Re: Vowel "colors", was "colored scripts" etc.

On 20 Jan, Danny Wier wrote:

> I've considered using the color wheel to express vowel qualities. Now
colors
> are expressed in three dimensions: hue, saturation and luminance.
<snip fascinating details>

    I think it's a fantastic idea! Go for it!
However, users of the lang would all have to be
visually-artistically sensitive ( or else
belonging to one of the cephalopod species,
known for communicating via subtle color
changes on their bodies!  ;-)   )
    In the same way of thinking, why not extend
the idea to _sound_? Not like the old
"sol re sol", but more subtle, using, perhaps,
microtones for one dimension, (or perhaps the "Western"
notes for "vowels" and microtones in between for
"consonants"), timbres or types of instrument for another, etc.
(Naturally, trumpets get the best grammatical features!  ;-)   )
"Words" could be chords ("read" from low sound to high or the reverse)
and understood simultaneously, the way chords are heard in music,
instead of as a sequence of "musical-phonemes"!
    Too bad I don't have the time to try it. Maybe I'll keep it in mind
for that mythical "rainy day" (It actually has been raining quite a bit here
lately, but I seem to have even more [non-conlanging] things to take care of
than on dry days! :-P  )

Dan Sulani
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likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.

A word is an awesome thing.

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