Re: introduction...

On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 02:27 , Talpas Tim wrote:

> # Do you mean physically higher, e.g. fellow on the roof is "higher" than
> # the fella standing next to the fireplace on the ground floor?  Or
> status,
> # or something else entirely?  What a neat concept, whichever way.  :-)
>
> No... in respect to 1st 2nd 3rd person. 2 being higher than 1. 3 being
> higher
> than two.. etc.
>
Oh, I see!  I should've figured that out from Matthew Pearson's insightful
diagram, actually.  Duh.  <bonking self on head>  I do apologize; it's end
of the quarter for me at grad school and writing papers obviously has
deleterious effects on my brain.

> # Great website.  :-)  I especially enjoy the script; were there any
> # particular influences or inspirations you could share?  I am also
> curious
> # as to the romanization of the vowels: some use the diaresis while others
> # take the circumflex; any particular reason?  (I also confess some of
> your
>
> The script origionally started as an attempt to vaguely represent tounge
> position in the mouth for each sound, using only a few straight lines.
>
I thought it might be something like that.  :-)  It's quite pretty.

> Hand written, it was all smushed together so that words formed a
> contiguous
> block. But since i dont know how to actually create fonts, my initial
> attempt at
> representing the true script with a series of images made it look too much
> like devanagari. So I made them seperate. Perhaps if I get a scanner, or
> time draw a few words in photoshop, i'll put them up on the website
> so one can see the evolution of the script.
>
I'd like to see that.  :-)

> I use a, o, and u with diaresis to indicate the front counterpart of
> the back vowels, and i and e with circumflex to indicate the back
> counterpart
> of front vowels. I would have used diaresis on all, but I just don't like
> the
> way i with diaresis looks. :)  And of course e had to get circumflex too,
> for some semblance of continuity.
<laugh>  Yeah...I'm  not too fond of i-diaresis either.  Gotcha.

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