic parts are both
printed.  Writing the phonetic part of Tyl Sjok by hand seems quite
tedious, actually, and the design goal was fast reading, not fast
writing, in the hope that a single text is written once, but read many
times.

The lexicon of Tyl Sjok is designed so that a look-up is unique for
both phonetic and semantic parts (except for names, of course), so
that computers can easily add the missing part.

Some people have combined this and produced a semantic/phonetic
writing.  E.g.:

http://tinyurl.com/3y5dzb

I should add that I do not agree with all the things the author says
and the grammar does not seem to be fully usable, but the
'Lautbildschrift' is still a very nice idea, I think.

**Henrik